I don’t know what to expect, but a one-on-two interview of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz by CNN anchor Dana Bash seems more than a bit odd.
CNN’s Dana Bash to Interview Harris and Walz on Thursday
The New York Times reports CNN’s Dana Bash to Interview Harris and Walz on Thursday
Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to her first major interview since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president five weeks ago.
Ms. Harris will appear on CNN alongside her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, for a joint interview on Thursday in Georgia. Dana Bash, the CNN anchor who co-moderated the debate in June between President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump, will conduct the interview.
CNN plans to tape the joint appearance on Thursday afternoon and air it that evening at 9 Eastern time.
The question of where and when Ms. Harris would sit for an extensive discussion with the mainstream media has started to loom over her candidacy. She has shown little enthusiasm for speaking with reporters in unscripted settings, outside of a handful of impromptu sessions on the campaign trail that left little opportunity for sustained questioning about her policy plans.
Ms. Bash, 53, the anchor of “Inside Politics” on CNN, started at the network as a producer shortly after graduating from college; she has been a stalwart of the channel’s campaign coverage since 2000. Ms. Bash and Mr. Tapper received praise for their efforts at the June debate, where they played a muted role as the candidates clashed onstage.
Harris needs to explain her price gouging plans, tariff plans, EV plans, and her flip-flops on fracking, Medicare for all, and the Green New Deal.
In 2019 Harris told voters “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” How about we start there given Pennsylvania is the second largest US exporter or natural gas.
I will withhold judgement on the cream puffiness of the interview depending on questions and how much time is devoted to Walz who should ne be in this interview at all.
When Kamala starts to falter, cameras will go to Tim.
He might be busy re-filling the tampon machine in the men’s room at CNN hq.
There is no need for that. It is a “taped” infomercial. They will have their best people editing the afternoon interview for the evening broadcast.
It will be one of the wettest tongue baths Kamala has ever received. I hope tampon Tim brings some beach towels. I wonder if he will mansplain anything to her or vice versa.
Kamala : we proposed tariff on steel and key industries, focusing on China and Russia. My plan is different than Trump’s plan.Trump plans to impose tariffs on all countries. Trump is a threat to our democracy. We are saving our democracy from him and MAGA. We didn’t reduce the secret service in Butler PA. Don’t be funny. We aren’t responsible for Trump assassination attempt.
Well it couldn’t be worse than the fawning interview fielded by Adam Taggart.
What a joke. She can’t even do a pre-recorded interview by herself. Imagine her negotiating with Netanyahu or Xi Xinping. The world is laughing at the United States.
The media eliminated the woke snakes and the muscles men and turned white, sometime a 100% white. Dana and Jack are white and Jewish. Kamala turned her back on the Obama’s. Their mistakes : the ignored the Latinos which are growing faster than blacks. The illegal compete with them.
Tim dives into the threesome … errrrrr.
Expectations:
CNN cares about ratings but will not be out to sabotage the ticket.
The interviewees will have vetted the questions beforehand and have pre-prepared answers.
Delay between recording and broadcast will allow “bad” moments to be edited out.
how do u know
In the current world of lies and propaganda, obviously I don’t “know”. But:
(1) derived from CNN’s financial self-interest and recent behaviors
(2) based on numerous reports for similar events, most well-known being the debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
(3) for an event of this importance to the nation, that’s the only reason I can think of to avoid doing a proper “live” interview.
I’m betting on an even tougher interview than a FOX network interview with Trump and/or Vance.
maybe … but your logic falls apart when considering a trump/cnn and harris/fox pair of hypothetical interviews … fox would be more fair to harris than cnn would be to trump.
fox has never promoted state sponsored lies about harris … cnn has made a business of doing that towards trump consistently since the elevator.
The whole thing is “a bit odd”.
Why are they hosting a joint interview with an incumbent vice president, and a random governor, and not the now invisible president?!
The very obvious first question should be..
“How is the president?”
Because if he’s not fit to run or be in charge, then she is supposed to be the president already.
The next obvious question is:
“Why doesn’t she do any of her proposals whilst she is currently in office?”
What are the voters actually being asked to vote for?
More of the same or something new, and if it’s new, why do they have to wait 6 months for it?!
This is the weirdest, managed, non-election in American history… There’s absolutely nothing normal about it. It’s not acceptable either.
Ignoring the nomination votes they engineered to install an unpopular candidate who is already in office, with a sitting president who is clearly medically unfit for work, and should be 25th’d long ago, whilst bombarding the main alternative candidate with relentless dubious legal cases.
The whole thing looks like a giant, messy, incompetent bureaucratic coup d’état by the American civil service, no doubt with all kinds of shady financial backers.
“A bit odd”?!
It’s all very weird…
Timmy is the weak link. He is weird, a diversion. If Dana waste time and focus on Timmy she spares Kamala.
Timmy is creepy. Maybe he can takeover for Joe with the child smelling responsibilities.
Maybe we should post the questions we wish would be asked:
Are you going to keep Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken in their current jobs?
Will you order US forces to fight in Ukraine or against Hezbollah or Iran?
Do you support reparations for American descendants of enslaved people?
So let me get this straight. The coup that handed the candidacy to Mrs. Harris, and took no interviews, will now have a “joint” interview on the network which is the propaganda arm of the Dem party, edit that interview for most positive impact, and then air it. Talk about a beauty pageant. But there’s a catch – the puppet gets to bring her voice coach. Gotta say – dems’ plans are working quite well. They should be proud.
No. Why?
CNN rating is down. Dana has to save CNN, not Kamala and Timmy. It will not be a
laughing hour. Kamala and Timmy already knocked off Trump’s plan. Dana will exposed the diversion between her progressive history and her current plan. Is Kamala smart enough to survive Dana without laughing : yes !
Big corporations (like Warner Brothers Discovery – which owns CNN) run their news networks at a loss in order to promote their agenda. CNN doesn’t have to be “saved”. Losing money is a trivial business expense for Warner Bros. Same with the WaPo – owned by Bezos. Bash might try to win a couple of credibility points with a couple of “tough” questions, but she won’t cause Biden Harris any real problem. (I’m changing her first name from Kamala to Biden.)
I’ll see the clips on the news and read the post analysis by pundits, but i don’t watch CNN.
Nobody does – unless they’re in an airport.
Interview will be quite substantial– Like marshmallows melting around the campfire.
Betteridge’s law of headlines
So you are not expecting a cream puff interview?
And do you speak for everyone?
The world has already witnessed the most media controlled president in history. He barely speaks without the throng of “advisers” around, and you can scarcely imagine any TV “event” not being saturated with the same”advisors” to police the media – not that they need to. Their whole MO is to try and control outcomes, and (now revealed by Zuckerberg) the message and public discourse.
Poor Kamala needs a middle-aged white man to do a cream-puff interview! C’mon Mish, you know Dana won’t be tough on her like she was with JD Vance!
Critics will note any difference in how Dana conducts the interview.
Mish ; Harris is doing the same type of election that Hobbs did in Arizona. Run out the clock , no real town halls , debate maybe. They must be counting on Ballot harvesting like in 2020. So its true they “Cheat”
“vote for what I am, not who i am or what i do”
Hobbs campaign in Arizona and this national election are very different. I agree that the Hobbs un-campaign worked, but things are different in this large, diverse and highly visible arena. Biden had the Covid pandemic to keep the light off him and then the fraud was focused on a limited number of states. This time Harris so far has no such camouflage and it won’t work.
Question: The question of where and when Ms. Harris would sit for an extensive discussion with the mainstream media has started to loom over her candidacy.
She has shown very little enthusiasm for speaking with reporters in unscripted settings, that left little opportunity for sustained questioning about her policy plans.
Answer: CNN plans to tape the joint appearance on Thursday afternoon and air it that evening at 9 Eastern time.
– So when and where is, When a friendly interview situation arises, with her very, very good friend for example.
– The zero desire to do unscripted or holy cow a Live Setting. So a Taped Show, with Editing and Changes able Too Be Done. Then show it later that night (9:00pm) to keep the viewer ship down!
– Unscripted, so do the interview with a dear Friend. Done!
– Questions decided before hand, and reviews together. Done!
See how easy this is…
It will probably include retakes…
The media’s job isn’t to seek truth or even question everything, its job is to get Harris elected. Knowing this, how can this “interview” be anything but a pr piece?
There will be 1 or maybe 2 “hard questions” that can be used as the lede and spread all over to give the impression of “Fair and balanced” but they will be dropped like a hot pancake as soon as they are stated. The interviewer won’t probe or ask follow up questions in the same vein.
They’ve been doing this since the 1980’s, is anyone surprized or even expecting anything resembling David Frost spending an hour discussing policies, past behaviours, etc?
They certainly don’t seem too concerned about their share price or revenues. Who is waiting in the wings to bail them out?
Wouldn’t it be something if the free market invaded the situation as CNN executives, waking up to the fact that the way they have been doing things has rendered the company worthless, decide to change their slant on the news? Sigh…I know…it ain’t gonna happen.
They must have a buyer lined up.
My neighbor who used to work under Kamala said she was always “handled” by three men(as opposed to her handling men’s privates). She shook hands with employees as AG of CA and that’s the last he massed of her. As opposed to Jerry Brown’s hands on management. She is a product of the DNC. A total empty pantsuit.
Doubtless there won’t be any questions regarding US code 241 for 2 or more persons conspiring to violate the civil rights to life and liberty of other persons by failing to enforce the laws with deaths involved and requiring the death penalty if convicted.
That’s gonna be a long list of prosecutions.
I think CNN will do whatever they can to make it go as smoothly as possible. She’ll have the questions in advance and they won’t challenge her on anything.
Bodyguard, maybe?
I agree it should be her only – she’s the one running for President.
CNN made an attempt at Biden -Trump debate to ask a few questions pertaining to a Journalist third party approach.
There is no future if they softball the interview, for CNN. Company has already been written off.
Tapper is not involved and Bash may become the Face of a different future for CNN.
MSNBC already holds the throne for TDS audience which means CNN has no following from center right, little from Center and play second fiddle to TDS central.
If they do a fair interview as Journalist of left of center perhaps they will regain some audience. I would be sorta shocked if CNN went full Fourth Estate.
Since backpedaling of far left progressive Harris is underway suggests CNN could play a roll in redefining Harris-Walz.
I dont think you understand the role of “media” in current usa republic, it is a branch of the government, it lives by government leaks, it is a defacto arm of the government. and that government is staunchly democratic if you’ve noticed nothing in the past decades, surely the leftward tilt that causes us to all walk a bit skewed must be causing back problems by now…
Much of what you say has been true.
The results is a major loss write down for the parent company.
Since those who buy Politicians like the Parent Company, do so to make money. It is organized crime right out of the God Father movie series.
Press being lapdogs for politicians is proving costly, thus it is in the Bad Business category to continue doing so. It always has been about the money.
Mass media is three ring circus to bring in advertisement money. That is what they sell. If general audience as it is now doing, sees thru the Bull, does not bring in viewership, the Business model is failed.
CNN is not indispensable if they keep losing viewership and money. They have to change course. That they did so in first Biden-Trump debate was first move away from where they have been going.
Both parties end up in a better place, CNN gets redefined left of Center, builds credibility in that category and regains viewers.What Harris gets out of interview is rebranded. Win Win for both actors.
It is just Business, nothing personal, just Business.
Mass media just anther form of reality TV.
If a person wants real journalism they would go to alternative media.
For the spelling sticklers I missed the o in another and posted it as anther.
Theory: Bash is the Prize, so if Bash and Kamala, as good friends, can come together and write a beautiful Q&A for a terrific interview for the MSM to proudly say: “Best Ever” If it goes well enough, Bash will be the New CNN Presidential Reporter, and Harris will Only Do Interviews with Her!!!
CNN gets a chance to become relevant once again. Harris gets to hide behind an organization tied deeply with Her, and if Harris has success CNN has success, Last Chance perhaps?
This also may be the Only Way for Harris to have a shot at this point…
That’s pretty much how I see it. My post more an exercise if am reading this election correctly. Interview has to come off as Legitimate Q+A
Another thing which comes to mind is money part.
Dems going off the rails at convention with taking sides against Israel. So which is more important Money from Jewish Pacs or no money from Gaza?
Not too hard to understand why Dems must now repackage Harris.
RFK Jr. in an interview when asked about if he felt alone, basically said there were others. Dems are a fractured party trying to put Bubblegum on the fissure.
They will review all the questions that seem important enough to discuss, that have answers sufficient or able to be manipulated into addressing the question, but a word salad.
Don’t forget there is no rush, so she may answer only 8-10 questions, if that. They can say it was such a warm interview with so much to discuss, and with the complexity and all…
Money is Never problem, once you’re down to 2 Candidates. You have 2 sides, with Many Wealthy People who want their way. They spend there money on the side closet to there agendas, and all of it that they have that can be spent, will be.
RFK Jr. Is now irrelevant, except the voting damage, it appears that he will do, against the Democrat Party, hence Kamala.
Musk or Ramaswamy to buy CNN for $1?
Odds?
Since I do not invest in Media will wait for whatever the news breaks.
Dana ‘Bash’ was nothing but a scowling Karen during the JD Vance interview- I bet she’s all smiles and giggles for Kamala.
likely they’ll share a tank of nitrous in the green room before going on air..
Kamala is going to give CNN the questions to ask. This won’t be an interview. It will be a joke.
but like Bill Maher’s standup , a bad joke that isn’t funny.
Kamala is unable to speak unscripted in public without major verbal gaffes. She is an artificial candidate who will be kept under wraps by the DNC until after Nov. 5.
It’s hard for me to come up with ANY job she would be capable of filling.
so basically Joe Biden in blackface and a dress?
There are plenty of jobs she could do. Well, there were when she was Willie Brown’s side piece.
Possible October Surprises:
1: “She bites,” Willie Horton.
2: “Jill told me to hire her.” Joe Biden
3: Elon Musk launches nuclear missiles from space and achieves global domination.
1. He told her no teeth
2. She said “Sniff”
3. No, it was The “Internet”
Before we interview, perhaps we should decide what job we’re hiring for. Let’s imagine we’re hiring positions for the school our kids go to.
For example:
BIden: We’ll assume he doesn’t molest the kids, but seriously, would you hire him as a school crossing guard? For your kids, no way.
Okay, so…
Kamala Harris : Given her skill level, language effectiveness, and caring nature, she’d qualify as a school counselor.
MIke Walz: Not classroom instruction, or ROTC, but he might be good as PE coach.
Donald Trump : loud mouth, make our schools great, and knows how to create value in buildings; he could try fundraising for the school’s new football arena, but likely to piss off 57% of the donors. Besides, he’s better at managing the construction project.
JD Vance: he’d make a great vice-principal (no shortage of discipline) and ROTC, football coach, for sure.
perhaps put away you school years, bury your glory, its over. The real world does not resemble a school in any way, thats why schools are so terrible at preparing youth for real life.
a better analogy would be a functioning viable business, the dems would run charities that use all the funds for themselves and blame everyone but themselves. So Kamala would be a fund raiser,she’s chatty and will say whatever people want to hear to give her money.
Biden would be the nonprofit CEO, funneling the donations overseas to his many Bahamian trusts.
Mike Walz, a guy really proud that he got a corner office, and no desire to chance a rise up the chain, so all his days spent figuring out how to remain static in a dynamic world.
Trump, would be CEO of a world wide money making business,used to solving problems daily, no fear of his enemies, but understanding and using them against each other.
Vance, would be a home builder that started as a carpenter or carrying concrete blocks, and learned the ins and outs. Knows how to deal with the building trades, the banks, and the home buyers, he is working on building his way to a nationwide construction company, that sells to every price point and market and knows how to make a comfortable margin on every sale.
You’re way too serious for a Gwako Mole. Try some of this:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dear-democrats-things-are-not-looking-good
Why Walz? Kamala has been the most competant person on the ticket for four years now. I guess she still thinks she will look smarter with an old white man in the room.
Why CNN? They are desperate for ratings and will do anything 😉 to make Kamala look good.
When she can’t think of anything to say, Walz will chime in. It’s an admission that she’s not up to the job – which is obvious.
I am expecting a hard hitting interview. It’s easy to prepare when you give CNN the questions ahead of time.
Somebody needs to make a video of the famous Australian song “Waltzing Kamala.”
https://youtu.be/FqtttbbYfSM?si=TDjwblTET0k7651M
No way am I turning off my ad-blocker to hear Slim.
All very well rehearsed and choreographed. This has got to go down in history as the “hold your nose and vote” election. This should have been easy for Trump, he just cannot get out of his own way. Probably the best we can all hope for is a R congress and government gridlock for the next 4 years. Bring back Newt!
Trump has HIS BELIEVERS that also detect the stink, but there will be no way to SWAY THEM AWAY. Our Niece told us yesterday that her KIDS hate HARRIS (17 and 19 years old) and feel like she is being “escorted the whole way.” THEY ALSO KNOW THAT WALZ is a Commie. KIDS ARE ALERT and not tainted by years of effective conditioning by either party.
Interesting. My grandchildren are saying the same.
Even if they won’t vote for Trump, they may stay home or vote for Jill Stein.
Is Jill Stein related to Ein Stein, or Frank N. Stein?
Taped earlier? They’ll just edit all the stupidity out.
D, it is PRE-SCRIPTED, so for sure there will be strange commercial breaks and VIDEO INTERRUPTS. That will be your clue.
I cannot watch POLITICS or TV INTERVIEWS any longer as they are nauseatingly obvious to me. MY WIFE LAUGHS out loudly at TRUMP because he IS a character for sure.
I personally cannot stand any of it and do not vote at all unless it is a NO on a new BOND issuance in my COUNTY. THEN I WILL MAKE THE DRIVE.
you will likely find the next decade to be very difficult, suggest you throw away your tv, and dedicate your thoughts to living in the real world, rather than the one TV makes in your brain.
So just show the commercials.
its all commercials, even the programming is a commercial for Kamala, a love story of a poor black child who rose to become Commander in Chief of the greatest war machine in the world and then sold it to her communist friends in China, that Joe introduced her to. Be sure to buy some Kamala, next time you go shopping for a new leader. Now with even more TimWalz oozing with white liberal guilt.
We would like to introduce our two most distinguished guests tonight, Command Sergeant Major, Governor and Vice President, Tim Walz, and her Majesty, President of the United States and Empress of the Earth, Kamala Harris! … Something like that.
The only element of supplication will be the HAND ROLLING AND BOWING, like that would be in front of the KING or QUEEN of some DICTATORSHIP…you know, the MOVIE THING we have seen.
Wait, CNN proved that Trump colluded with Russia, didn’t they? They were constantly reporting on it so it must have been true.
OH, YEAH, that’s right. I ALMOST MISSED THAT. 😉
Somehow, someway, this interview will progress into a Trump bashing.
CLEVER USE OF “BASH” – ing.
She is bringing reality back to us uncouth Americans, releasing her “Walzing Matilda” theme song, but with new lyrics.
Nobody has seen Joe Biden recently. Is it he that Ms. Harris has stuffed into her matilda?
Not quite. The new strategy is not creampuff questions, it is to ask about real issues, but then accept/not challenge the BS answers. Thereby allowing them to imply she addressed them.
…and then listeners become conditioned and use those same techniques to “SELF HYPNOTIZE” the belief system..
This is called “CONDITIONED RESPONSES” and VOTERS ARE MESMERIZED by the “pet phrases” and thought patterns of THEIR RESPECTIVE PARTY.
I constantly listen to my DAD’s PARROTING of the REPUBLICAN PARTY “POINTS.” SINCE I HAVE TAUGHT MYSELF TO DETECT THE STINKY POINTS, I AM ON HIGH ALERT FOR THEM.
“WALZ IS A CCP MAN” IS THE CURRENT ONE FOR OUR RED ONES. THE BLUE IDIOTS THINK HE IS A GENIUS CUZ HE WAS A TEACHER, YADA-YADA-YADA!
think your CAPS LOCK KEY is stuck…
Cream puff, soft ball, throw her a bone, etc. They will all apply and then sum.
She’ll know the questions and they’ll edit the hell out of it for zero gaffs.
My guess is that at her worst, it will take 5 takes to get a semi-coherent answer.
OH, I got a bone to throw her… but it is limp. She provokes blood thickening and softness.
So, I just use it to excuse myself and find relief at a toilet.
My long lost pal, Peter (AUSSIE) would say: “I would not F her with YOUR DICK.”
I’m sure the interview will showcase how much “fun” Walz and Harris are having with lots of laughs. The two will look like silly high schoolers giggling. And of course, Walz will repeat the only phrase he has, “mind your own damn business.”
New Zealand is totally f678ed… if you live there get out now… I had some of the proceeds of a property sale parked there — shifted every last dime out…
This is going to wreck the economy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/new-zealand-s-net-zero-green-energy-disaster-is-a-terrible-warning/ar-AA1ptbCE
Australia, Canada, New Zealand all test beds for the new world order, they aren’t the countries you remember from the 20th century.
Oh how sweet. She has someone to hold her hand during the interview. The lady is a joke. Maybe Donna Brazil can be resurrected at CNN and give them all the questions ahead of time.
“Let her CRYYYYY cuz she’s a LADY…” (WILDFLOWER SONG).
great song!
No need for Donna Brazil. The questions will be GIVEN to CNN ahead of time.
Of course it’ll be a bunch of softball questions.
The fact that Walz will be there with her and the interview is taped tells you all you need to know…she has zero charisma and can’t speak off-the-cuff. Everything for her has to be set in a controlled environment else she goes down in flames.
CNN will probably give her five takes to tell you why she’ll be an effective leader, even though everyone knows she’s just middle management material at best.
MY MIDDLE MANAGERS were the GROOMED ONES and Kamala would have been stuck in the FILING ROOM and even then, she would have misfiled KEY CLIENT INVOICES, etc.
CNN is a branch of the Democrat Party and will interview them accordingly.
CNN IS THE ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION of the BLUE PARTY.
FOX is THE ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION of the RED PARTY.
Colbert says CNN is objective and even his own audience breaks out in laughter.
You will see the SOFTEST questions from Bash to help Harris campaign..
I expect nothing negative to be asked of Harris..
She needs her Training Walzs on for the first interview. Sweet, I wonder if she’ll wear a helmet as well?