What’s up with Doug?
Kamala Harris was questioned on several topics by Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday night, but her husband’s very problematic history with women was not among them.
How was this not the first question?
We’ve heard Kamala’s canned answers about everything else ad nauseum. But when it comes to a claim from multiple sources that in May 2012, Doug Emhoff punched his then-girlfriend in the face so hard that she turned around, in view of a valet line outside an A-list gala in France, Harris apparently has nothing to answer for.
Democrats are the party of “believing in all women,” of “protecting all women,” and especially the right to abortion.
The obvious question is: Does Kamala, the prosecutor who boasts that she was motivated by the sexual abuse suffered by her teenage best friend, believe? this women?
Kamala Harris was questioned on several topics by Fox’s Bret Baier on Wednesday night, but her husband’s very problematic history with women was not among them. How was this not the first question?
Do you believe the babysitter, whom Doug Emhoff allegedly got pregnant during his first marriage?
After all, Doug admitted to the affair but didn’t deny the pregnancy.
He also has not denied reports that he paid the nanny $80,000 to leave and made her sign a confidentiality agreement. He has not denied reports that the Los Angeles police were called to the babysitter’s home, at the time she was supposedly pregnant, for a level three emergency, meaning a life-threatening situation.
Baier’s interview on Wednesday was commendable on several fronts, including her willingness to reject Harris’ filibuster and nonsense intended to plug gaps in her knowledge and consume valuable time, time that Baier said was interrupted by the vice president. and his team, who arrived for an already brief interview well after the start time.
As Harris sat in a defensive stance, legs crossed and wrists on his knees, Baier asked this big question, which no other journalist had asked yet:
‘You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that (he) was circling his staff. When did you first notice that President Biden’s mental faculties seemed diminished?
Now that is cooking with gas.
Harris paused. His brow wrinkled. His eyes searched for an answer that didn’t include the phrases “opportunity economy,” “aspirations, dreams and goals,” “work ethic,” “lift people up, not beat them down.”
Your OS was stored for a good few seconds. Then he told a blatant lie.
“Joe Biden,” he said, “I’ve watched him from the Oval Office” (hands went up, forming brackets that move up and down as if to indicate heavy, deep thoughts) “and the Situation Room,” his tandem head nods. arrives now—’and he has the judgment and the experiment, the experience, to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people.’
That must be why all the Democratic Party elders, including Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, practically physically forced him to withdraw from his bid for a second term.
Kamala also made a stealthy detour, repeatedly asking Baier some version of, “Will you let me finish?”
The subtext was clear: are you, a journalist, really going to cut off (dismiss, ignore, disrespect) a person? women? Potentially the first female president of the United States?
We’ve heard Kamala’s canned answers about everything else ad nauseum. But when it comes to a claim from multiple sources that in May 2012, Doug Emhoff punched his then-girlfriend (pictured) in the face so hard that she turned around, Harris apparently has nothing to answer for.
Which reminds me of this classic Kamalaism, expressed to Baier in full indignation against Trump as ‘the president of the United States, in the United States of America!’
There is nothing remotely sexist about an interviewer telling a subject that his or her answers are repetitive, banal, or clichéd. Or that your limited time will be better spent getting specific details and deepening the conversation, rather than spinning verbal wheels until time is up.
Up to that point: As Baier tried to finish, Kamala, who clearly thought she was on fire, kept backing away and talking, talking, talking, until Baier had to tell her that her own team (four of them, he later said), were frantically demanding that this disaster be stopped.
Among the many qualities that Kamala lacks, self-awareness is right up there.
In fact, she and Doug have made women’s rights a centerpiece of their presidential campaign, despite the obvious possibility that these dark accusations from their past would arise.
Here was Doug with MSNBC fan Jen Psaki on September 29, weeks after the nanny affair story broke:
“When we help women, we help families, we help the economy,” she said cheekily. “And when I was in business, the organizations I was in got better.”
Tell that to the women who worked at Emhoff’s law firm, who have since exposed a culture of misogyny and poor treatment.
As several former employees told the Mail, Emhoff allegedly punished women who did not flirt with him, organized men-only drinking nights in the office, and preferred to have young, attractive female associates accompany him in limousines to big events.
What kind.
In the wake of these disturbing claims, Kamala and Doug doubled down on social media. On Sunday, Kamala posted a loving message on Instagram.
“Happy birthday my Dougie,” he wrote. “You are the best and I love you so much.”
That same day, Doug posted photos of himself with his daughter, Ella, you know, whose babysitter he slept with, when she was a baby, and wrote:
“Through this campaign, I have found myself thinking a lot about the role we, as parents, have to play in fighting for a future that empowers our daughters.”
That’s Doug Emhoff: the best girl dad, right? And if you don’t believe it, check out his recent photo with Julia Roberts wearing a Harris-Walz cap.
This brazenness, this use of women to value Doug and Kamala, gets to the real problem with her candidacy: she is inauthentic, she is hypocritical, and she avoids any topic that might make her feel (heaven forbid) uncomfortable.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media does, and very happily so.
The only person who has pretended Venturing into this unholy realm is MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who last week asked a generic, flowery question that debunked these women’s disturbing claims.
She’s inauthentic, she’s hypocritical, and she avoids any issues that might make her feel (God forbid) uncomfortable. Unfortunately, the mainstream media does, and very happily so.
Oh, and of course, both Doug and Scarborough blamed Trump for spreading defamatory “tabloid stories” about Doug’s “personal life.”
To be clear: these are No stories about Doug’s personal life. These are stories about the women he allegedly abused.
“We don’t have time to focus on that,” Emhoff said. “It’s all a distraction.”
Are awkward women a ‘distraction’? I understand.
What a shame for Scarborough. Shame on all the media lackeys carrying Kamala and Doug’s water. If this were a Republican candidate, the New York Times and company would be researching this guy’s history like archaeologists.
Kamala’s next big interview is rumored to be with Joe Rogan. If he has real guts, if he wants to show his true mettle, next he will sit down with a right-leaning or centrist journalist (Megyn Kelly or her increasingly rare ilk) and answer all the questions about Doug the babysitter. , the ex-girlfriend and her alleged culture of misogyny in the workplace.
In the very likely event that Kamala does no such thing, the onus falls on whoever gets the next interview.
The only question is: will they be brave enough?