Vacuity............ lol....
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/opini...means-no-al-smith-civility-with-trump-imposs/
It hasn’t happened in four decades: a presidential candidate refusing to attend the iconic Al Smith dinner, the fundraiser hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York that for nearly 80 years has served as a lighthearted bright spot in an otherwise toxic political environment.
This decision by Kamala Harris — or at least her handlers — to cloister herself from the gentlest of negative spotlights comes as part of a campaign of silence: She has yet to hold even a single press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee in July.
In fact, Harris has done fewer than 10 interviews total in that time, while Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have done nearly 80 since becoming the Republican ticket two months ago.
The calculation here, of course, is to shorten the runway, run out the clock to Nov. 5th, and expose Kamala to only controlled and friendly environments that will allow her to extend her ridiculous “joyful warrior” campaign persona.
We witnessed this strategy when she sat down with Oprah Winfrey for an extended slobbering-campaign-commercial-of-an-interview last week featuring two hours of Harris’ scripted non-responses to benign questions about the border and the economy.
That “interview” was undoubtedly stage-managed by her campaign, which is easy to do when the host implores her audience to vote for the interviewee.
But the campaign couldn’t demand that kind of control during the Al Smith dinner. And for Team Harris, that’s simply too scary a prospect to risk.
After all, nothing is so cringe as Kamala attempting to do comedy, in routines that feature her cackling at her own jokes when no one else does.
Who can forget her bizarre quips about Venn diagrams and electric buses, or her painful patter concerning Starbucks coffee-cup lids?
“So you know how those lids on the Starbucks cups, they’re white, right? And so if you wear lipstick, they get all over the lid!” she exclaimed in a 2018 speech. “So I said, can we do something about the color of the lid?” she wrapped up, chortling uproariously and applauding herself.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/23/opini...means-no-al-smith-civility-with-trump-imposs/
It hasn’t happened in four decades: a presidential candidate refusing to attend the iconic Al Smith dinner, the fundraiser hosted by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York that for nearly 80 years has served as a lighthearted bright spot in an otherwise toxic political environment.
This decision by Kamala Harris — or at least her handlers — to cloister herself from the gentlest of negative spotlights comes as part of a campaign of silence: She has yet to hold even a single press conference since becoming the Democratic nominee in July.
In fact, Harris has done fewer than 10 interviews total in that time, while Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have done nearly 80 since becoming the Republican ticket two months ago.
The calculation here, of course, is to shorten the runway, run out the clock to Nov. 5th, and expose Kamala to only controlled and friendly environments that will allow her to extend her ridiculous “joyful warrior” campaign persona.
We witnessed this strategy when she sat down with Oprah Winfrey for an extended slobbering-campaign-commercial-of-an-interview last week featuring two hours of Harris’ scripted non-responses to benign questions about the border and the economy.
That “interview” was undoubtedly stage-managed by her campaign, which is easy to do when the host implores her audience to vote for the interviewee.
But the campaign couldn’t demand that kind of control during the Al Smith dinner. And for Team Harris, that’s simply too scary a prospect to risk.
After all, nothing is so cringe as Kamala attempting to do comedy, in routines that feature her cackling at her own jokes when no one else does.
Who can forget her bizarre quips about Venn diagrams and electric buses, or her painful patter concerning Starbucks coffee-cup lids?
“So you know how those lids on the Starbucks cups, they’re white, right? And so if you wear lipstick, they get all over the lid!” she exclaimed in a 2018 speech. “So I said, can we do something about the color of the lid?” she wrapped up, chortling uproariously and applauding herself.
