If we are to believe that the first female The presidency is truly within our grasp. So why do Democrats treat their candidate like an incapable child, unfairly maligned by male forces?
The bad guy in question is Fox News host Jesse Watters, who found himself in the lurch last week after declaring on air that if Kamala Harris won in November, the country’s top generals would “have their way with her” in the Situation Room.
Watters’ colleague on ‘The Five’, Jeanine Pirro, immediately reacted in shock.
“I don’t like that. Take it back!” he warned.
Watters, however, was unfazed: He had been speaking “figuratively,” he explained. His comment was not intended as “sexual,” but was simply saying that Harris would be overwhelmed by more capable experts in stressful moments of decision-making.
Fox News host Jesse Watters found himself in a tough spot last week after claiming on air that if Kamala Harris was elected president, the country’s top generals would “do whatever they want with her” in the Situation Room.
Simple enough, though it didn’t satisfy the microaggressor crowd, who were shouting “sexism” and demanding Watters’ head on a plate.
In the days that followed, reports emerged that he was fighting to salvage his decade-long career at Fox.
There were scores of articles unscrupulously criticizing Watters as a “misogynist” or even (according to the Fox-hating Media Matters) a “racist.”
And for what?
Watch the video for yourself. Any honest person can see exactly what his comments were.
And what is the real purpose of this absurd witch hunt against Watters? To divert attention from the very good point I was trying to make: Harris is totally out of line, and especially on foreign policy issues, which are often discussed in the Situation Room.
Take, for example, the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Days later, in a television interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Harris boasted that she was the “last person in the room” with President Biden before he pulled the plug, a move that left 13 U.S. service members dead and virtually handed Afghanistan back to the woman-hating Taliban terrorists.
For some unknown reason, our first female would-be president was trying to take credit for the catastrophe. On national television.
Harris sat down with Dana Bash again last week, but this time she brought a man to sit next to her and hold her hand.
It didn’t matter that she was facing a notoriously soft-spoken inquisitor on a Democrat-friendly network, or that the interview was conveniently buried over Labor Day weekend, Harris needed her running mate, Tim Walz, there as a co-pilot.
A former prosecutor – she constantly reminds us – fears a somewhat superficial interrogation.
The real purpose of this absurd Watters witch hunt is to divert attention from the very good point he was trying to make: Kamala Harris is totally out of her element.
That interview, from which we gleaned all or nothing of information about Harris’s campaign, which included no political topics, was the first she gave since assuming the party’s nomination. She has not yet held a serious press conference and has no other interviews planned.
On Monday, as Harris boarded Air Force Two, she was seen exiting her SUV with wired headphones in both ears and the phone pressed to her ear as if she were on a call, dodging questions from the watching press.
How brave! How inspiring!
And that is why this youth campaign against Jesse Watters does a disservice to women around the world.
If Harris is really so vulnerable to flippant interviews or a TV host’s clumsy phraseology, then she has no place as a presidential candidate.
And if the left persists in this rush to treat with kid gloves the slightest hint of sexism or injustice, then they must ask themselves whether they themselves believe that women have what it takes to rise to the top unhindered.
The truth is that Harris’ supporters are growing increasingly desperate, praying for distractions and reasons to refocus the conversation on hot-button issues like her gender and away from the glaring problem of her ineptitude.
Like every woman I know, I would love to see our great nation’s first female president, but Kamala Harris, like Hillary Clinton before her, is not up to the task, and that has nothing to do with men like Jesse Watters.