The 60 Minutes interview was supposed to be a cornerstone of Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’s much-ballyhooed “Media Blitz”, featuring such tough interviews as The View, Howard Stern, Stephen Colbert, and the Call Her Daddy podcast. Instead, it may have turned out to be a millstone.
Here CBS’s Bill Whitaker performed a journalism- a practice that seems archaic these days. There were questions asked, and the expectation that these questions would be met with an answer.
The interview began with a question on October 7th, and America’s relationship with Israel. Harris tries to split the baby by calling for a ceasefire and emphasizing America’s relationship with Israel but also distancing herself from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Here, she refuses to acknowledge Netanyahu as a close ally:
This entire segment on Israel was already disgraceful to begin with- so much more so given it airs on October 7th pic.twitter.com/yiJfv7Asfe
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
From there, the interview went to economic proposals. Notice both Harris’s level of comfort once Whitaker gets past the first question, and the overall failure to answer the question:
Excised from the full exchange on the economy with Bill Whitaker: the "I'm speaking" interruption pic.twitter.com/5IWwBZVSLw
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Whitaker proceeds to a question on Harris as a candidate, from whence comes this gem:
The chutzpah on Kamala Harris to talk about earning the vote while skipping the 2024 presidential primary pic.twitter.com/ZQcIkh4pl4
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
We come to the most damning portion of the interview: For the first time in memory, Harris gets seriously called out on her flip flops. Here, Harris responds by delivering a flurry of word salads. Furthermore, Kamala Harris cannot bring herself to admit that blowing the border wide open to the tune of millions of illegal migrants a year:
Kamala Harris can't answer, despite repeated passes at the question, whether it was a mistake to blow the border open pic.twitter.com/DDf8SHe52E
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Whitaker asks Harris to explain Trump’s continued support, Harris narrowly avoids a “Basket of Deplorables” moment á la Hillary Clinton in 2016.
In word-salading the question asking her to explain Trump's continued support by millions of Americans, Harris narrowly avoids a "Basket of Deplorables" moment. Just barely. pic.twitter.com/4C4NnzMbvE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
The obligatory visit to Ripon, WI feels like a conquest victory tour. One wag noted that the Harris campaign exhibits their Republican endorsers with the pride of a hunter showing off their latest 12-point buck:
Obligatory portion on the visit to Ripon. The Regime Media love it pic.twitter.com/fZGBHDRIum
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Pivoting back to foreign policy, Harris dodges on Ukraine NATO membership but not on continued American involvement in these conflicts.
Obligatory Ukraine question: Harris dodges on UKR membership in NATO- not on our continued involvement there. pic.twitter.com/r24vtXypUV
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
On her claim of gun ownership, Whitaker gets out of her that she owns a Glock.
Pressed on the gun ownership issue, Harris claims to own a Glock and done range time with it pic.twitter.com/lbpePcbwtc
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Moving on to Minnesota Governor and 2024 Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz: Unlike Fox’s Shannon Bream, who presented a full menu of lies for Walz to choose to deflect from, Whitaker presses Walz on Tiananmen Square. Walz brushes it off to “passion” and “emotion”, and again largely skates on the character question.
Tim Walz refuses to accept accountability for lying about his record: in this instance, Tiananmen Square representations, assuring America he's totally not a pathological liar. pic.twitter.com/EUhVcw98Yy
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
The exchange between Whitaker and Walz was more jovial than with Harris. Here, Whitaker softly sets Walz up to deliver a well-worn stump line:
Whitaker keeping the "Republicans say your policies are radical" nonspecific allows Walz to skate by with a variant of his "what a monster, kids are fed" line pic.twitter.com/OpEjmB1d9I
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Walz gets another open-ended softball: the “weird” question.
Another softball for Walz: the "Weird" question. pic.twitter.com/Er6l5wzDLR
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Finally, Harris is given a chance to make a closing argument.
Harris is given a chance to make a closing argument pic.twitter.com/BYbBvWRlkR
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 8, 2024
Several things stick out from this interview: other than being perhaps a bit too chummy with Walz, Whitaker did his job. He pressed Harris on a number of issues in a way that the Regime Media had not done over the course of this compressed campaign. Harris, on the other hand, showed why the Regime Media failed by allowing her to run a Plexiglass Basement campaign until a month before the election. Her non-answers on her economic proposals and on immigration expose her. Her continued bookings on friendly outlets where she is guaranteed to get a tongue bath expose everyone else.