Just as the Media Research Center was angry that nice things were said about President Biden after he withdrew from the presidential race, it was even more outraged that people said nice things about Vice President Kamala Harris as she positioned herself as the Democratic candidate in the days after Biden’s withdrawal:
- MSNBC’s Katy Tur Pines For Harris-Whitmer Ticket As ‘Pushback’ Against RNC ‘Machismo’
- CBS Already Playing the Race Card for Harris, Hails Her as ‘Brilliant’
- ABC Hails Kamala ‘Blazing New Trails’ After ‘Biblical’ Biden Twist, Trump ‘Meltdown’
- NPR Expert Spins Both Ways: Harris Challenge Would Be Good, No Challenge = ‘Party Unity’
- Colbert Delivers Ode to ‘Great President’ Biden, Dances for Harris
- MSNBC Ladies Demand Country Use New ‘Keywords’, ‘Sacrifice’ for Kamala Like Joe Has
- Morning Joe Coo-Coo For Kamala: Won’t Merely Beat Trump, She Can ‘SLAM’ Him!
- MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Demands That the UAW Bend the Knee to Kamala Harris
- ABC, CBS, NBC Gush Kamala Is ‘Barreling Towards’ DNC With ‘Surge of Energy’
- The View: Harris Is a ‘Moderate,’ ‘Former Prosecutors Aren’t Leftist’
- CNN Desperately Tries to Make Kamala Harris Hip to Gen Z, But She Is NOT ‘Brat’
- PBS Balance: Amanpour & Co. Buffs Biden Up With One Guest, Trashes Trump With The Next
- REGIME PROPAGANDA: NBC Passes A Kamala Youth Commercial Off As ‘News’
- Noted Regime Shill Harry Sisson Joins Erin Burnett, Promotes ‘Excitement’ Over Kamala Run
- Joy Reid and Guests Bootlick Kamala Harris, Attack White Men
Clay Waters wrote a July 22 post headlined “Will The New York Times Again Screech ‘Racist and Sexist’ at Kamala’s Critics?” Well, if they’re racist and sexist, why not? Waters offered no evidence they weren’t. The MRC offered more posts in that vein:
- King Claims It Is ‘Certain’ Harris Will Face ‘Racism and Sexism’ During Campaign
- MSNBC Whines That Calling Harris A ‘DEI Hire’ Is ‘Clearly Racist’
Curtis Houck concern-trolled over Harris taking over the nomination without running in a primary in a July 22 post:
On Monday’s CBS Mornings, longtime leftist CBS correspondent and CBS News Streaming Network host John Dickerson defended the Democratic Party giving a middle finger to primary voters and coronating Vice President Kamala Harris without a single vote because, well, at least they didn’t storm the Capitol like Republicans did on January 6, 2021 and claim the 2020 election was rigged.
Co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King might have inadvertently opened the door to the kabuki theatre Democrats will employ now that President Biden has dropped out by saying off the top of the show that Biden’s “surprise announcement yesterday, marks an historic, unprecedented and possibly undemocratic moment in American politics with the election…105 days away”.
Skipping ahead in the first half-hour, co-host Tony Dokoupil hit the nail on the head in a set-up to Dickerson: “Republicans…are already calling this an undemocratic process. You know, Democrats say they’re all about protecting democracy, here they are overturning the will of 14 million primary voters. Do they have a point there?”
Dickerson would only give the GOP “sort of” credit before arguing the parties can set whatever rules they want: “Okay, parties get to pick how they want to pick people. So if Democratic Party decides this is how they want to pick their nominee, they get to choose.”
Houck then whined that Dickerson “pivoted to his usual pompous and smug self by invoking January 6 as a way (albeit as a logical fallacy) to end discussion.” He didn’t explain where, exactly, this “logical fallacy” supposedly was.
Mark Finkelstein complained in a July 24 post that CNN right-wing spinner Scott Jennings was accurately identified as offering spin:
When CNN This Morning host Kasie Hunt brings in a Republican and a Democrat to discuss the campaign, that would be two spins. But at the end of today’s chat with Republican Scott Jennings and Democrat Brad Woodhouse, Hunt raised her arms, and told viewers:
“Scott is giving you spin. That is what they are going to say.”
Hunt stepped in as referee and declared Jennings the loser. Note also Hunt calling Republicans “they.” It’s obvious who the suspicious “they” is in Kasie’s mind!
It’s not enough for the liberal media to extol Kamala Harris to the heavens. They must also devalue and dismiss any attempts by Republicans to make their case against her.
Finkelstein offered no evidence that Jennings wasn’t spinning.
Alex Christy found a way to bring his comedy cop schtick into things, complaining that a late-night show that focuses on internet memes (which he has previously attacked for making fun of his fellow conservatives) praised Harris for leaning into internet memes:
CBS’s After Midnight is a show that prides itself on being the late night program for the younger, TikTok-watching, meme loving audience. So, naturally, host Taylor Tomlinson went all in on Tuesday with praise for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign’s decision to “embrace the memes.”
After ridiculing middle-aged media personalities trying to explain Gen Z slang, Tomlinson declared that “It’s not a bad idea for the Harris campaign to embrace the memes. That’s how we understand the world and memes. I think when we go into the voting booth, this is what we should see. Right? Not me exercising my civil rights! Slay! Meming and internet culture is great for so many reasons.”
As she was talking, pictures of Harris’s famous “We did it, Joe” video after their 2020 win and Donald Trump looking at the sun during an eclipse were displayed on screen.
When Tomlinson invoked the “brat” meme — “Kamala is brat. And nobody is calling Donald Trump brat. Except maybe every nanny he’s ever had” — Christy huffed in response:
Unfortunately for Tomlinson, while the whole Brat thing may be considered a meme in the original, Richard Dawkins sense of the word, so can the fact that she is a strange person. In the more recent sense of the word, where a meme references a humorous image to make an argument or observation about something, Harris is still tied to the Biden record, and those memes are plentiful.
So memes are good only if they attack Christy’s designated political enemies? Got it.