Media Conveniently Trots Out Woman/Sexism Cards to Ward Off Kamala’s Critics in Advance
“A woman at the top of the ticket will take slings and arrows that male candidate won’t. That’s just a fact, and we know it.”
News of President Joe Biden’s Sunday announcement that he was withdrawing from the presidential race – as well as his secondary statement that he was endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement – has kicked the media fangirling for Harris into high gear.
Predictably, the sexism, woman, and race cards are already being played in an effort to blunt legitimate criticisms from Harris’ many critics, including of course the Trump campaign, which has already come out with some hard-hitting ads targeting Harris specifically for what she knew about Biden’s cognitive health.
On CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” for instance, co-moderators Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan both fretted over how Harris would be attacked by Donald Trump and Republicans, citing his campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Brennan even went so far as to proclaim without evidence that Harris would be subjected to attacks that males weren’t because “That’s just a fact”:
O’Donnell: “I wonder, though, how worried the campaign is. Donald Trump ran against a woman, Hillary Clinton, in 2016. It was personal. He called her nasty, her called her a lot of other words. I wonder whether those same types of attacks would work in 2024? There will be a different dynamic running against a black woman.”
Brennan: “There last time we saw a woman at the top of the ticket, Hillary Clinton, there was quite a lot running against Donald Trump — there were quite a lot of attacks against her. And there is a mind towards what is the lesson from then, how do we apply it now?”
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Brennan: “I can only imagine that and a woman at the top of the ticket will take slings and arrows that a male candidate won’t. That’s just the facts and we know it. So, they’re looking at the vice presidential candidate carefully.”
Watch:
CBS’s Norah O’Donnell: “Donald Trump ran against a woman, Hillary Clinton, in 2016. It was personal. He called her nasty, her called her a lot of other words. I wonder whether those same types of attacks would work in 2024? There will be a different dynamic running against a… pic.twitter.com/9a3MSs0OR1
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 22, 2024
CBS News saw sexism yesterday in criticism of Kamala Harris, arguing the criticisms of Harris (on policy) are “rough and tumble” and are going to become “very, very personal”.
They added she “will take slings and arrows that a male candidate won’t” and “that’s just the facts and… pic.twitter.com/ECJ6ASsIVG
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 22, 2024
The New York Times did their part as well, conveniently rounding up a handful of female Democrat rank-and-file voters and activists who were concerned Harris would be held back due to sexism:
“Women are angrier, and that could be motivating,” said Karen Crowley, 64, an independent voter and retired nurse in Concord, N.H., who would not vote for Mr. Trump, did not feel like she could support Mr. Biden and now planned to back Ms. Harris.
Among the motivations Ms. Crowley cited were the demise of Roe v. Wade and comments and actions by Mr. Trump that many women see as sexist and misogynistic. “A woman president might be more possible now,” she said.
But for female voters and activists eager to break that elusive glass ceiling, there was also fear that sexism would remain difficult for Ms. Harris to overcome.
“It’s a patriarchy out there,” Ms. Crowley said. “She’s smart and she’s a prosecutor, but there are a lot of old white men who will want to stop her. The only thing wrong with her is that she’s a woman.”
Left out of all this breathless reporting about poor Kamala supposedly having to fend off “sexist” attacks are troubling numbers for her dating back to her failed 2019 run that are at odds with the narrative that Harris has an uphill climb because of those stereotypical knuckle-dragging white conservative males we keep hearing about.
A friendly reminder via a @LegInsurrection post I wrote at the time that in August 2019, Kamala's poll numbers among black & female Dems had completely cratered, & she never recovered. Have their opinions changed in four years? We'll find out soon enough. https://t.co/yntDey61VF
— Sister Toldjah 💙 (@sistertoldjah) July 21, 2024
Harris’ approval ratings at times as Vice President have also shown her polling lower than Joe Biden among black voters, such as this one from USA TODAY/Suffolk University in January:
But the findings reveal difficulties she herself has with the Democratic base. She gets lower job approval ratings than Biden among Black voters, 56% compared with 68%. She lags Biden among voters younger than 35, too, at 27% compared with 32%.
Of course, a lot can change in six months – and it definitely has – but the fact remains that Harris has had a rocky road when it comes to earning overwhelming support from core Democratic constituencies. Remember, even a small drop in percentage points among these groups in November could mean the difference for her between victory and defeat in battleground states.
Couple that with the rise in support among black male voters for Trump, and you’ve got a potential recipe for disaster for the Harris campaign on Election Day.
And that rocky road I mentioned has had little to nothing to do with Harris’ gender or race and everything to do with her ability – or lack thereof – to perform the tasks she’s been given, as evidenced for example by her disastrous handling of the border crisis. She’s just not very good at what she does, and it shows.
Though the woman/sexism/racism cards are going to loom large over this presidential race from now until November, rest assured that ultimately, Kamala Harris’ worst enemy will always be… Kamala Harris.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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Hate stuff like this, as it doesn’t do women any favors. SOS with these people. It never ends.
It’s not supposed to do “women” any favors, why would you expect that? It’s supposed to do “her” a favor, and if you pay a price, that is fine with her.
Hours after Biden dropped out The Atlantic published an article gently promoting Harris. Not surprising in the least.
The image header depicted Kamala surrounded by a white Aura of Grace. Pretty quick on the draw for that.
Image: https://pic8.co/sh/eFgZm8.jpg
She deserves the same compassion and respect the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) that they gave Sarah Palin.
I agree.
Additionally, I never heard anyone say that Biden and all the other democrat party men running for president in 2019/2020 were racist, sexist, or any other “ist” bullcrap.
But now that Joe is replaced by the Hoe, who by the way NEVER earned a single delegate in 2020 or this round, any effort to expose Harris’ extreme leftist stance is an attack on women.
Well, if Kamala can’t stand the heat of a political campaign, she hasn’t been vetted properly.
I don’t care who the nominee is for any party, I refuse to be forced into voting for someone with a vagina, just because she has a vagina.
Especially one who has run off nearly her entire staff as VP. That woman is a bitch who does not play nice.
Actually, you did hear one Dem candidate say it. They dropped out before garnering a single delegate, though.
If she could stand on her own merits she’d not need this stuff.
She checked off all the boxes. That ought to count for something. When you stop to think about it, there is great merit in checking off boxes which need to be checked.
I’ve been taught that it’s all that matters, and I assume accordingly. I also don’t give a shit about those who think that way and wouldn’t lift a finger to save them, and don’t.
That’s a pretty good impression of the vice prostitute
I heard she is much better suited to kneel, not stand on her own merits. Even Willie Brown has recently “endorsed” her. He knows all about her skills.
In fact, she has developed no new skills despite all her years in leftist politics. She’s simply expanded her number of “regulars,” going from Willie Brown’s Ho to Democrat regime Ho.
I enjoy seeing the downvotes from the anonymous serial “thumbs down” clown.
I wrote what I said. I meant what I said, and I don’t give a flying fuck whether the serial dork flies through with their downvote.
I am proud of my downvotes.
Eight years ago Trump was running against a spiteful witch with a drinking problem.
Now — assuming things go as they seem — he would be running against a brainless ditz with a drinking problem.
The fact they both have uteri is purely coincidental.
Oh, she’s also a spiteful witch, if her staff is to be believed.
She has to lose the nervous laugh, and also say something intelligent.
Not to worry. The regime media will be universally praising every word salad as profound—a real life imitation of Peter Sellers’ character in Being There.
Yeah, but they already did that (kinda) with Biden. She’ll have get her own stick, errr, shtick.
You’re asking way too much
When dealing with Biden’s obvious mental deficiencies the media played along and pretended he was just fine. Now they’re dealing with Kamala Harris and are treating her the same way pretending she was picked for her great intelligence and leadership abilities while ignoring the obvious. Do not even think about the obvious.
I just can’t wait to experience the future unburdened by what has been.
don’t forget about the significance of the passage of time.
Perhaps we should think about a Venn diagram depicting the overlap of the significance of time and the future, and consider that space to represent the burden of what has been.
However, we can rest assured that in the event that Kamala becomes president, Congress and all of the various nations will treat her with utmost respect as they have treated all male presidents.
Basically, if you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen.
Careful. JR will suddenly arrive and accuse you of sexism, with the added flavor of racism because the “Asian Indian” is (insert whisper here) “black!”
Shhh! That’s supposed to be a secret.
Sounds like an interesting idea for a TV series. Asian Indian is the New Black
As long as the star wears a multi colored jacket similar to the one Camel Toe bought as the media hens clucked over her purchase during the campaign.
The first episode will be called The Ho and the amazing Technicolor Dream Coat.
The left now knows what a ‘woman’ is?
Trump should challenge her to take a gynecognitive test.
Obama: fool me once, shame on you.
Biden: fool me twice, shame on me.
Harris: you must be joking.
lie!
men take slings and arrows too
its just that women get to play aggressor and victim all at the same time
again,,allow lefty to control the narrative and civilization loses
this allows women to be the bullies and have the law and males who arent aware, to protect them
respect is earned
Well, part of the problem is she is a woman who got her start in politics, on her knees, servicing Willie Brown. That’s just a fact the left can’t make go away and it’s part of what tanked her in 2019. In public, she always behaves like she’s filming a scene for Friends. She wasn’t ready for prime time 5 years ago and she’s not today.
What tanked her in 2019 was her record as California AG, and Tulsi Gabbard daring to mention it in the 2nd Dem debate, and the moderators allowing Tulsi to do it and keep at it. Since the moderators cooperated against Kamala, it smells to me like a Biden mob operation. Recall how Kamala had attacked him in the first debate and forced him to the defensive.
Trump said now what was already clear, Obama and Biden hate each other. It’s even more clear that Biden and Kamala hate each other. In fact isn’t it typical for the president and VP to hate each other?
Her pre-WH record is actually far worse than Biden’s. He did basically nothing except vote for segregation and make racists statements for 50 years. Harris has a lot to run against be becoming VP. Should be an easy case to make for voters, assuming Trump can stay out of his own way.
If she was properly vetted through the primary process, her stance would have been showcased for all to see.
But, in order to “save” democracy, she had to be anointed.
You forgot about Brandon Schilling for those Delaware base credit card companies for all of those years. That was his main job in Congress other than being a racist
I think Jill hates her more, by many accounts.
She still talks like she hit her head too many times in the bottom of Willie Brown’s desk
He doesn’t have to call Kamala “nasty”. He could call her “stupid”, which did not apply to Hillary but does apply now.
I wonder how that would work as a nickname, “Stupid Kamala Harris”. Probably not a good idea, but I like it.
I call her Shamala.
“Nasty” is a female pejorative? I used it to describe Biden just today in a FB group, lamenting that I was sorry I couldn’t feel bad for what the Democrats are doing to him because he’s such a nasty person, richly deserving all the crap that’s happening to him.
By her own father’s account Kackling Kamala is descended from a Jamaican slave owner. For some people that might make a difference.
SIgh. This again? She is descended from slaves and their owners exactly like most black Americans. That was part of slavery in America. Slave women had children by their owners, and the owners’ relatives, employees, and guests.
Sigh. This again? There is no evidence that Harris is descended from slaves. In fact, there is no real evidence outside of claims by Harris that she is descended from Hamilton Brown. Harris has not claimed this to my knowledge (slave) and her father, Stanford Economics Professor who divorced Harris’s mother when she was 5, has also not claimed this. She is descended from a Black Jamaican and an Indian woman. The Indian woman well steeped in black grievance to the point she raised Harris in a black environment not an Indian one.
Will you listen to yourself? Black Jamaicans were slaves, not owners. Hamilton Brown, from whom Donald Harris claimed descent, was white. Have you seen a picture of Donald? It’s clear that his white ancestry was in the minority. Therefore he was primarily descended from slaves. Also, the descent he claimed from Brown went through his grandmother, Miss Crishy, whose mother was Jessian Prince, a former slave or the child of former slaves.
Will you listen to yourself?
Hoo boy. Even when you’re right you really should heed this admoni9shment.
I see. So a white person from a slave owning family is guilty by association, but “sigh,” someone who has a single drop of black blood was only participating in “that part of slavery in America.”
You will bend, twist, and contort yourself unrecognizably to support and defend anything a leftists does,
You have no soul.
Oh, he has a soul like the rest of us. Its eventual destination, however, is open to debate based on some of the arguments we see from him. Pedantry (not sure of the term but you understand) in action.
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Huh?! Where on earth is that coming from? You are simply nuts. Off your rocker. On drugs. Nobody is guilty of anything by association, unless they choose to associate with the guilty; why would you think otherwise? What has guilt, whether by association or any other means, got to do with the topic? Have you got guilt on the brain?
The topic, the only topic, is the bizarre claim that Harris is somehow “not black” because she’s not descended from slaves as most black Americans are. And that is not true. She is descended from slaves exactly as most black Americans are, and she is also descended from their owners, again as most black Americans are.
But the slave children of their owners were not “white”, and they were not “slave owners”; they were slaves just like their mothers. No matter how light their skin, or how closely they resembled their white siblings. That is where most black Americans come from, including Harris. After all, Jamaica was no different from any of the other colonies until 1775.
“A woman at the top of the ticket will take slings and arrows that male candidate won’t. That’s just a fact, and we know it.”
As opposed to the literal bullet the white male Republican just took?
Which their side started with all the attacks against Sarah Palin.
Meh. It’s the equivalent of a ‘spoiling attack’ in military terms. This is the same playbook the d/prog always use. Oh the meanies gonna say mean things b/c the d/prog candidate is young (Bill Clinton), old (Biden), ‘black’ (Obama), a woman (HRC) and now Harris.
The key to blunting this play is to attack the candidate’s record. With Harris there’s plenty of failures to choose from to create an effective campaign message. Plus the fact she is tied to all of the failures of the Biden/Harris administration. She’s a horrible politician.
Harris was installed at the candidate for 3 reasons.
1) As the sitting VP and Black/Jamaican there was no good way to also force her out of the Party of Racial Grievance with looking even worse than they do now
2) The Cathedral needs a loyal puppet and now they have one that will do as told. Anyone know her policy positions? She wasn’t in the race in 2020 long enough to voice any real substance
3) As a Black/Jamaican female she can point to anyone who disagrees with her and throw the misogynist race card in an attempt to shield herself from any questions on just how bad and unaccomplished she is. I think this card has been played so much that most people are over it and will not pay any attention.
Agreed. Especially with the racist/misogynist crap accusations. I am at the point where unless they got someone with Aryan Brotherhood tats on film using force to sexually assault someone else then I ignore it. They (media, feminists, leftists, those seeking victim status) have cried wolf far too many times and the legacy of their baseless accusations has eroded any power the words previously held. Without clear, convincing, irrefutable evidence accompanying the allegations right out of the gate I presume those making the allegations are lying liars seeking to create an advantage for themselves by employing a victim hood narrative.
Somewhere between 1) and 2) is the hard fact that she has the only other key to the big campaign chest.
Maybe she does. On the other hand there’s already a legal challenge to the effort to rebrand the Biden campaign coffers as the Harris campaign coffers. It won’t be as simple as a cut/paste and no amount of whining is gonna alter FEC rules that weren’t created to cover this specific scenario, instead they gotta deal with basic rules which appear to preclude a simple name swap to access the funds. Be a real shame if the funds were held in escrow unable to be spent as the law fare worked through the court system. 😎
I love her.
They need to put her on camera. A lot.
They need her to speak. A lot.
They need her to stand on her issues. A lot.
Please. Please. Please.
I’m sure I’ve seen a woman with a more annoying voice and a greater inability to put sentences together to form thoughts, but I can’t remember when.
What large voting block, as a whole, supports her in sufficient numbers to ensure her victory?
Just asking
Major Democrat donors.
wht women on THIS ONE might not support her as much
they could but they might also be repulsed by her and not give her the votes
Kamala is DEI hire feminist fraud.
Hey! Let’s break through that glad ceiling!
But don’t you criticize us for breaking it!
And h0w long did that take? To play the race/sex card?
Less than 48 hours.
And it’s all a way of saying “Don’t you dare bring up Willie Brown!” (Along with the other protective attributes of those cards.)
Kamala 29 y/o having sex with 60 y/o married man who got kamala her office promotion.
Kamala is such a feminist fraud.
Here is the complete list of Kamala Harris’s accomplishments as a local official, prosecutor, U.S. Senator, and Vice President — aside from being elected or appointed.
This list is still developing.
Republican leaders urge colleagues to steer clear of racist and sexist attacks on Harris
“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.
“This is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,” he added, “and her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.”
RELATED:
The number of Black women that participated in a Zoom meeting to support Kamala Harris … 40,000
.. nothing racist and sexist there
The republitards can take the high road all they want. But us independents don’t have to buy into the DEI coronation of an inept, stupid, irritating, leftist, fake black woman who made her bones getting boned by a guy twice her age.
It also didn’t help that sugar daddy, at 90 years old, came out to sing her praises.
According to Willie: “She be bangin’!”
Tell me it is sexist to disagree with someone, and I’ll disagree even faster.
the chant is now
saying dei is the n word
except it doesnt sound as good in a rap song
yeah
that dei hire
she wanted to aspire
so she climbed on my pole
and I spanked her in every hole
now shes gonna lead this nation
with her black and brown ‘plotation
and anyone gets in her way
her sorority sisters will say
best get out of the b tces way
or Im gonna slap you with my wap
and you know I get my way
so vote 10x today
so we can put whitey away
away
away
away
(sung to any tune you damn well feel)
Slings and arrows vs. a 5.56 projectile at 3200 fps.
Really not a difficult choice.
Bullets and stones can break my bones, but verbal slings and arrows will never hurt me