Kamala Harris (Reportedly): The Media Would Treat Me Better If I Were a White Man

Kamala, if you were a white man, you would be running title checks in a real estate office.

White Men continue Failing to Position Kamala for Success.

Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly expressing discontent with the news coverage surrounding her performance as the nation's second-highest office holder, citing her race and gender.

According to a piece by The New York Times, Harris has been privately complaining to her allies that the media's coverage of her would be better if she were any of her 48 White male predecessors, and has reportedly confided in them about the difficulties she's facing with her assigned portfolio from the White House.

The Times' piece, which focused on Harris' struggle to "define herself" within the Biden White House, noted that she held no "headlining role" when it came to some of the administration's most difficult decisions...

In fairness, neither does Biden.

...and that she was caught between criticism that she wasn't performing the job well and resentment from supporters that she was being "undercut" by the West Wing.

The Times noted Harris' historically low approval rating and that a number of high profile staff members opted to depart their jobs less than a year into Harris' term. It also reported she was reaching out to prominent figures like Hillary Clinton to help determine her future direction.

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The Times added that the two speak over the phone every few months and Clinton has visited Harris in her office.

Oh well that's a gold medal decision right there. That shows Kamala's keen instincts -- calling upon the wisdom of the world's most unpopular political figure for advice about how to be more popular.

And what advice did the whiniest, self-pityest chardonnay-soaked hag in the world give?

"There is a double standard; it's sadly alive and well," Clinton said. "A lot of what is being used to judge her, just like it was to judge me, or the women who ran in 2020, or everybody else, is really colored by that."

Hillary Clinton, master of air travel, says she didn't get enough credit for all the things she thought about doing but did not in fact do.

Kamala didn't need to be told that Everyone Else is to Blame, Especially White Men, though.

She was already there:

"Ms. Harris has privately told her allies that the news coverage of her would be different if she were any of her 48 predecessors, all of whom were white and male," it added. "She also has confided in them about the difficulties she is facing with the intractable issues in her portfolio, such as voting rights and the root causes of migration."

Oh. Princess wants the easy slam-dunk issues. That would be Positioning Her for Success.

I don't know if Princess has noticed or not, but Brandon doesn't have any issues like that. He's failing comprehensively.

A friend said about the "I did that!" gas pump stickers that Brandon is seeing levels of contempt, disgust, and pure disregard that even Obama didn't.

Maybe, but then, Obama demonstrated that if you publicly show him contempt, you'll be fired: remember the rodeo clown who dared do what American citizens had done for 250 years before-- he made fun of the sitting president.

He was immediately fired.

Obama could have stepped in and been a statesman and said, "Now, now, come on, people are allowed to make fun of the president; let's not punish a man for exercising a time-honored right."

He did not. He wanted that man made to be an object lesson. He wanted it known throughout America that you dared to insult him at your very grave peril.

But yes, we are seeing higher levels of open mockery and contempt for Biden. Such as the "Let's go Brandon" chant at public events and its more vulgar cousin.

Remember how the leftwing media used to claim that criticism of Obama could only be explained as racism?

So what's animated the Let's Go Brandon phenomenon? A resurgence of Anti-Irish Animus?

And note that the media used to shriek that we could not insult or sport fun about Obama because it was "racist." They can't make that claim with Biden, so now they just say we can't chant "Let's Go Brandon" because it's... um...

Because it's "vulgar." Because it "coarsens our public discourse."

And of course the media would never abide any vulgar coarsening of our public discourse.

And now here's Kamala. Even though people are publicly chanting "F*** Joe Biden" at football games and car races, Kamala claims that she's being poorly treated.... because she's a woman of color.

No one's chanting "F*** Kamala Harris." (Yet.)

But look at all this racism and anti-woman animus.

Again, the leftwing insisting that any criticism of their political figures must spring from some contemptible place and must be shamed and censored from the public square.

Only criticism of right-leaning political figures could ever, ever be motivated by "good" reasons and thus only such criticism must be permitted in the public square.

When all you have is a mouth, every problem looks like Willie Brown's dick.

posted by Ace at 01:26 PM

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