CBS News SWOONS Over Kamala Harris’s Acceptance Speech

Jorge Bonilla
August 23rd, 2024 1:39 AM
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As is par for the course for the Regime Media, CBS News is absolutely ecstatic over the acceptance speech delivered by Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention. 

CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King marveled at Harris’s stridency and adamancy about where she stands:

GAYLE KING: You know, I thought we really, Norah, got a sense of her but I thought she went much further than I thought she was going to do. She touched on nearly every hot-button issue.

NORAH O’DONNELL: Absolutely.

KING: And took it straight on. She was very, very strident and very adamant about where she stands.

CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell also marveled at both the biography and the tone of this speech, echoes of King’s remarks on stridency:

O’DONNELL: Well, if you didn't think  you knew Kamala Harris before, you may know her now. This was a powerful, strong speech. It started off about biography, an extraordinary journey that her mother at the age of 19 crossed an ocean by herself in a story that can only happen in America, as she said. But the back half of this speech was tough.

Incoming CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson also marveled at the speech and was reduced to uttering superlatives:

JOHN DICKERSON: This was her most direct moment to deliver. And what she delivered was not just her record and not just a very strong indictment of Donald Trump and his positions. But a definition of America, and an America out of which she was- out of which she grew, an America- a middle-class America surrounded by nurses, firefighters, a blended family, one of the best lines, just as a matter of just rhetoric. None of the family bound by blood but all of them bound by love. A family bound by love. She defined the America she came out of, and then is basically prosecuting the case to defend that America.

It bears noting that Norah O’Donnell approved of the abortion portion of Harris’s speech: 

NANCY CORDES: She said that autocrats know that he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. And she asked, “Why, exactly, is it that they don't trust women?” No- I don’t…

O’DONNELL: And then she said "Well, we trust women.” She went there. I can't remember hearing a major party candidate for President of the United States talk about access to birth control, medication abortion, sepsis that women face, women's health, children's health care. All of that. When she talked about and accused the Trump Administration of trying to issue a nationwide abortion ban and more, she said simply put, “they are out of their minds.” I used the word “tough” because Governor Walz says they’re “weird”. Kamala Harris said today “they are out of their minds.”

John Dickerson gushes over the foreign policy portions of the speech, claiming it echoes McCain 2008:

DICKERSON: The foreign policy portion of the speech, you could’ve just- that could have been John McCain in 2008. And so, there was-  it was- that was consistent with all of what we saw before. But the idea of her story could only happen in America and her argument is, and unless we defended that America will go away. That is a- that is a call to be inspired by her story, but it also contains that other part which is the peril.

The most honest take of the evening comes from Tony Dokoupil, who compared the proceedings to a children’s birthday party:

TONY DOKOUPIL: Norah I am on the convention floor but that floor is now covered up to my waist in balloons. I think the confetti is in the air, the big balloons are flying, and the 2024 Democratic National Convention is definitely in the books. And people are loving it down here. Chuck Schumer, was he dancing? Was he prancing? I just saw him go by. We've got cheers, we’ve got a certain underwater quality as people dodge the balloons, a certain concert quality as people wait and enjoy the music. And I will leave the reviewing of the content to you. But the emotion and the feeling down here is, I don't know. Seven-year-old birthday part is how I would put it. There is joy and there’s not a lot of thinking. It’s a good time.

From Dokoupil’s mindless joy we go to Robert Costa’s grim warning, suggestive of civil war:

ROBERT COSTA: As we watch the balloons fall, we are all also witnessing something dramatic in real time, the beginning of a tug-of-war of the nation's civic fabric. You have a former president who told me earlier this week over the phone that he sees the Democrats as a corrupt party, a party that's a disaster in power. He cast them as a party that would bring the country further into darkness. Here at this convention, you had a nominee introducing herself to the country but also warning the country that in her view, Donald Trump is a threat, fundamentally, to American democracy. This is not a red versus blue ideological battle. This is not a typical campaign. This is a new chapter, as she said, in the American story. But we are looking ahead to something that could be tumultuous for the country, as it deals with two parties truly pulling at the definition of what it means to be an American.

CBS’s coverage already says a lot about how the media will cast Kamala Harris over the course of these next 75 days, following the frame set by the convention. Abortion, norms, and patriotism. Buckle up.

 

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