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Brando's avatar

Lutz is nuts because the typical viewer of Colbert, Stern, etc. are people tuning in for entertainment and not politics (by contrast with Fox or CNN viewers) so these are exactly the sort of viewers who may not be planning to vote or may not know who they will vote for yet. It makes sense to try to reach them through those venues. Disengaged voters are not sitting around watching news shows.

Hell, I even think it'd be a good idea for Harris to go on Rogan's show, because though he skews right wing he's got a reputation as an overly credulous interviewer who lets his subjects say whatever they want. It wouldn't be like accepting an interview with Hannity. And like Stern, his audience (mostly male) tends to be there for reasons other than politics and would include a lot of people who don't know much about Harris and could be persuaded by her.

It's nice to see her team is adopting a smart media strategy--fossils like Mitchell are so caught up in their legacy self-importance they don't realize how irrelevant they're becoming, at exactly the moment their credibility is most widely doubted. Some self-reflection should be in order, but I doubt they have it in them. And that hypocritical trash Sarah Huckabee may think Harris needs some "humility" (not hard to see her channeling some plantation-mistress shit with that comment) but good for Harris deftly swatting that shit down.

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marcus816's avatar

“Andrea Mitchell, Frank Lutz, Maureen Dowd, and the Politico crew probably bite their lips to keep from calling her “uppity”, (and Kamala Harris just told them, in not so many words, that they can bite her ass.)

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