A great deal of the news coverage of and opinion about Kamala Harris reflects a deep innate bias against her.
The press doesn”t know how tonreport on Trump. They don’t know how to analyze crazy. And they or their young editors are not inclined to look beneath the surface to find out and report on what is going on under the hood, so io speak, at the deep subconscious level where voters’ emotions will determine how they vote on November 5, 2024, the day of America’s date with Destiny.
The bias is that is an innate feature of their reporting is that they hold Kamala Harris up in comparison not to her actual opponent, Donald Trump, but rather to some idealized rational presidential candidate who exists only in their imaginations.
Their comparisons of Harris’ speeches, policies, or character are always against this illusory candidate of their imagination. Making such comparisons, they strive to show how brilliant they are analytically. Meanwhile, the necessary comparisons with the real candidate, Donald Trump, are never formulated or presented to their readers and listeners.
Reporting on what is really going on in the campaign is consequently absent from their newspaper articles andp their television reports.
How do you report on crazy? How do you report on Trump’s policies when he has no policies other than talking points that might occur to him or his advisors on any given day, at any given time?
Kamala Harris might not be the best presidential candidate the Democrats might have produced. But given Joe Biden’s stranglehold p on the nomination process and his obstinate refusal to withdraw from the race until he was absolutely forced to do so, Harris was the only feasible candidate for the Democrats–at that moment in time.
With Harris the Democrats at least had a chane to win the presidential election and control of the Senate and the House. With Joe Biden, an increasingly senile candidate, they faced inevitable defeat in all three arenas.
Kamala Harris was the best possible candidate for the Democrats.
For the press and television and other reporters, the central question is and always has been, how does she stack up against Donald Trump and how dobtge Democratic candidates stack up against their Republican opponents.
How do they stack up against Crazy and the lying Republican candidates who are utterly under the thumb of the crazy, lying, and criminal Leader of their authoritarian party? let us be frank and call it what it is–a fascist party totally controlled by a fascist Leader, Donald Trump. Crazy, surrounded by leaders of a would-be fascist government.
Ponder this: Neither Trump, nor vive-presidential candidate J.D. Vance, nor Republican House Leader Mike Rodgers, will admit publicly that the 2020 presidential race was won by Joe Biden. Nor will they admit that there was virtually no evidence of any significant fraud– none, as confirmed by the decisions of all 62 courts in which Trump raised spurious claims of fraud without a shred of credible evidence.
Moreover, these same Republican leaders will not commit to accepting the presidential election results in 2024 if Trump doesn’t win.
It is past time that reporters started reporting on what is really going on in the 2024 elections, on the character and democratic commitment of candidates from the two parties.
Without a fearless and vibrant press, America seems to be in a political coma.
Who, if not the press, will administer CPR to the comatose American body politic, if not the press?