Kamala Harris’s Fox interview: our experts are united in their verdict

[Gunny]

She's at the plate. She swings. And misses:laugh:

Kamala Harris’s Fox interview: our experts are united in their verdict (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-s-fox-interview-our-experts-are-united-in-their-verdict/ar-AA1soBVS?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=48a9ddc801b04a84b1e609b0c2f899dc&ei=4)

[Gunny]

Ms Harris has spent weeks on the back foot, unable to answer detailed policy questions even in softball interviews with Left-wing outlets. When she finally sat down with Fox, she could only attack the man the network most supports.

Same article.

[Gunny]

Harris, Bret Baier spar over immigration at outset of Fox News interview (thehill.com) (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4937635-kamala-harris-bret-baier-fox-news-interview/)

[NightTrain]

Well, that was a disappointment. Baier could have pinned her a dozen times but didn't.

I'd give my eye teeth to see Trey Gowdy or Ted Cruz conduct that interview. Every time Baier had her on the ropes, she'd pivot to Trump instead of answering the question and Baier didn't follow through.

She still didn't do herself any favors by being that slippery.

[Kathianne]

Well, that was a disappointment. Baier could have pinned her a dozen times but didn't.

I'd give my eye teeth to see Trey Gowdy or Ted Cruz conduct that interview. Every time Baier had her on the ropes, she'd pivot to Trump instead of answering the question and Baier didn't follow through.

She still didn't do herself any favors by being that slippery.

I'm at work, I dvd it. I think the Trump! And January 6! Are old. People are tuning those out.

[NightTrain]

I was wondering about the rushed and awkward end of the interview. It was quite abrupt. Turns out Brett had 4 KamKam staffers waving their hands at him to shut that interview down immediately and that's why it ended like that.

Panic because they knew how badly it was going?

Sen Kennedy, Trey Gowdy, Ted Cruz, Sen Massie... that would have been epic.

[Kathianne]

I was wondering about the rushed and awkward end of the interview. It was quite abrupt. Turns out Brett had 4 KamKam staffers waving their hands at him to shut that interview down immediately and that's why it ended like that.

Panic because they knew how badly it was going?

Sen Kennedy, Trey Gowdy, Ted Cruz, Sen Massie... that would have been epic.

It seems much of conservative bloggers and bloviators think Baier did a very good job for her train wreck, with very little time:

Here's one

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/10/16/kamala-harris-gives-a-train-wreck-fox-interview-n2180674

[Kathianne]

One more. Oh, look up Tucker Carlson, he wasn't impressed from what I've read.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/10/kamala-harris-repeatedly-pivots-to.html

[Kathianne]

One more then going home to watch:

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/10/16/wednesdays-final-word-trainwreck-n3795911

[Kathianne]

Sums it up nicely:

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/10/17/team-kamala-invoked-the-mercy-rule-and-i-cant-stop-laughing-n4933414


Team Kamala Invoked the Mercy Rule and I Can't Stop LaughingStephen Green | 10:15 AM on October 17, 2024



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I did not watch Bret Baier's interview with Kamala Harris on Fox News on Wednesday evening. I didn't need to and neither did you. Unless you have a fascination for train wrecks, car crashes, skateboarders who whack their nads on staircase banisters, and other unnatural disasters, I hope you didn't watch it.


One reason is that everyone, including Team Kamala, knew there would be nothing of substance said, certainly not to Baier. The other is that Harris "has a voice that nails on a chalkboard find irritating," as my friend Stephen Kruiser put it earlier today. Honestly, if she becomes president (I almost typed "wins the election" but thought better of it), I might spend the next four years in an internet-proof underground bunker. Under the ground in Siberia.


But I digress.


The main reason not to watch is that it's unsportsmanlike to gawk at someone getting slaughtered so badly in any contest where they invoke the Mercy Rule.


For those unfamiliar, the Mercy Rule is most often used in youth sports. When one softball team of nine-year-olds is already down 13 runs to nothin', and it's only the fourth inning, just invoke the Mercy Rule and let the losing team leave the field without any further humiliation.


That's kind of what happened between Harris and Baier last night. And, believe it or not, Team Harris basically conceded before the interview could even begin. "We were supposed to start at 5 p.m. — this was the time they gave us, originally," Baier said afterward. "We’re going to do 25 or 30 minutes."


Then Harris's people, according to Baier, "Came in and said, ‘Well, maybe 20 [minutes].’ So, it was already getting whittled down."


"And then the vice president showed up at about 5:15." The result was that Baier's production team had to "push the envelope" to get the interview video ready to go for the top of his nightly 6:00 p.m. broadcast. Still, unlike the dishonest hatchet job "60 Minutes" did last week to make Harris sound more prepared, knowledgeable, and able to speak coherently than she actually is, Fox aired the interview uncut.


Team Harris knew this, of course, which is why they virtually invoked the Mercy Rule.


Baier said he had hoped to ask more questions, but there were "four [Harris] people waving their hands [from offstage] like it’s got to stop,” he said. “I had to dismount there at the end."


The Democrat-Media Complex can — and will, and already is — spin this disaster harder than a dreidel in a hurricane.




I mean, that didn't take long, did it?


But they can't escape the fact that Harris's staffers waved the white flag. They invoked the Mercy Rule. They surrendered to Brett Baier's relentless assault of [checks notes] firm follow-up questions.

[Gunny]

That was a plan that worked like a charm. Let Kamala be Kamala :laugh:

The Telegraph article (OP) cracked me up because as left-leaning as the commentary is, they STILL couldn't say anything good about Kamala. Pointed out enough times that Fox News was "enemy territory" though:rolleyes: