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A story in three headlines! First, anti-DEI warrior Chris Rufo, who took down Harvard’s gay black president for plagiarism, published this Substack article two short days ago:
Kamala Harris's Plagiarism Problem
The vice president appears to have airlifted sections of her book, Smart on Crime.
CHRISTOPHER F. RUFO
OCT 14, 2024
On the same day, the New York Times, leaping to the plagiarizing vice president’s defense, ran a classic “Republicans pounce!” story. Admitting that Kamala cut-and-pasted parts of her 2009 book, ironically titled “Smart on Crime,” the Times framed the scandal as conservatives taking advantage of a poor, misunderstood — but joyful — Vice President who merely lapsed.
Conservative Activist Seizes on
Passages From Harris Book
A report by Christopher Rufo says the Democratic presidential
nominee copied five short passages for her 2009 book on crime.
A plagiarism expert said the lapses were not serious.
It was just a lapse. It can happen to the best of us! Kamala lapsed into something all right. Amusingly, the increasingly poorly written New York Times overlooked the fact that “lapse” means something someone did before but stopped.
So ironically, the Times accidentally accused Kamala of being a serial plagiarist. In other words, friendly fire.
Finally and third, this morning’s (not paywalled!) Washington Post headline:
Harris campaign rejects claims of plagiarism
Some experts say the incidents cited by a conservative critic are modest and may not reflect an intentional effort to take
credit.
In other words, Kamala might have done it on accident. The Washington Post’s attempt to cover for Kamala was even more accidentally destructive than the Times’ “lapses” argument. According to WaPo, Kamala’s not a plagiarist, she’s just stupid:
Accusations of plagiarism can become politically damaging they
helped derail President Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 1987
and potentially invite questions about a candidate's honesty. But in this
instance, according to several experts, the passages appear the result of
sloppy work rather than a malicious attempt to steal someone's ideas.
More friendly fire! The WaPo’s quoted “plagiarism experts” did their best to soft-pedal the scandal — it’s nuanced — but were forced to admit that, technically speaking, Kamala did in fact plagiarize several parts of her awful book:
"It's nuanced," said Jonathan Bailey, a copyright and plagiarism
consultant who has examined the claims about Harris's work. "It's not
nearly as serious as accusers want it to be and it's not the
nothingburger that the Harris campaign wants it to be, either."
All in all, with all that friendly fire, Kamala probably felt like she was being attacked by a swarm of indignant bees. And this is how desperate the Kamala campaign is getting: behold yesterday’s headline from Bloomberg:
Kamala Harris Says Reparations for Black Americans Deserve Review
Vice president touts agenda in Charlamagne tha God interview
Harris seeking to ramp up outreach to Black male voters
Reviewing Reparations! So.
Apparently this comes from the 'hope springs eternal' that his Rockefeller cousin IHLlary can still be maneuvered by sleight of hand into the bankrupt office and complete the task of starting WWIII.
Patrick says
With the wealth and do nothing job, you'd think he'd age better. He has AIDS.
Kamala's interview on Fox such a disaster,
blaming everything on Trump.
Halfway through and Kamala has yet to answer a question, blaming everything on Trump.
CNN ran a revealing story yesterday headlined, “Kamala Harris spars with Fox News anchor in testy interview.” Almost every mockingbird media headline about yesterday’s interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier included the word, “testy.” So now we know! Testy means when the reporter insists that the interviewee answer the question, a rare strain of media treatment Kamala has never before encountered, but which used to be the default back before the government acquired corporate media.
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1846680688189161605
During her ‘testy’ interview with Brett, Kamala tried to execute the same oleaginous maneuver as during her debate with Trump, which was to recite a little memorized speech whenever Brett asked her a question, even if the little speech had nothing whatever to do with the question Brett asked except for the topic area.
For instance:
BRET: “How many illegal immigrants would you estimate your administration has released into the country over the last three and a half years?”
KAMALA: “Bret, let's just get to the point. Okay? The point is that we have a broken immigration system that needs to be repaired.”
(Am I the only one who finds totally infuriating Kamala’s verbal tic of punctuating her speeches with “Okay?”)
She also claimed, possibly for the very first time, that her presidency would not in fact just continue Joe Biden’s regime. But, when Brett asked her to name something she’d do differently than Joe, she couldn’t even come up with a single example. She just rambled away sixty seconds of precious airtime.
Based on corporate media’s desperate efforts to rescue her from herself, and based on social media’s crowd reaction, it was the worst interview performance Kamala has ever given. My guess is she won’t be sitting for any more unscripted interviews. Back to the basement.
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I was listening to Glen Beck this morning. Here is some more info about the Kamala interview. The interview was originally scheduled for 1 hour but Kamala's people advised Bret late in the day that she would only agree to do 30 minutes. She then showed up 15 minutes late for the 30 minute interview. All this was done to try to throw Bret off his game. He had prepared questions for a 60 minute time period, and he had to reduce his questions to 30 minutes. The late arrival for the 30 minute interview was also obviously done on purpose.
Fox News anchor Bret Baier has revealed that Kamala Harris’s handlers were melting down behind the scenes during his interview with the Democrat presidential nominee.
After the trainwreck interview was broadcast, Baier revealed that four members of Harris’s team were “waving their hands” to try and stop the cameras rolling.
It was the first time Harris had sat down for an unscripted interview on a non-friendly network.
The interview was such a disaster that many are comparing it to Joe Biden’s infamous debate with President Donald Trump in July.
90% of Americans Want CBS to Release Unedited Kamala Harris ’60 Minutes’ Interview
https://slaynews.com/news/90-americans-cbs-release-unedited-kamala-harris-60-minutes-interview/
90% of Americans Want CBS to Release Unedited Kamala Harris ’60 Minutes’ Interview
U.S. — In a desperate, last-ditch attempt to keep Donald Trump from winning the election, Democrats have announced they are switching out Kamala Harris for a wheel of cheese with a sign reading "Not Trump."
Party officials reportedly held emergency closed-door meetings following Harris's widely panned interview with Bret Baier of Fox News this week, instead opting to utilize a rarely used loophole in election laws to install a block of cheese as the party's candidate.
"We feel the cheese is far more likable and, honestly, more intelligent," said one high-ranking Democrat who asked to remain anonymous. "We tried to give it a go with Kamala, but we're getting down to crunch time here. We didn't have many options left, so we all reluctantly agreed that it was better to go with the wheel of cheese. If nothing else, the cheese doesn't have that incessant cackle."
Media pundits said the late switch might turn the race upside down. "The cheese makes a strong point," said MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. "It's very up-front with its position that it is not Donald Trump, which is the most important issue and something millions of Americans can get behind. We're used to supporting politicians who can't answer questions, so the fact that the wheel of cheese is an inanimate object isn't that much of a departure. I'll be voting for the wheel of cheese in November."
Kamala has reached angry, shrill Hillary status… #JOY
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