There has been a passage of time since Vice President Kamala Harris had become the presumptive Democratic Party nominee by inter-party fiat. And we can see the significance of the passage of time during Friday’s Cuomo on NewsNation, when host Chris Cuomo clownishly suggested that he was unware that the Vice President was a “gaffe machine.” Perhaps with another passage of time, he’ll learn. He also questioned if America was too bigoted for a black woman to be president with a Jewish vice president.
Ignoring all the work the liberal media had been going to help float Harris’s anti-democratic rise to presumptive nominee without getting support of the primary voters, and the media’s utter refusal to offer any withering criticism, Cuomo marveled at how well received Harris was:
I'll tell you what, you can't say that it hasn't gone better than some people like me thought it would. Okay? I thought that without process, this was going to be a lead balloon. And all the polls have moved in the right direction. They’re just snapshots of a moment in time. We're in the honeymoon phase. The media is going to go sideways on Harris. You know, that's what we do. It's just a question of when.
He went on to suggest that he had “never” heard the “new” suggestion that Harris was prone to political gaffes.
“But Scottie [Nell Hughes], this new – this angle that I keep hearing that ‘wait till you hear this, Harris talk more and more. Man, she's a gaffe machine.’ I've never heard that about her before,” he rhetorically scoffed, suggesting Trump was worse, “And I don't know that that's the best matchup with Trump. I mean, he's not exactly known for being very good with the words.
Hughes quickly countered by noting that Harris was known for doing “things like mix world leaders. She does things like make comments and insult, you know, the Hispanic communities and communities that he's addressing. She does the word salads just like Donald Trump does.”
Cuomo should check out arguably Harris’s most infamous of word salads (hinting in the opening paragraph) about the “great significance to the passage of time.” “The Governor and I and we were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time. Right. The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time...” she rambled back in 2022.
There was also her more recent word salad last week when Americans held hostage in Russia were brought home: “This is just extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy, and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.”
Further in the show, Cuomo seeming went back in time to 2008 to regurgitate anti-American smears, suggesting America was a bigoted nation if they didn’t elect Harris and Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA), a possible veep pick.
“[A] black woman and a Jewish guy, man that's putting a lot on America. And it really bothers me. I almost wish that the Democrats would pick Shapiro to make the point that, ‘No, we're not afraid of putting diversity out there. We don't believe that the country has that kind of prejudice,’” he proclaimed.
Wondering: “But would that be, you know, just wishful thinking and they be setting themselves up for to lose by playing that too many things that people may quietly opposed?”
Cuomo accusation essentially boiled down any possible loss by that hypothetical ticket to Americans being bigots, rather than the more likely possibility that they didn’t like their policies.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
NewsNation’s Cuomo
August 2, 2024
8:12:48 p.m. Eastern(…)
CHRIS CUOMO: I'll tell you what, you can't say that it hasn't gone better than some people like me thought it would. Okay? I thought that without process, this was going to be a lead balloon. And all the polls have moved in the right direction. They’re just snapshots of a moment in time. We're in the honeymoon phase. The media is going to go sideways on Harris. You know, that's what we do. It's just a question of when.
But Scottie, this new – this angle that I keep hearing that “wait till you hear this, Harris talk more and more. Man, she's a gaffe machine.” I've never heard that about her before. And I don't know that that's the best matchup with Trump. I mean, he's not exactly known for being very good with the words.
SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES: Let’s just point out. This isn't Kamala Harris, this is the Democrats’ version of Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris, herself, when she’s on her own, she does things like mix world leaders. She does things like make comments and insult, you know, the Hispanic communities and communities that he's addressing. She does the word salads just like Donald Trump does.
At the same time, this is, right now, the Democrats putting out the best version of her. They’re micromanaging her, which is real interesting considering you have a political party that is directing every single thing about a candidate like Kamala Harris.
The Republicans, they trust American voters enough to make sure that Donald Trump, himself is the one that is presenting and they're not micromanaging that message. Maybe they should a little bit better but they trust the voters to see exactly what's in front of their eyes and actually vote. Unlike the Manchurian candidate that has to read the 30-minute script in her car before he gets out.
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8:18:43 p.m. Eastern
CUOMO: You know, so talking with a buddy of mine the other day and he's Jewish. We were talking about Shapiro. Shapiro checks, a lot of boxes. You know, I talked to him a lot coming out of the last election as AG, very competent guy. And, you know, we both just assumed a black woman and a Jewish guy, man that's putting a lot on America. And it really bothers me. I almost wish that the Democrats would pick Shapiro to make the point that, “No, we're not afraid of putting diversity out there. We don't believe that the country has that kind of prejudice.” But would that be, you know, just wishful thinking and they be setting themselves up for to lose by playing that too many things that people may quietly opposed?
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