{"id":2342973,"date":"2024-09-18T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/right-the-one-word-that-gives-kamala-away-as-clueless\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:03:29","slug":"right-the-one-word-that-gives-kamala-away-as-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/right-the-one-word-that-gives-kamala-away-as-clueless\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Right?&#8217;: The One Word That Gives Kamala Away As Clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fright-the-one-word-that-gives-kamala-away-as-clueless%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=2342973&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>The text discusses Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s recent interview with\u200b the National Association of Black Journalists,\u200b emphasizing her halting\u2064 speech and the frequent use of the phrase &#8220;Right?&#8221; as a telltale sign of her uncertainty and lack of clear answers. The interviewer pressed \u200bher on potential solutions to gun violence, pushing her to articulate more substantial responses. Harris&#8217;s mention of funding mental health\u200d counselors in schools was seen as\u200c ineffectual. The author criticizes her overall lack \u200bof\u200c coherent answers, suggesting that\u200c her tendency to seek confirmation from interviewers indicates\u200b her discomfort with \u200cthe questions posed. The critique continues with a reflection on a previous interview with Axios, where her inability \u200bto provide a concrete response to the pandemic&#8217;s challenges suggested the\u2063 Biden administration lacked a genuine strategy for tackling the virus. \u2063the summary reflects a critical perspective on Harris&#8217;s communication style and her political effectiveness.  <\/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<div>\n<p>Other than her alarmingly strained, labored, and slow speech &mdash;&nbsp;what&rsquo;s that about? &mdash; there wasn&rsquo;t much remarkable about Kamala Harris&rsquo;s 45-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArtCandee\/status\/1836146691747254640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview Tuesday<\/a> in front of the National Association of Black Journalists. She did do this thing that always, without fail, gives herself away as stupefied and clueless about a simple question&rsquo;s answer.<\/p>\n<p><em>&ldquo;Right?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the single word out of Kamala&rsquo;s mouth that lets you know she&rsquo;s faking her way through an issue in hopes her sympathetic interviewer will help her along, giving some signal that he or she comprehends the absurdity drooling from Kamala&rsquo;s lips. At the NABJ interview, it went like this during a portion of the event related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-candidate-eric-greitens-discusses-policies-2a\/\" title=\"Senate candidate Eric Greitens discusses policies, 2A\">restricting gun ownership<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: &ldquo;Are there other solutions that you&rsquo;re also thinking about that will get at this issue?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kamala: &ldquo;Absolutely. For example, part of what we did with&mdash;&nbsp;so we, as vice president and with the president, we were able to pass the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-biden-claims-he-brought-together-democrats-and-republicans\/\" title=\"Lol: Biden Claims He &quot;Brought Together&quot; Democrats and Republicans\">meaningful gun safety legislation<\/a> in 30 years. And part of what that involved was millions and millions of dollars to put more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celebrate-the-truth-politifact-announces-festival-of-fact-checking-with-special-guests-anthony-fauci-and-cnns-brian-stelter\/\" title=\"\u2018Celebrate The Truth!\u2019 PolitiFact Announces \u2018Festival Of Fact-Checking,\u2019 With Special Guests Anthony Fauci and CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter\">mental health counselors<\/a> in public schools. [Pause filled with an audible hard swallow.] Right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This was the only moment during the entire, painful slog of an interview in which Kamala got meaningful pushback from her hosts. It was pushback from the political left of the issue, to be sure, but pushback nonetheless. She struggled with it, per usual, and in the same way as always. To compensate, she says, &ldquo;Right?&rdquo; in hopes of feedback that she hasn&rsquo;t lost everyone with her nonsense&mdash; a thoughtful nod or even an &ldquo;Mmm, yes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kamala went on to say, &ldquo;There are very few solutions that we haven&rsquo;t thought of. We need to put the resources into them.&rdquo; That is another way of saying, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have a real answer to that basic question, but please, oh please, take whatever I just said as one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another memorable &ldquo;Right?&rdquo; moment was early in her tenure as vice president, not even a month in, when during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Om3or2YwTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an interview<\/a> with Mike Allen of Axios, she was thrown this fastball: &ldquo;What are you finding is harder about the pandemic? Like, how are you finding the hole is deeper?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, that question was posed to the second-most-in-charge person of the new Biden administration, which was elected in no small part on the promise that it had a plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2020\/oct\/23\/joe-biden-coronavirus-shut-down-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;shut down the virus.&rdquo;<\/a> If it had been true, Kamala&rsquo;s answer could have been something like, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a challenge to carry out our solutions on such a massive scale, but we&rsquo;re making progress and new infections and deaths are already beginning to fall.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Except they had already been falling (before eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">setting record heights<\/a>) and the Kamala-Biden duo never had a real plan to &ldquo;shut down the virus.&rdquo; So instead, her answer began, &ldquo;I mean, the challenge, Mike, is, you know, what I explained to the mayors, um, there is no stockpile.&rdquo; She held her arms up in a wobbly shrug and stared blankly through her mask. &ldquo;Right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Asked to clarify the stockpile, Kamala said again, &ldquo;Of vaccines&mdash;&nbsp;right?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There would have never been a stockpile of vaccines. They were intentionally rushed from production to distribution. Imagine what would have been said about the Kamala-Biden administration&rsquo;s predecessors if there had: <em>&ldquo;Why were you hoarding vaccines while people are dying?!&rdquo;<\/em> But Kamala needed to say something and hoped her interviewer would assist in the effort. <em>Right?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A variation of this is when Kamala says, &ldquo;You know?&rdquo; In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9AunRg_V078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an interview<\/a> with an ABC affiliate in Philadelphia last week, she was asked about the extreme inflation her administration caused, and how she might reverse the problem she created. After describing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/03\/world\/canada\/kamala-harris-montreal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">comfortable Canadian upbringing<\/a> with a university professor mother as &ldquo;middle class,&rdquo; Kamala said, &ldquo;A lot of people will relate to this&mdash;&nbsp;I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn.&rdquo; She then nodded her head while staring at her interviewer for a sign that he might go with it. &ldquo;You know?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Surely the anchor understood the concept of a person being proud of his well-manicured lawn, but the suggestion &mdash;&nbsp;&ldquo;You know?&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;that he must know where Kamala was going with her insipid metaphor was another version of her self-defense mechanism, a cue to get the person she&rsquo;s speaking with to play along in hiding her ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s the Kamala telltale.<em> Right? You know?<\/em><\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from her noticeably strained, slow, and laborious speech\u2014what&#8217;s going on there?\u2014there wasn&#8217;t anything particularly noteworthy about Kamala Harris&#8217;s 45-minute interview on Tuesday with the National Association of Black Journalists. However, she did exhibit a behavior that consistently reveals her confusion and lack of understanding regarding straightforward questions. The word &#8220;Right?&#8221; is a telltale sign that she is struggling to navigate an issue and is hoping for some assistance or affirmation from her sympathetic interviewer, who might acknowledge the absurdity of what she&#8217;s saying. <\/p>\n<p>During the interview segment focused on gun ownership restrictions, when asked if there were other solutions being considered for this issue, Kamala responded: \u201cAbsolutely. For example, part of what we did with\u2014so we, as vice president and with the president, we were able to pass the first meaningful gun safety legislation in 30 years. And part of what that involved was millions and millions of dollars to put more mental health counselors in public schools.\u201d After a noticeable pause filled with an audible swallow, she added \u201cRight?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>This was one instance where she faced some pushback from her hosts\u2014albeit from those on the political left\u2014but it clearly flustered her as usual. To compensate for this discomfort, she often uses &#8220;Right?&#8221; in hopes that someone will signal they are still following along despite her vague responses\u2014a nod or even an \u201cMmm, yes\u201d would suffice.<\/p>\n<p>She continued by stating that there are very few solutions they haven&#8217;t considered and emphasized the need for resources to implement them. This essentially translates to: \u201cI don\u2019t have a solid answer to your basic question; please interpret my response as one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another notable moment occurred early in her vice presidency during an interview with Mike Allen from Axios when he posed a direct question about challenges related to the pandemic: \u201cWhat are you finding is harder about the pandemic? Like how are you finding the hole is deeper?\u201d Given that this inquiry was directed at someone second-in-command within an administration elected partly due to its promise to effectively manage COVID-19 (which included plans like &#8220;shutting down&#8221; the virus), one would expect a confident response highlighting progress made against new infections.<\/p>\n<p>However, since cases had already been declining before eventually spiking again\u2014and because there wasn\u2019t any real plan in place\u2014the best Kamala could muster was: \u201cI mean, the challenge Mike is\u2026you know\u2026what I explained to mayors\u2026um\u2026there\u2019s no stockpile.\u201d She shrugged uncertainly while gazing blankly through her mask before adding another hesitant &#8220;Right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed further about this supposed stockpile\u2014which never existed since vaccines were rushed into distribution\u2014she reiterated: \u201cOf vaccines\u2014right?\u201d If such a stockpile had existed under their administration\u2019s watchful eye while people suffered due to vaccine shortages during distribution chaos prior would have led critics questioning why they hoarded vaccines instead of distributing them promptly.<\/p>\n<p>A similar tactic appears when Kamala says phrases like &#8220;You know?&#8221; In a recent interview with an ABC affiliate discussing inflation caused by her administration&#8217;s policies\u2014and how she&#8217;d address it\u2014she described growing up comfortably middle class alongside university professor parents while sharing anecdotes about neighbors proud of their lawns. As she nodded at her interviewer seeking validation for this irrelevant metaphorical connection by asking him if he understood (\u201cYou know?\u201d), it became clear once again how these phrases serve as cues meant not only for reassurance but also as mechanisms designed defensively against revealing ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern has become characteristic behavior for Kamala Harris throughout various interviews; aside from those concerning issues surrounding speech delivery itself\u2014it raises questions worth pondering over time spent engaging audiences across different platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2342974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[19305,32438,32171],"class_list":["post-2342973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-clueless","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Kamala-Harris.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342973","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2342974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}