CANDIDATES: When Candidate Harris delivered a speech...

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

...the Fox News Channel fought back: She entered the current White House campaign very late in the game.

When she did, Candidate Harris faced several major challenges.

She was facing a challenge set for her by outgoing President Biden:

By his policies at the southern border, and the apparent result of same. By his failure to explain those policies—a failure we would regard clear derogation of duty.

By changes in the cost of living which occurred during his term. By his failure to make any attempt to speak to that situation.

(Also, by the gruesome behavior of his gruesome son, Hunter Biden. By his failure, over time, to come to terms, in any way, with the actual conduct of the special group of people he weirdly describes as "the Bidens.")

Vice presidents who run for the White House are often challenged by their associations with the outgoing president under whom they served. Adding in the sheer stupidity of present-day American discourse, Candidate Harris has been especially challenged in this regard.

Candidate Harris has also been challenged by an array of positions she adopted in 2019. (She left the last presidential campaign in December of that year.) Within the context of American politics, some of those positions were so extreme that major journalists have incorrectly assumed that she never took them. 

On Fox, it's routinely asserted that the candidate is insincere in her current, more moderate positions. We would assume that she was possibly less than fully sincere when she adopted the earlier positions, back when they suited the outlook of large parts of the Democratic Party base.

That said, we have no idea.

Yesterday, Candidate Harris delivered a speech. After that, she was interviewed by MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle.

We thought her interview was by far the best she's given in this campaign. In our view, the candidate is sensational in giving a scripted speech. Previously, she has often seemed halting, unsure of herself, in her infrequent interviews.

What did the candidate say in her speech? At present, we expect to spend next week examining "the issues." That said, the candidate faces another serious challenge, no matter what she says or proposes or does. 

Yesterday, Harris gave a speech. Last evening, the Fox News Channel fought back. We were especially struck by what was offered to us the people on that channel's gruesome 8 p.m. program, Jesse Watters Primetime.

There's no way to keep up with the firehose of propaganda which issues from "the cancer growing on the society" known as the Fox News Channel. At upper-class newspapers like the New York Times, the finer element in our society has agreed that they mustn't ever report or discuss the things which occur on that channel.

For today, we direct your attention to what happened starting at 8:15 last night. At that time, Watters introduced Dana Loesch, whose thumbnail goes like this:

Dana Lynn Loesch Eaton (born September 28, 1978) is an American radio and TV host. She is a former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and a former writer and editor for Breitbart News...

[...]

During the 2016 Republican presidential primary, she endorsed the Ted Cruz campaign while disparaging the candidacy of Donald J. Trump. However, according to The Atlantic, since Trump's election Loesch became one of the Trump presidency's most visible "passionate defenders."

In 2016, Loesch labelled the mainstream media as "the rat bastards of the Earth. They are the boil on the backside of American politics ... I'm happy frankly to see them curb stomped." When the videos resurfaced after a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland in 2018, Loesch said she had meant she wanted some news stories to be curb-stomped and was not encouraging violence against journalists.

And so on from there. For the record, Loesch is conventionally attractive and is quite good at what she does. 

Loesch is entitled to her views, and also to her demeanor. But is she entitled to her facts? That's the question which is raised by what she told several million neighbors and friends as Watters looked on last night.

It was standard end-of-democracy stuff! Just to set the scene, this was the first exchange:

WATTERS (9/25/24): Nationally syndicated radio host Dana Loesch is here. Dana, did Kamala Harris just go on television and say the American Dream is gone?

LOESCH: Well. it was really hard, Jesse, to understand what she said because I don't speak Drunk Hallmark...When I hear her speak, I feel like I'm listening to a freshman Marxist collegian who has yet to take an Econ class sit here and try to dictate to people who have had to make payroll, who have had to be the first people to show up and the last people to leave, what it is to run a business... 

Loesch doesn't speak Drunk Hallmark! Or at least, so she claims.

Adding to our earlier list, Loesch is of course entitled to whatever it is she "feels like." That said, she quickly managed to employ the word "Marxist," as is the norm on this channel when offered a question like that. 

Watters followed with a peculiar claim, saying that neither Harris, nor her husband, has ever been "successful financially." In fairness, Watters routinely makes odd claims as he waves his hands all about on his peculiar program.  

Eventually, the question of facts arose. We'll admit that we'd never heard the claim in question before! 

Quick background! On Fox, the employees have been working hard, in the past few weeks, to insist that Harris is a product of upper-class financial privilege. 

She's not from the middle-class at all! Extending this mandated theme in a way we'd never heard, Loesch now offered this:

LOESCH: This is what happens when you never—you don't know what it is to be middle-class, you don't know what it is to run a business. 

This woman, Jesse—I know you know this—she is soooo privileged. If you look up "privileged," it is like every Democrat candidate ever in the dictionary. 

She went—and I know she talks about busing—but she started in a very expensive primary school that most Americans could not even think of affording. And she lived in a really nice neighborhood. 

She had a two-parent home, which is a privilege now, thanks to Democrat policies ruining the American family. She's been privileged, nonstop, from a baby now to where she is. So she can't identify with the American voter, and that's why Trump's messaging is resonating with people, because he's built stuff...

A lot of that helps illustrate an extremely basic point. As a species, we the people simply aren't wired—we simply weren't built—for this "public discourse" stuff.

A lot of that passage helps illustrate that point. That said, we'll admit that we'd never heard it said—we'd never heard it said that Candidate Harris is so amazingly privileged that she started in a very expensive primary school that most Americans could not even think of affording. 

A note on the fall of the west:

Back at the dawn of the modern political era, there was no way for a person like Loesch to make a statement like that to millions of American voters. Today, major platforms exist for no reason except to promulgate such claims.

That said, we had never heard any such claim—and when we sat and googled the claim, it was very hard to find what Loesch was talking about. Loesch was so far off in the weeds when she made this statement that we couldn't find a record of other such people making some form of the statement.

Within our failing public discourse, there are the thing a candidate says—but there are also the things that people like Loesch will say about a candidate.

Tomorrow, we'll show you what we found, late last night, after a rather difficult search. Loesch was really off in the weeds when she spoke with Watters last night. That silly boy laughed at what she said.

In the wake of a certain "democratization," this is the way the remnant of our public discourse now works. The finer people at upper-class sites have all agreed not to tell you this. Life is sweeter, safer, better when you defer to Fox.

Forced to enter the race very late, Candidate Harris faced major challenges. On balance, it seems to us that she's doing a very good job.

That said, there are certain challenges no candidate can hope to meet. As it turns out, the whole human race faces a challenge from the way we humans are wired!

Tomorrow: In all candor, we still aren't completely sure what the talk host meant