“Viewers are going to come away saying, ‘Wow, she’s willing to do [the Bret Baier interview]. That’s a sign of toughness.’”
— Brian Stelter, CNN, Wednesday
We say: Give us a break!
Harris’ dodge of every question Bret Baier asked in Wednesday’s interview was a sign of weakness, not “toughness.”
Viewers could plainly see she was wholly unable to defend her record. Nor did her go-to response — Trump bad — hide that.
Too bad for Stelter and the left that Americans aren’t as dumb as they’d like them to be.
“The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes.”
— ABC’s Martha Raddatz, Sunday
We say: Raddatz struggled to pooh-pooh Venezuelan gang takeovers of apartment complexes in Aurora, Colo., claiming they were limited to just “a handful.”
But she sounded like those idiotic TV reporters labeling the George Floyd riots “mostly peaceful” even as viewers watched buildings burn in the background.
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When Americans watch videos of entire buildings in the grip of migrant gunmen, they know they have a problem.
“I don’t believe that’s what the letter said.”
— Kamala Harris, Wednesday
We say: Asked if she backed the letter to Israel from Secretary of Antony Blinken threatening to halt US arms unless it lets more aid into Gaza, Harris simply denied that’s what the letter said.
Here’s the letter’s verbatim language: “Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment [to increase aid] . . . may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20.”
What does President Biden’s National Security Memorandum 20 say? That without sufficient “assurances” on aid, the “transfer of defense articles . . . shall be paused.” QED.
“Illegal crossings have gone down every year for three years.”
— Bill Clinton, Sunday
We say: Sorry, Bubba. Customs and Border Patrol figures show a massive increase in “enforcement encounters” — from about 600,000 to nearly 2 million — from Fiscal Year 2020 to 2021; up again, to 2.8 million in 2022; and higher still, at 3.2 million, in 2023.
The number did fall in 2024 to 2.8 million, but even that’s nearly five times higher than during Donald Trump’s last full fiscal year, and doesn’t account for the hundreds of thousands administratively “legalized” by the Biden-Harris team.
Compiled by The Post Editorial Board