{"id":2271552,"date":"2024-06-19T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-roasted-after-bragging-about-welcoming-bearded-man-in-a-dress-to-the-white-house-so-embarrassing\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T13:43:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T17:43:48","slug":"kamala-harris-roasted-after-bragging-about-welcoming-bearded-man-in-a-dress-to-the-white-house-so-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-roasted-after-bragging-about-welcoming-bearded-man-in-a-dress-to-the-white-house-so-embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Criticized for Celebrating Bearded Man in Dress at White House: &#8216;So Embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-roasted-after-bragging-about-welcoming-bearded-man-in-a-dress-to-the-white-house-so-embarrassing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2271552&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vice President \u200cKamala Harris faced\u2064 criticism \u200cafter posting a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X from a meeting \u200cwith cast members of the Netflix\u200d show &#8220;Queer Eye.&#8221; The video,\u200c which showcased \u200bHarris interacting humorously with the \u200ccast,\u200d including Jonathan Van\u200c Ness wearing a dress, was labeled\u2062 embarrassing by\u2063 conservative Malaysian journalist Ian \u2064Miles Cheong \u200cand \u200dother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagon-blasted-for-failing-five-audits-and-missing-61-of-assets-all-gone-to-zelensky\/\" title=\"Pentagon criticized for 5 audit failures, 61% asset loss blamed on Zelensky.\">social media \u2064users<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argued that the video exemplified the Democratic Party&#8217;s tendency to pander to\u2063 various groups without addressing\u2063 substantial issues. The interaction in the video was critiqued for perpetuating stereotypes and mocked the sincerity of discussing important rights \u2063or progress. Harris pointed to her past attendance \u200cat significant civil rights events as part of her track\u200d record, amidst displaying Queen\u200c Eye&#8217;s \u200bcast helping highlight\u2064 LGBTQI+ community&#8217;s progress over the last 20 \u200cyears. However, detractors \u200ddismissed these gestures as performative, \u2064insincere, and disconnected from the essential concerns of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>The article \u2062encapsulates this event in a broader discussion about identity politics, suggesting that these public displays might be alienating to some while failing\u200c to contribute meaningfully to the dialogue on civil rights and gender \u200bidentity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/%20\"><span>Michael Schwarz<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 19, 2024 at 9:34am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Just when it seemed that Vice President Kamala Harris could not make herself more absurd, she rose to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>In a post Tuesday on the social media platform X, Harris incurred ridicule after sharing a 35-second video of a meeting in her office with cast members from the Netflix reality show \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7259746\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queer Eye<\/a>,\u201d including the bearded Jonathan Van Ness, who showed up wearing a dress.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Miles Cheong, a conservative Malaysian journalist with more than 1 million followers on X, spoke for millions more when he described the Harris video as \u201cso embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the entire scene felt like a parody of Democrats\u2019 notorious proclivity for pandering to alleged victims of oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Four seconds into the nauseating video there came a knock at the vice president\u2019s office door. In an obviously scripted moment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-nightmare-opponent-greatest-threat-vp-debate-former-aide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris<\/a> answered to find Van Ness and three other cast members waiting outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan we talk?\u201d the bearded man said in an effeminate voice. Hand and facial gestures helped perpetuate his grotesque caricature of what he perceives as femininity.<\/p>\n<p>A montage of Harris hugging Van Ness and the other cast members ensued. One man made a joke about resisting the urge to open furniture drawers. \u201cIt\u2019s in our DNA,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/panicking-leftists-claim-gabbards-used-russians-destroyed-kamala-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggressively prosecuted marijuana-related offenses<\/a> and sent people to jail in large numbers while serving as a <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/history\/32harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California district attorney<\/a>, proceeded to show the men a photograph of her at the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama, scene of the legendary 1965 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloody Sunday<\/a>\u201d march for voting rights, which the vice president perhaps regarded as evidence of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-claims-yet-another-arrest-wapo-calls-it-a-whopper-of-a-lie\/\" title=\"Biden Claims Yet Another Arrest; WaPo Calls It A \u2018Whopper\u2019 Of A Lie\">civil rights credentials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In an accompanying post, Harris celebrated what she described as the \u201chard-fought progress the LGBTQI+ community has made in the past 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QueerEye?\">@QueerEye<\/a> joined me at the White House to discuss the hard-fought progress the LGBTQI+ community has made in the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for a meaningful conversation, for giving my office your stamp of approval, and for being fabulous. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L3pzaYpo1W\">pic.twitter.com\/L3pzaYpo1W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP\/status\/1803175779259265468?\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Social media users found little reason to celebrate the appalling video.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1803269913769054548?\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re the laughing stock of planet Earth<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LangmanVince\/status\/1803231400381800884?\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m glad you\u2019re focused on what most Americans are truly concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Don\u2019t Tread on Memes (@donttreadmemes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/donttreadmemes\/status\/1803239064163791107?\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is gross. Stop trying to turn everything gay. We need masculine men and feminine women, not these weak and gay things.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Valentina Gomez (@ValentinaForSOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValentinaForSOS\/status\/1803176094004039731?\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-polling-devastating-news-kamala-harris-presidential-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris\u2019<\/a> video is not that it is repellent, for that is a matter of taste, but that the entire spectacle \u2014 all of it \u2014 is a lie.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the \u201cQueer Eye\u201d show itself refutes the whole notion of \u201chard-fought progress\u201d in the last 20 years. After all, the show\u2019s predecessor, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0358332\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queer Eye for the Straight Guy<\/a>,\u201d ran on television from 2003 to 2007, and mobs of pitchfork-wielding bigots never materialized.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Is Kamala Harris the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-good-decision-greg-gutfeld-says-sending-vp-harris-to-help-newsom-is-like-asking-charlie-sheen-to-be-your-aa-sponsor\/\" title=\"\u2018Not A Good Decision\u2019: Greg Gutfeld Says Sending VP Harris To Help Newsom Is Like Asking Charlie Sheen To Be Your AA Sponsor\">worst vice president<\/a> of the 21st century?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In other words, Americans who struggled with same-sex attraction or gender confusion 20 years ago did not face widespread hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Americans who favor genuine decency have no wish to persecute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tearful-mom-begs-school-board-change-daughters-secret-trans-counseling-hulking-man-dress-steps-mic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">men in dresses<\/a>. Those decency-loving Americans simply prefer that everyone keep their sexual fetishes private rather than parading them around as if they constitute a civil rights issue or the whole of a person\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing a man in a dress does not empower heterosexual men to commit violence against him. But it also does not require anyone to assent to the dress-wearing man\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/students-rise-schools-transgender-bathroom-policy-walk-class-protest-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil rights-related claims<\/a>. Nor does it require anyone to refer to the man in the dress as a woman, which he clearly is not.<\/p>\n<p>Harris wants you to believe these and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kamala-harris-wants-trump-disqualified-conviction-fails-save-bidens-election-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some social media users, at least, have grown tired of the charade.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. Will you help us fight? 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Please don\u2019t let the America-hating left win. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Stand with us today<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"after-article-tags\">\n<p>  Tags:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" rel=\"tag\">Biden administration<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/culture\/\" rel=\"tag\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" rel=\"tag\">Democrats<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/homosexual-agenda\/\" rel=\"tag\">Homosexual agenda<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/homosexuality\/\" rel=\"tag\">Homosexuality<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/identity-politics\/\" rel=\"tag\">Identity politics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" rel=\"tag\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/lgbt\/\" rel=\"tag\">LGBT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" rel=\"tag\">Social media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/us-news\/\" rel=\"tag\">U.S. News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" rel=\"tag\">White House<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tag\/x-post\/\" rel=\"tag\">X post<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45760\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45760\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45760\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45760\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45760\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Michael Schwarz, June 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris faced ridicule after posting a 35-second video on social media platform X. The video, showing a meeting in her office with cast members, led to widespread mockery, highlighting another instance where Harris seemingly amplified her penchant for the absurd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2271553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Harris-Van-Ness.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Harris-Van-Ness.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}