SiriusXM podcast star Megyn Kelly destroyed Vice President Kamala Harris for focusing on inane subjects rather than talking about what policies she will pursue that are beneficial to the American people during a softball interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle that aired on Wednesday. Specifically, Kelly ripped Harris for continually talking about her “middle-class” upbringing and her mother’s hard work, as though that should qualify her for arguably the most powerful position on the planet.
“Then she finishes it off with — we didn’t play this — but, ‘I come from the middle class. My mother raised my sister and me; she worked hard.’ No one gives a shit about your mother; they care about themselves. Stop talking about your mother [and] start talking about the people who are actually suffering,” Kelly said. “So the only thing she said in the whole answer, and this was at the very end, was, ‘So my vision for the economy is let’s deal with some of the everyday challenges that people face and address them with common sense solutions.’ And then we got these four words — such as, yes, what? Affordable housing — okay?”
Kelly continued: “Affordable housing, she’s going to solve that. We’re not sure how, but she’s mentioned a $25,000 tax break for first-time home buyers only. So if you’ve already owned a home you’re effed. If you’re struggling to pay your mortgage, but it happens to be your second home you’re effed. That’s it. And then she wants to somehow create more houses — we don’t know how.”
Harris frequently highlights her middle-class background and her mother’s influence when discussing her economic policies. In a September 13 interview with 6ABC Philadelphia’s Action News, she veered off-topic, reflecting on her upbringing and suburban lawns while trying to outline her plans for making life more affordable.
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In August, Kelly shredded critics of Trump over comments he made at an event this week for black journalists after several people commented about his appearance and the fact that the group even invited him, suggesting he should not be able to speak to black journalists a certain way.
“To me, it’s so funny. All [of the] white liberals being like, ‘Ah! He’s horrible.’ And then you had actual black people all over Twitter, watching it posting videos of themselves watching it and tweeting about it being like, ‘And?’… He goes into the lion’s den and this reporter Rachel Scott from ABC News, decides to open up the event with the nastiest question she could dream of,” Kelly said during a show segment on Thursday following Trump’s Wednesday appearance.
“And I will just tell you as a journalist who has asked Trump very hard questions, I thought this was grossly inappropriate. It’s not a presidential debate. That is not how you begin an interview. He does not – unlike a presidential debate – have to be there. There’s an understanding of presidential debates in the primary contest that you will be there, at least back then when it was unclear he was going to win it anyway. This is an interview, he doesn’t have to be there. Kamala Harris wasn’t there,” she continued.
“He’s doing you a courtesy showing up. So you can ask some tough questions, but there should be a crescendo and decrescendo. And by the way, the question should be fact-based and she put a lot of non-facts in her question as though they were true. So I did have a problem with what she did, though I liked tough questions as a general principle…” the host said.
“I wasn’t aware as a journalist myself of the rule that you cannot attack black journalists. I’m just now finding this out that they are too fragile, I guess for us to call them names. Does the black skin make them just completely weak and unable to take criticism because that’s not true of the amazing black journalists I know. And that I’ve worked with, I don’t know who she’s talking about,” she added.
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