{"id":560690,"date":"2021-06-11T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=560690"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T14:37:18","slug":"media-says-criticism-of-kamala-harris-embarrassing-border-interview-result-of-racism-and-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-says-criticism-of-kamala-harris-embarrassing-border-interview-result-of-racism-and-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Says Criticism Of Kamala Harris\u2019 Embarrassing Border Interview Result Of \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019"},"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%2Fmedia-says-criticism-of-kamala-harris-embarrassing-border-interview-result-of-racism-and-sexism%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=560690&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343793.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>After NBC\u2019s Lester Holt embarrassed Kamala Harris by pointing out her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kamala-harris-just-showed-how-unprepared-she-is-once-the-media-starts-asking-tough-questions\">misleading comments<\/a> about visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, the legacy media have reverted to their standard role as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\">PR agents of the Democratic Party<\/a> by claiming that any criticism of the vice president is fraught with racism and sexism. Women, especially \u201cblack women, are often held to\u201d a \u201cstandard of perfection,\u201d said a guest on CNN\u2019s \u201cDon Lemon Tonight\u201d Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs she being held to a different standard?\u201d asked Don Lemon on his eponymous CNN show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVice President Harris is an historic figure, the first woman in her role. Is some of the criticism she\u2019s receiving related to that?\u201d he asked CNN political commentator Ashley Allison. \u201cIs she perhaps being judged by a different standard?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allison was only too happy to agree.<\/p>\n<p>While she admitted Harris\u2019 cackling and misleading claim that she had already been to the border \u201cwasn\u2019t a perfect answer,\u201d she called criticizing Harris for not visiting the border \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that her career, or her trip, or her substance should be criticized by one answer is often what happens to black women. We have a standard of perfection,\u201d Allison said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack women are often held to a different standard and are scrutinized at a level, called defensive, called flippant, called all these things, because we get one thing wrong,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon agreed that hypercriticism is \u201coften something that happens to women, especially women who are in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same thing \u201chappened with Hillary Clinton who is a white woman,\u201d Lemon said. \u201cThey talked about her voice, and that she was defensive, and she was robotic and whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turning the conversation back to Harris, CNN\u2019s national political reporter Maeve Reston said, \u201cShe\u2019s held to a higher standard and \u2026 she needs to continue to point it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, Lemon and Reston both ultimately said Harris should have had a better answer to the predictable question. Reston initially called the vice president\u2019s answer \u201cflippant\u201d and \u201cdefensive,\u201d apparently triggering Allison\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon made but one of many such media defenses of Harris, seen by some as the president-in-waiting while serving as vice president to the oldest president in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d\u00a0made Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haas laugh on the air when she said Kamala Harris deserves \u201csome credit\u201d for all the times she <em>didn\u2019t<\/em> screw up on camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get it, it wasn\u2019t the greatest answer. [I\u2019m] not defending that,\u201d Brzezinski <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/mark-finkelstein\/2021\/06\/09\/msnbc-comedy-mika-border-boss-kamala-deserves-some-credit\">told<\/a> Haas. \u201cBut she\u2019s on these trips meeting with these world leaders, talking about the origins of why these people want to leave their countries, and she\u2019s getting nailed on whether or not she\u2019s been to the U.S.-Mexico border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get it, her answer could have been better,\u201d Brzezinski repeated. \u201cBut isn\u2019t the question about what is happening on these trips?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that the media should focus on asking, \u201cWhat are the tough conversations that she\u2019s having with these leaders about why people want to leave and what do we know about what happened there?\u201d Such negotiations occur in a \u201cvery difficult, I\u2019d say almost impossible-to-navigate landscape, when you\u2019re dealing with countries that have a lot of corruption, that have a lot of reasons why people want to leave, and\u00a0she\u2019s going there and getting in their faces,\u201d said Brzezinski, the daughter of Jimmy Carter\u2019s Secretary of State, Zbigniew Brzezinski. \u201cDoesn\u2019t she deserve some credit for that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haas briefly laughed on the air at the suggestion, although he then agreed with her general assessment.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rsByeimFJ5w&#038;start=2290&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rsByeimFJ5w&amp;start=2290&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, on Wednesday\u2019s \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d senior White House and political correspondent Ed O\u2019Keefe dismissed the entire line of questioning as a veritable Republican witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, this issue of whether or not to go to the border is rooted in pure politics,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/scott-whitlock\/2021\/06\/09\/hacks-cbs-border-backlash-against-harris-just-gop-pure-politics\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe GOP knows Harris remains a popular rival and may one day run for president herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vice president viewed the trip as a success, and she did demonstrate an ability to go toe-to-toe with world leaders,\u201d he said, although those meetings took place behind closed doors and few details have yet to emerge from them. \u201cBut her inability to more quickly bat away criticism of critics clouded the focus of the trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After NBC\u2019s Lester Holt embarrassed Kamala Harris by pointing out her misleading comments about visiting the U.S.-Mexico border, the legacy media have reverted to their standard role as PR agents &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280007,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343793.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Media Says Criticism Of Kamala Harris\u2019 Embarrassing Border Interview Result Of \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343793.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Media Says Criticism Of Kamala Harris\u2019 Embarrassing Border Interview Result Of \u2018Racism And Sexism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560690","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}