It’s only been two days since Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris would be his VP pick and the media have already returned to being the Democrat sycophants we all remember from the Obama-era. American Urban Radio Networks White House correspondent and CNN analyst April Ryan kept up the Kamala love-fest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night, showing exactly what kind of fawning coverage a Biden-Harris administration would receive from their friends in the WH press.
As the pair gushed about the historical significance of the Harris pick, Ryan called it was a “defining moment” that “history books will chronicle.” Sounding like a campaign spokeswoman, Ryan boasted that Harris that she would “form a more perfect union,” “fulfill what this nation needs,” and “create race equity,” in her laundry list of over-the-top promises:
Each moment in history has its significance, but this is a defining moment in history. This is something that the history books will chronicle, and people will look at this moment to see how to navigate for the future. But at the end of the day, Kamala Harris is the-- she's the former Attorney General for the largest state in the nation.
She-- she has-- she's someone who doesn't take tea for the fever. She can fight anyone at any moment. She can knock down the hardest or the staunchest person who is against the Biden-Harris ticket or against the American public because she is standing next to Joe Biden saying she's part in trying to make this "We the people" who are still trying to form a more perfect union, go. She sees that this is a moment that we are in the midst of what is growing pains, and she wants to pull it out. She wants to stand behind and with Joe Biden to fulfill what this nation needs. And one of the key pieces, the priorities for this administration is trying to create race equity, and they also want to stop systemic racism. So that's one of the priorities. And they believe that she is the one to help do this. I mean, this is a historic time. We cannot compare it to Obama-Biden. We cannot compare it to Clinton-Gore. This moment stands for itself.
Oh yes, this sounds like someone who's really going to hold an administration to account. You see, absurd predictions, whether they be good or bad, is a staple for the CNN analyst. On CNN she even said that Harris and Biden were going to save America together.
Can you imagine Ryan asking a President Joe Biden three times, if he's a racist?
Colbert also asked her about that exchange from two years ago, if she still needed to ask if Trump was racist.
“Oh, no, I don't have to ask it. He's racist in chief. He's liar in chief...He’s definitely a racist without a hood,” Ryan fumed.
The Late Show host did some race-baiting of his own, claiming "middle aged conservative white guys" were downplaying the significance of the Harris choice with racial attacks:
What do you make of some of the sort of hostile trial balloons that are floated by the middle-aged conservative white guys saying, ‘Well, she's not really an African American. Let's not get all excited about this.’ What possible value could there be to that kind of, um, take by these people on Kamala Harris, a-- a woman of color in America? Why would they say that?
Yeah, how about that "middle-aged conservative white guy" Don Lemon on CNN saying this very thing:
Hey @donlemon - Do you still wonder if @KamalaHarris is authentically black?? pic.twitter.com/27aglKpEfS
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 11, 2020
Colbert really is out of touch if he thinks woke identity politics is what most conservatives care about. April Ryan was even on that segment with Don Lemon but she didn’t correct him, instead saying, "There is no value to this. People are always trying to figure out who you are. Well, sometimes we have to identify ourselves. Yes, she is a woman of color. But she identifies as a black woman."
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Read a partial transcript, below:
CBS's The Late Show
08/13/2020
12:05 a.m. EasternCOLBERT: What do you make of some of the sort of hostile trial balloons that are floated by the middle-aged conservative white guys saying, ‘Well, she's not really an African American. Let's not get all excited about this.’ What possible value could there be to that kind of, um, take by these people on Kamala Harris, a-- a woman of color in America? Why would they say that?
RYAN: There is no value to this. People are always trying to figure out who you are. Well, sometimes we have to identify ourselves. Yes, she is a woman of color. But she identifies as a black woman. She identifies as a black woman because her father is a black Jamaican. Now, she identifies, number one, as a black woman because she attended a black university, Howard university, the first federally funded H.B.C.U.Then she also pledged a black Greek sorority, the first black Greek sorority there is, Alpha Cappa Alpha. And also-- and this is so important-- if she is stopped by police by herself, the police will look at her as a black woman. End of story.
COLBERT: Well, what do you make of the significance of this pick compared to other vice presidential picks? Because very often, the rule is, first, do no harm, when picking a Vice President. It's often questioned as to how influential that pick is. Do you think this is more important of a decision than other presidents have made in the past, or presidential candidates, I mean, have made in the past?
APRIL RYAN: Each moment in history has its significance, but this is a defining moment in history. This is something that the history books will chronicle, and people will look at this moment to see how to navigate for the future. But at the end of the day, Kamala Harris is the-- she's the former Attorney General for the largest state in the nation.
She-- she has-- she's someone who doesn't take tea for the fever. She can fight anyone at any moment. She can knock down the hardest or the staunchest person who is against the Biden-Harris ticket or against the American public because she is standing next to Joe Biden saying she's part in trying to make this "We the people" who are still trying to form a more perfect union go. She sees that this is a moment that we are in the midst of what is growing pains, and she wants to pull it out. She wants to stand behind and with Joe Biden to fulfill what this nation needs. And one of the key pieces, the priorities for this administration is trying to create race equity, and they also want to stop systemic racism. So that's one of the priorities. And they believe that she is the one to help do this. I mean, this is a historic time. We cannot compare it to Obama-Biden. We cannot compare it to Clinton-Gore. This moment stands for itself.
(....)
COLBERT: I just want to ask one last question. In 2018 you asked President Trump, ‘are you a racist?’ Do you still have to ask that question?
RYAN: Oh, no, I don't have to ask it. He's racist in chief. He's liar in chief. He’s threat-er [?] in chief. He’s narcissist in chief but he’s definitely a racist without the hood.
