Honest Reporter To Media about Kamala Silence: We don't know the answers to any of these questions
Bucking corporate media and liberals' comfort in a "thin fog" regarding Vice President Kamala Harris, one writer issued a stark reminder about the "job of the press."
"We don't know the answers to any of these questions."
Since the vice president was coronated as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, examinations of her policies from the media have run about as deep as their explorations of President Joe Biden's cognitive ability. But while many outlets remained comfortable pushing the "brat" candidate and ragging on the "weirdos" of the Trump-Vance ticket, New Yorker staff writer Jay Caspian Kang questioned what could come of failing to question Harris' policies.
"A generic candidate who promises nothing on the campaign trail and is unburdened by any past might be the dream of electoral-politics nerds," wrote Kang, "but it's the job of the press in a healthy democracy to make sure that voters know whom they're supporting. An unexamined candidate can become anything, and can work under the influence of anyone, when they assume power."
Comparing Harris to a tennis "pusher," who relies on their opponent to make a mistake, he argued, "This appears to be Campaign Kamala's strategy: don't make any unforced errors, keep things vanilla, and eventually Trump or Vance will implode."