There are few cheerleaders more reliable than Kamala Harris’s friends in the liberal media.
Ever since President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election race last month, their print presses and TV networks have put in a hard shift trying to paper over Harris’s past record as the most unpopular Vice President in American history.
To read and listen to their florid praise is to believe that Harris is already a shoo-in for president – and not an 11th hour replacement as Democratic nominee. But that’s changed since Harris’ dismal DNC speech.
The reliably liberal New York Times was among the first to suddenly change tack on Friday, taking aim at what many perceive to be Harris’s fatal lack of clear policy with a brutal headline that read: “Joy Is Not a Strategy.”
In sour commentary, NYT Deputy Opinion Editor Patrick Healy said he’d “cringed” when former president Bill Clinton took the convention stage on Tuesday to claim that Harris would be “the president of joy.”
On Monday, the newspaper published a guest essay titled ‘Trump can win on character’, by conservative commentator Rich Lowry.
Pulling no punches, Lowry wrote that Harris is “weak and a phony and doesn’t truly care about the country or the middle class.”
Lowry attacked Harris’s record as Vice President, namely her failure to “secure the border or to address inflation. She doesn’t care if her tax policies will destroy jobs. She has been part of an administration that has seen real wages stagnate while minimizing the problem because the party line matters to her more than economic reality for working Americans,” he added.
