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The repeated lies by the legacy media in defending Kamala Harris range from annoying to outrageous. They will do almost anything to support her and her supposed positions (which mainly are copied from Donald Trump).
As Eddie Scarry points out in an insightful The Federalist article, Republicans need to engage with these interviewers in a whole new way. He suggests two strategies for calling out Kamala’s defenders:
One is to force the trifling anchor to fully expose himself as a Democrat surrogate by demanding he explain and defend his counterpoint.
Senator Tom Cotton did this expertly in a recent interview with ABC’s Jonathan ‘Milhouse’ Karl. When Karl attempted to run interference for Kamala by insisting Kamala no longer supports every godawful policy she professed to support and even aided in implementing as vice president, Cotton challenged Karl to show his math. ‘How do you know that’s not her position?’ said Cotton in a way that kind of turns me on. ‘How do you know that’s not her position? She has not said that. She has not said that. She has not said that.’
Scarry recommends a second option: that Republicans hold these “liars and fiends” accountable for their statements. They need to be confronted aggressively and not debate and argue. Here are some of the questions he suggests that Republicans ask them about their defense of Harris:
Why are you defending her?
Why are you speaking for her?
Why are you letting Kamala and the Democrats dictate your coverage?
Why are you trying to debate on their behalf?
If you want a debate, host one and demand that she be here to answer for herself, rather than you answering for her.
Why do you accept that Kamala has abandoned every major position she held until two months ago, positions she has attempted to disown without any feasible explanation? Why is that acceptable to you?
I think the author is on to something. Too often, Republicans have gotten defensive, rather than turning the tables on the despicable and biased interviewers who are questioning them. Or they behave as if their priority is to be polite and amiable.
It’s time that Republicans call them on their duplicity.
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I was much amused when, as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination started calling interviewers on the false premises of their questions. Oh, he's being argumentative. The voters will punish him for that. We have to go like good little doggies wherever the interviewers leash leads us! Which was funny, because on both sides the answers were just some memorized talking point rarely related to the question, anyway. But interviewers were able to pack a lot of slanders into those questions.
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Maybe we can find a way to frame our questions so that those watching will realize that we are calling them out on their lies. Or doesn't anyone care about the truth anymore...
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Republicans can't be afraid of speaking out because they will be labeled as whatever by the press. Mother Theresa would have been labeled as angry and combative and compared to Hitler if she had been a Republican. At the very minimum, adopting these recommendations will make them more attractive to Republicans. And ultimately it is Republicans who will vote for them.
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Many don’t care about the truth anymore. Maybe they never did.
Eric Weinstein said something interesting in a podcast recently: when you hear these lies, they’re not lying to you; they’re instructing you.
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Harris ran as a socialist in 2020 and has said recently that "her values have not changed". I would bring that up over and over and over.
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