60 Minutes will air its interview with VP Kamala Harris tonight.
The program released two clips, and man, it will be a doozy, as usual.
Bill Whitacker had to call her out over her non-answer about the economy.
No wonder this lady won’t sit down for interviews. Not only does she succeed with word salads, but she falls apart when she can’t just use the regular talking points.
Harris repeated the same old talking points and dog whistles and diverted from questions presented by Bill Whitacker.
Thankfully, Whitacker called her out when he asked her how she plans on paying for her big government ideas:
HARRIS: My plan is about saying that when you invest in small business, you invest in the middle class and you strengthen America’s economy. Small businesses are the backbone of America’s economy.WHITAKER: Pardon me, Madam Vice President. The question was how are you going to pay for it?HARRIS: Well, one of the things, I’m gonna make sure that the richest among us, who can afford it, pay their fair share of taxes. It is not right that teachers and nurses and firefighters are paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations, and I plan on making that fair.WHITAKER: But we are dealing with the real world hereHARRIS: But the real world includes…WHITAKER: How are you going to get this through Congress?HARRIS: You know, when you talk quietly with a lot of folks in Congress, they know exactly what I’m talking about because their constituents know exactly what I’m talking about. Their constituents are those firefighters and teachers and nurses.
These people live in fantasyland where money grows on trees.
Well, we know that the Treasury loves to fire up the money machine. Money machine go bbbrrrrrr!
Anyone else tired of the phrase “fair share?” I have not heard one person define “fair share.”
If you want them to pay their “fair share,” get rid of write-offs and deductions in the tax code. You’re an idiot if you don’t take advantage of them.
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Then there’s Israel and Iran.
I included the whole clip because there is so much going on with Harris’s answers. But the last part raised some eyebrows.
I emphasized the parts I talked about below the transcript:
WHITAKER: We supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid. Netanyahu seems to be charting his own. The Biden-Harris administration has pressed him to agree to a ceasefire. He’s resisted. You urged him not to go into Lebanon. He went in anyway.He has promised to make Iran pay for the missile attack, and that has the potential of expanding the war. Does the US have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?HARRIS: The aid that we have given Israel, allowed Israel to defend itself against 200 ballistic missiles that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel. And when we think about the threat that Hamas, Hezbollah presents, Iran, I think that it is without any question, are imperative to do what we can to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks.Now, the work that we do with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles, which include the need for humanitarian aid, the need for this war to end, the need for a deal to be done which would release the hostages and create a ceasefire, and we’re not going to stop in terms of putting that pressure on Israel and in the region, including Arab leaders.WHITAKER: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.HARRIS: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. WHITAKER:Do we have a real close ally? In Prime Minister Netanyahu.HARRIS: I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people, and the answer to that question is yes.
OK so the first part I emphasized. WORD SALAD. (We need a new description. I’m already tired of it.) Is she trying to blame America for the problems in the Middle East? Is she trying to blame Israel? What the hell are you saying, lady?
The second part: I saw people freaking out over her not calling Netanyahu an ally, but when I provided Professor Jacobson with the full quote, he agreed it wasn’t horrible. This is why I hate it when people don’t put the whole quote in the post because, more than likely, people won’t watch the video.
I don’t think Harris threw shade at Netantyahu. She is trying to play both sides. She cannot tick off The Squad too much and the places they represent, especially Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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