The mainstream media were marked on Wednesday with “cheerleaders masquerading as journalists” for praising praise over sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday after accepting the Democratic nomination on Day Three of the Virtual Convention.
“The Democratic cheerleaders who are dismissing themselves as reporters are desperately trying to make Kamala Harris the story of this election because they know there is no soul on the planet over a candidate for Joe Biden,” the Conservative said. strategist Chris Barron to Fox News.
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Harris paid homage to trailblazing women before her, while advocating tackling “structural racism” in America and telling various personal stories in an attempt to humanize herself during her speech.
Cornell Law School professor and media critic William A. Jacobson felt that Harris’ speech was “pedestrian and low-energy,” but it was carried out.
‘If it had been handed down by someone else, it would have been panned out as a disappointment and failure to seize the moment. But since the liberal media is investing in Kamala’s narrative, instead of in Kamala’s reality, the speech is being hailed as historic and impressive, ”Jacobson told Fox News.
The mainstream media previously indicated that it was all on Harris by filling her in and trying to portray her as a moderate when she was selected last week to feature Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, and the reaction to her speech left similar approval.
“The immediate build-up to the climactic appearance of Kamala Harris with a montage of family members and other Americans, whose permissive elevation over her selection as the Democratic vice presidential nominee beautifully personalized and communicated the excitement of her historic rise,” New York Times columnist Frank Bruni wrote.
Colleague writer Michelle Goldberg, fellow Gray Lady, added, “It’s heartbreaking that Kamala Harris had to give her story-making speech in an almost empty room when they had to bathe in cheers.”
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote that Harris “excreted President Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic” while urging her to “get in touch with her inner Muhammad Ali” and fight.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper called Harris’ speech “one of those moments that will change people’s lives” because of its historical significance, while adding that the “progressive” rhetoric could excite young voters.
Wolf Blitzer emphasized that her personal story was “amazing”, while Van Jones said that women from all over the country accused him of “feeling great” after seeing Harris’ performance.
“There’s in this brokenness that I think they speak at a much deeper level than policy,” Jones said. “Normally the VP brings the blowtorch, she brings the campfire. Something really special happened last night … she did something beautiful. ‘
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It was also much the same on broadcast networks.
‘As broadcast networks would have it, they could not talk about Barack and Michelle Obama all week during their coverage of the virtual DNC for 2020. That said, they could taste fierce praise on Wednesday night for Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris” rising speech ‘, and Care for Americans’ [Harris and Joe Biden] as people, ” wrote NewsBusters director Curtis Houck.
Houck notes that “ABC set expectations high in the build-up to her speech” when congressional correspondent Mary Bruce predicted that Harris’ speech “would be an enormous moment of significance for women, for women of color, and especially for young girls. “
Once the speech was over, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Andrea Mitchell praised the ‘rising’ and ‘extraordinary’ speech.
CBS News staffer Maria Elena Salinas offered what Houck called “perhaps the single biggest pro-Harris reaction” to network news.
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“I think she’s manualized herself and she humanized Joe Biden and I think what people get out of it, also that they can really work together as a team and that family is first for them, so they’re very relative. “Today, and maybe they did not see themselves as politicians, maybe they just saw themselves as people today,” Salinas said.
Houck wrote on the cover, “They agree with every word of what she said.”
Political satirist and columnist Tim Young told Fox News that harassing Harris is nothing new.
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“You knew the media were in love with Kamala when the ‘serious reporters of the presidential election’ went on a girl’s shopping spree with her and they all giggled together in their primary rune,” Young said, referring to the 2019 incident when CNN national political reporter Maeve Reston, NBC News political reporter Ali Vitali and CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns documented a laughing shopping spree with Harris on Twitter.
“A media that wants to be buddies and go shopping with them will never be critical of them,” Young said.
Fox News’ Marisa Schultz contributed to this report.
