Thank you for pointing out that no Black woman would have interviewed MVP in sweats. One wonders - but not for very long - whether she would have done the same for a white male V.P.
“But also the business world, they don’t think she's serious,” Mitchell said. “They don't think she’s a heavyweight.” Andrea Mitchell says shit like that as if she's reporting facts, "Who Andrea, who in the business world thinks the current VP of the USA is a lightweight?"
Andrea Mitchell is way past her usefulness as a commentator on politics. She cannot speak clearly or coherently, and she is a sane-washing tool. Politico is a rabid misogynistic freak show. Harris is making all the right moves - going to content creators, podcasts, talk shows, and popular radio outlets. She is reaching out to modern listeners on modern media. MSM are all close to being Republican oriented mouthpieces, and it shows in their degrading coverage of Harris and Walz. There is not a single article about them in WaPo, NY Times, even the Atlantic and New Yorker, that does not pivot to an fpotus quote or some garbage he spews. There are precious few reporters, opinion columnists usually, in MSM that report on facts and substance, but they are jumping to Substack and (for now) alternative media. Abandoning the tabloid flavor MSM is hawking at the behest of their billionaire owners. Thank you, writers on Substack!
"The people who claim they want to hear more “specifics” from Harris — a perfectly normal candidate — are just looking for any excuse to vote for the drooling psychopath who’s also a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist."
This incisive, devastating sentence for SER is the actual core of the matter here. And the "persuasion" and "specifics" are just more Murc's Law bullshit because anything Dems will say is nitpicked, while President Klan Robe can gibber all he likes about his crowd sizes and Hannibal Lecter and whatever and it gets covered up.
Good job on Kamala Harris and we need to make sure we all get that turnout up.
Check your registration if you're in one of the states that doesn't have the 30-day deadline. (www.vote.org or www.iwillvote.com) And get ready to mount up- vote as early as possible as Republicans are doing their best to delay tabulation!
Tim Walz on Fox News, “where he’ll reach exactly zero truly undecided voters” is ok by me because like Pete Buttigieg, going on Fox shows an effort being made to give those brain dead listeners a dose of truth along with their daily allotment of baseless lies.
Of course! But I imagine most people who aren’t fans don’t really pay attention if they can help it. On the other hand, if you can stomach it, it can be interesting to see the misinformation of the day.
I think legacy media is missing the point of what Harris is doing or they're actually afraid of it to the point they avoid to mention it. Harris overtly trying to coup d'etat the NYT and WP and other media like the Huff or Politico out of relevance. Their gambit inviting content creators to the Convention, their tactical and strategic use of social media and their willingness to use a wide arrange of means to get the word out while snubbing legacy media means that the Democrats believe that under layers and layers of self importance and mutual bjs, the big newspapers and TV channels are losing their grip on their audience. So they put them on the ballot: they said "We don't have to cater to you, not only bc you're too biased on the other direction, but bc you're yesterday's news". Now these media are on the ballot right next to Donald Trump, if he gets kicked in the nuts next month so will them.
I don't know why everyone can't see this. Donald Effin Trump 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 for chrissakes to communicate directly with supporters without the meddling intervening influence of traditional media. Why isn't it obvious that they are unnecessary? They are clinging to obsolescence.
They do see it (that's why they're bullying Harris into granting interviews) but what are they going to do? Roll over and die without taking the World with them? That would be un-American
Great point. So opting out of legacy media not only throws shade on them, its a STRATEGIC move as well. Someone in Harris campaign is crunching the numbers and doing the research and the prognosis does not look good for the ossified legacy giants.
Growing up in the south it was greatly frowned upon for women to applaud themselves or show confidence because then you seem “stuck up” and full of yourself.
It’s no wonder that we feel like we have to apologize for being competent and confident.
And Harris was perfect when she said that women need to stand with other women. That’s gotta scare the shit out of puny insecure men with LDE because EVERY MAN knows, you do NOT want us to band together. They understand what we are capable of even if they don’t say it outright. They should all be very, very afraid.
VP Harris gave the perfect answer to Huckabee Sanders, who BTW, isn't humble. If you are bragging about being humble, you ain't humble. And why isn't she, and Vance, concerned about men who don't have biological children? Why only the women?
It's so disgusting how anti-family these conservatives are. And this is OK. There should be widespread condemnation of Huckasands and the other demagogues.
I bet that Huckasands is just another one of those pick-me quislings who, since they're seated at the table of power, they can enjoy pushing others down. She internalizes the same misogyny that all these conservative men have. The same ones who have the jokes about "ball and chain" and "women drivers." The only role for women for most of these retrogrades is barefoot and in the kitchen, raising kids.
Yeah, Fucking Mrs. Greenspan is reliable for this point of view and shit-stirring....
I guess "What about Her interviews" are the "What about Her emails" that Mitchell continually harped on throughout 2016.
SER Joint stuff below.
"20 percent independent (i.e. Republicans who don’t want people to think they’re bigots"
No notes...this is observably true.
Shorter Politico: "Why won't she dance to our tune?!"
Thank you for pointing out that no Black woman would have interviewed MVP in sweats. One wonders - but not for very long - whether she would have done the same for a white male V.P.
“But also the business world, they don’t think she's serious,” Mitchell said. “They don't think she’s a heavyweight.” Andrea Mitchell says shit like that as if she's reporting facts, "Who Andrea, who in the business world thinks the current VP of the USA is a lightweight?"
There's no sexism quite like that from women directed at other women. FFS.
𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘔𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘓𝘶𝘵𝘻, 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 “𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘺,” 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
[Somewhere, in the distance, the faint sound of a microphone hitting the stage]
Andrea Mitchell is way past her usefulness as a commentator on politics. She cannot speak clearly or coherently, and she is a sane-washing tool. Politico is a rabid misogynistic freak show. Harris is making all the right moves - going to content creators, podcasts, talk shows, and popular radio outlets. She is reaching out to modern listeners on modern media. MSM are all close to being Republican oriented mouthpieces, and it shows in their degrading coverage of Harris and Walz. There is not a single article about them in WaPo, NY Times, even the Atlantic and New Yorker, that does not pivot to an fpotus quote or some garbage he spews. There are precious few reporters, opinion columnists usually, in MSM that report on facts and substance, but they are jumping to Substack and (for now) alternative media. Abandoning the tabloid flavor MSM is hawking at the behest of their billionaire owners. Thank you, writers on Substack!
Why is Andrea Mitchell still on anyway?
Here's from an idiotic WaPo pundit column on Harris's 60 Minutes Interview:
Chuck: She needs a catchy policy idea. Something as succinct as “build the wall” but responsible and relevant.
Ramesh: The price-gouging idea is catchy. It’s just not a serious answer to inflation.
Steve: She seemed to hit her stride when the conversation turned to Ukraine and America’s role in the world, no?
Chuck: That’s when my wife talked over her lol, so I missed it.
Wow, no wonder she gives a pass to sitting down with these luminaries.
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“Harris is ‘still largely avoiding the media,’ which only makes sense if you strictly define ‘the media’ as “people who spout nonsense.”
Politico is one of the sane-washing, both sides-ing, horse-racing rags that are marching our country down the road of fascism.
I often wonder how they justify it.
Honestly, I don’t think any of them can see past their own egos and the accolades they want to accumulate.
"The people who claim they want to hear more “specifics” from Harris — a perfectly normal candidate — are just looking for any excuse to vote for the drooling psychopath who’s also a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist."
This incisive, devastating sentence for SER is the actual core of the matter here. And the "persuasion" and "specifics" are just more Murc's Law bullshit because anything Dems will say is nitpicked, while President Klan Robe can gibber all he likes about his crowd sizes and Hannibal Lecter and whatever and it gets covered up.
Good job on Kamala Harris and we need to make sure we all get that turnout up.
Check your registration if you're in one of the states that doesn't have the 30-day deadline. (www.vote.org or www.iwillvote.com) And get ready to mount up- vote as early as possible as Republicans are doing their best to delay tabulation!
Tim Walz on Fox News, “where he’ll reach exactly zero truly undecided voters” is ok by me because like Pete Buttigieg, going on Fox shows an effort being made to give those brain dead listeners a dose of truth along with their daily allotment of baseless lies.
Keep in mind that Fox News is on in a lot of public and shared spaces. Not everybody who *sees* Fox News does so by choice.
I’ve walked out of waiting rooms that are tuned in to Fox News. I’ll find a different gp, therapist, chiropractor, etc. That’s a dealbreaker!
It would be great if the election were decided by the waiting room patient demographic.
Of course! But I imagine most people who aren’t fans don’t really pay attention if they can help it. On the other hand, if you can stomach it, it can be interesting to see the misinformation of the day.
Har-ris!
Har-ris!
Har-ris!
I think legacy media is missing the point of what Harris is doing or they're actually afraid of it to the point they avoid to mention it. Harris overtly trying to coup d'etat the NYT and WP and other media like the Huff or Politico out of relevance. Their gambit inviting content creators to the Convention, their tactical and strategic use of social media and their willingness to use a wide arrange of means to get the word out while snubbing legacy media means that the Democrats believe that under layers and layers of self importance and mutual bjs, the big newspapers and TV channels are losing their grip on their audience. So they put them on the ballot: they said "We don't have to cater to you, not only bc you're too biased on the other direction, but bc you're yesterday's news". Now these media are on the ballot right next to Donald Trump, if he gets kicked in the nuts next month so will them.
I don't know why everyone can't see this. Donald Effin Trump 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 for chrissakes to communicate directly with supporters without the meddling intervening influence of traditional media. Why isn't it obvious that they are unnecessary? They are clinging to obsolescence.
They do see it (that's why they're bullying Harris into granting interviews) but what are they going to do? Roll over and die without taking the World with them? That would be un-American
Great point. So opting out of legacy media not only throws shade on them, its a STRATEGIC move as well. Someone in Harris campaign is crunching the numbers and doing the research and the prognosis does not look good for the ossified legacy giants.
How about instead of calling them “legacy” media we start calling them Big Media, aka Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Business, etc.
Growing up in the south it was greatly frowned upon for women to applaud themselves or show confidence because then you seem “stuck up” and full of yourself.
It’s no wonder that we feel like we have to apologize for being competent and confident.
And Harris was perfect when she said that women need to stand with other women. That’s gotta scare the shit out of puny insecure men with LDE because EVERY MAN knows, you do NOT want us to band together. They understand what we are capable of even if they don’t say it outright. They should all be very, very afraid.
This, all of this. I’m also a daughter of the South, Boomer-vintage, and you hit the nail on the head.
I am so proud of VP Harris. She is amazing and I can hardly wait to vote for her.
Got my ballot yesterday!!
YESSS let's goooooooooo!
VP Harris gave the perfect answer to Huckabee Sanders, who BTW, isn't humble. If you are bragging about being humble, you ain't humble. And why isn't she, and Vance, concerned about men who don't have biological children? Why only the women?
It's so disgusting how anti-family these conservatives are. And this is OK. There should be widespread condemnation of Huckasands and the other demagogues.
I bet that Huckasands is just another one of those pick-me quislings who, since they're seated at the table of power, they can enjoy pushing others down. She internalizes the same misogyny that all these conservative men have. The same ones who have the jokes about "ball and chain" and "women drivers." The only role for women for most of these retrogrades is barefoot and in the kitchen, raising kids.
Yes, ‘one of those pick-me quislings’ — that says it all.
Gosh, I just can’t imagine …
Good question on childless men. It’s so pervasive that a GOP candidate borrowed someone else’s family as you know.