Harris did with Fox News what Trump can't do anywhere: Handle tough questions
@uspolitics It took great courage and supreme confidence to walk into a lion's den, facing prejudice and disrespect by #bretbaier, and come out unscathed like #Harris. That was incredible, and what a display of leadership. She must have moved a few thousand voters’ minds about her. They will now vote for her. 👏👍
Unscathed? She is getting roundly hauled over the coals today with criticism from the left and the right from that performance.
In fact, the performance is seen as such a disaster that even Trump supporters are begging people to watch the interview in full. It was that damaging.
@volkris @uspolitics W/ all due respect, here are 3 articles on interview #harris did. She has courage & leadership that the m’ker demented #Trump never did, never does & never will. Unscathed she came out of a biased & disrespectful #Baier. Shameful!
Want to troll me? Fine! Troll me w/ articles, don’t troll me with w/ your opinion.
P.S. Ever enter a lion’s den b/4? I did many times w/ my job.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5155198/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview-brett-baier
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/kamala-harris-fox-news-interview/index.html
I watched the interview directly, so if the articles describe something different from what I saw with my own eyes, well, there's a good reason journalism has lost so much legitimacy lately.
But I will say, one of the weak parts of Harris's interview was her frequent dodgy by trying to talk about Trump when the question was about her.
So same thing here.
It's exactly why we criticize whataboutism.
Yes, Trump is awful, but we're talking about Harris here, not Trump. And Baier kept trying to get her to talk about her own points of view, again, not about Trump, but she kept going back to whatabout Trump?
She came across as incredibly weak and incompetent and unable to lay out her own ideas, always having to dodge to other things... like Trump.
People keep talking about that as a lion's den, but the questions Baier was asking, that she refused to answer, seemed like a great opportunity for her to connect with the audience.
She failed to do so, and that's on her.
@normalguy The thing is, I work in academia, and I and so many of my colleagues are completely frustrated with MSM misreporting things in our various areas of expertise.
Once you see MSM saying things that you know to be false because it's what you do for a living, well you start to see why so many fellow Americans have lost all faith in that reporting. More and more MSM publishes articles that you know to be false because they're saying things that run counter to your own area of professional expertise.
So yeah, the fact that you publish some articles from outlets that we know to be unreliable doesn't really say anything.
Anyway, in this case I don't support any candidate. I emphatically blame both major parties for nominating candidates that are not worth supporting. I absolutely say that we need to hold the two major parties accountable for their failure to nominate someone worth voting for.
The Democrats are a particular disappointment because they skipped the democratic process that might have resulted in a better candidate, one I would have wanted to support.
Republicans are just lost in this cycle. They didn't want to win. They just wanted to fight, and that's obnoxious, and they deserve to lose. But the Democratic party could have nominated someone worth voting for.
But instead we got this terrible selection without democratic input.
@volkris @uspolitics You saw what you saw. I saw what I saw. You had your opinion. I had mine and 3 articles. MSM backs up my opinion. Yours on your own. So, let’s leave it at that b/c if you support one candidate, you are biased by that person. And I do the same. The differences are:
1. I have articles, and you don’t.
2. I entered lion’s den many times so I know how challenging and intimidated it was. You probably didn’t (b/c you ignore my question).
Good discussion!