The Real Reason Why Kamala Won’t Answer Questions

[Hammster]

The Real Reason Why Kamala Won’t Answer Questions

One of things you’re not supposed to do when you’re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too...

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One of things you’re not supposed to do when you’re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too. They count on it. They think that if they just ignore inconvenient facts — no matter how bad they may be — then eventually people will stop talking about them.

That’s why I’m going to begin by repeating a highly inconvenient fact that the Kamala Harris campaign apparently wants everyone to ignore, even though it’s unprecedented in modern politics. Since becoming her party’s presumptive nominee well over a month ago, Kamala Harris still hasn’t participated in a single press conference or interview. The most she’s done is deflect a couple of softballs on an airport tarmac. Harris was also completely absent from the Sunday shows the other day, even though pretty much every single Sunday show is explicitly on the side of her campaign.


Even when Joe Biden ran for office in 2020, when he was secluded in his house supposedly because of COVID, he sat for more interviews than this. He logged in via Zoom, and he only spoke to media outlets that wanted to do everything in their power to prop him up. But still, he technically spoke to the media. Kamala Harris isn’t even capable of doing that. And to this day, there are still no policies listed on her campaign’s website. She’s given speeches about price controls and more taxes, but she hasn’t outlined how any of that will work in practice.

 

[DaisyDay]

Bemoaning the lack of fodder....

 

[Hammster]

Bemoaning the lack of fodder....

Kinda. Her handlers are smart and know that fodder is all she will spew if left to her own.

 

[Pommer]

The Real Reason Why Kamala Won’t Answer Questions

One of things you’re not supposed to do when you’re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too...

www.dailywire.com

One of things you’re not supposed to do when you’re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too. They count on it. They think that if they just ignore inconvenient facts — no matter how bad they may be — then eventually people will stop talking about them.

That’s why I’m going to begin by repeating a highly inconvenient fact that the Kamala Harris campaign apparently wants everyone to ignore, even though it’s unprecedented in modern politics. Since becoming her party’s presumptive nominee well over a month ago, Kamala Harris still hasn’t participated in a single press conference or interview. The most she’s done is deflect a couple of softballs on an airport tarmac. Harris was also completely absent from the Sunday shows the other day, even though pretty much every single Sunday show is explicitly on the side of her campaign.


Even when Joe Biden ran for office in 2020, when he was secluded in his house supposedly because of COVID, he sat for more interviews than this. He logged in via Zoom, and he only spoke to media outlets that wanted to do everything in their power to prop him up. But still, he technically spoke to the media. Kamala Harris isn’t even capable of doing that. And to this day, there are still no policies listed on her campaign’s website. She’s given speeches about price controls and more taxes, but she hasn’t outlined how any of that will work in practice.

I’d like to think that this “doesn’t run her campaign correctly” is a ploy by Harris to engulf the Right in trivial and meaningless “controversies” so that she can concentrate on middle-America; a fair number who would likely see, Harris is scared of the Left Wing News Media! for the twaddle it is.

But she’s not this clever…now if she’s taken advice from Bill Clinton, clever enough to know who to listen to, is all I need.

 

[DaisyDay]

Kinda. Her handlers are smart and know that fodder is all she will spew if left to her own.

"Spew", lols. But yeah, anything Harris says will be twisted and spun by the opposition: fodder.

Um, do you even know what the word means? You have used it to imply that it is not nutritious.

 

[iluvatar5150]

One of things you’re not supposed to do when you’re in the business of news reporting, or political commentary, is repeat yourself. Saying the same things over and over again is usually a good way to turn off your audience. Everyone in the media knows this, and political campaigns know it too. They count on it.

lol, this claim might be even dumber than all that sexist beta drivel he wrote in the last article you posted. Repeating something is how you get a point to sink in. Everybody pushing some kind of message does this, including all of the groups he listed. That's why products and companies and political campaigns have slogans that they use all the time - so you remember them.

 

[Hammster]

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lol, this claim might be even dumber than all that sexist beta drivel he wrote in the last article you posted. Repeating something is how you get a point to sink in. Everybody pushing some kind of message does this, including all of the groups he listed. That's why products and companies and political campaigns have slogans that they use all the time - so you remember them.

So you’d watch a news show that reported the same story night after night?

 

[iluvatar5150]

So you’d watch a news show that reported the same story night after night?

I wouldn't, no. But then, I grow tired of things pretty heavily and my media tastes don't seem to jive with those of a lot of other people.

But do you think guys like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, and Dave Ramsey are/were generating 7-15 hours of new content every week? No, they rehash(ed) stuff over and over. More broadly, many of the most popular tv shows and movies are extremely formulaic. Even more "sophisticated" ones like Breaking Bad and Peaky Blinders fell into this, but it's very obvious in things like NCIS, CSI, L&O, and most of the MCU.

 

[Always in His Presence]

So you’d watch a news show that reported the same story night after night?

Like the Russia Russia Russia story?

 

[Hammster]

"Spew", lols. But yeah, anything Harris says will be twisted and spun by the opposition: fodder.

Um, do you even know what the word means? You have used it to imply that it is not nutritious.

No, we won’t twist it. We will just play it.

 

[Hammster]

I wouldn't, no. But then, I grow tired of things pretty heavily and my media tastes don't seem to jive with those of a lot of other people.

But do you think guys like Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, and Dave Ramsey are/were generating 7-15 hours of new content every week? No, they rehash(ed) stuff over and over. More broadly, many of the most popular tv shows and movies are extremely formulaic. Even more "sophisticated" ones like Breaking Bad and Peaky Blinders fell into this, but it's very obvious in things like NCIS, CSI, L&O, and most of the MCU.

I really don’t see how you think that this is a rebuttal to what he said. What I do know is that you are ignoring the actual topic. That, to me, is most telling.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I really don’t see how you think that this is a rebuttal to what he said.

You don't think that pointing out how many wildly successful media personalities, political campaigns, and marketing ventures deliberately use repetition is a rebuttal against the claim that "everybody knows repetition turns off an audience"?

What I do know is that you are ignoring the actual topic.

I addressed the opening paragraph of the piece, which you quoted.

That, to me, is most telling.

Oh? What, pray tell, is it telling you?

Is it telling you that you posted another article that requires signing up for a mailing list or digging through html in order to read? Is it telling you that you also haven't really addressed the subject of your article?

I did poke through the html and found some classic white grievance:

What does that look like in practice? Presumably it means appointing judges who will approve congressional districts that minimize the voting power of straight white men. It means continuing to discriminate against straight white men in all aspects of hiring, in both the government and the private sector. And it means continuing to tolerate violent racial attacks on white people in broad daylight.

It’s a cliche to point this out, but if the races were reversed, Merrick Garland’s DOJ would have opened an investigation already into this obvious “hate crime.” If anything’s a hate crime, this qualifies. But in this case, no one in the federal government or the corporate press cares. That’s apparently what a democracy looks like when it doesn’t care about white men.

I don't recall the DOJ doing much to go after kids. NYPD has already arrested two, ages 13 & 14.

He then goes on to criticize pathological "catastrophizing and self-pity":

This is an ideology of catastrophizing and self-pity. It’s pathological, to an absurd and obvious degree. And it’s what the Kamala campaign subscribes to. This is why they say that our entire system of government needs to be completely transformed into a racial and gender-based spoils system, where only preferred identity groups matter. They’re unloading all of their neurosis on the rest of the country, in an effort to obtain complete and total power over the people they believe are responsible for their psychological pain.

....which is funny, because in this piece, he bemoaned the plight of the put-upon white man, and in the last one, he complained about how boorish ToughGuys were falling out of favor.

Then he rehashes this trope:

Kamala Harris may not be able to verbalize that, because she’s not capable of verbalizing anything approaching a coherent thought.

...because, again, "everybody in media" knows that you don't repeat things, lest you bore your audience.

So, what is it in the article that you want to talk about?

 

[Hammster]

So, what is it in the article that you want to talk about?

I don’t need to talk about it at all.

 

[DaisyDay]

So you’d watch a news show that reported the same story night after night?

Like reading the Frostbite Falls Picayune Intelligence.