What a joke: Kamala Harris avoids substantive interviews in favor of a podcast known for sex revelations
Kamala Harris’s team has realized that “brat” vibes and coconut emojis alone would not carry her over the finish line in November.After making avoiding interviews a cornerstone of her campaign, she is finally scheduled to make the rounds.
To speak not with a teleprompter, but a real human.To talk about substantive issues.She’ll be tested on her nearly four years in the Biden White House, her record on the border and how she plans to bring down the cost of living.I kid.
Harris is gearing up for a softball tour, visiting the right-hating ladies of “The View,” Stephen “dancing vaccine needle” Colbert and Howard Stern: all people ready to throw her a parade because she’s not the bad orange man.On Sunday, she was on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, which is a home for celebrities to talk about copulation in such a tawdry way that it would make Samantha Jones blush.It’s where Katy Perry boasted of rewarding her fiance Orlando Bloom with oral sex if he’s done housework and Brazilian pop star Anitta and comedian Heather McMahan shared their fellatio tips.
Christina Aguilera once referred to herself as a “promoter of the swallow” on the show.Not exactly an incisive political forum.But it is a safe spot for Harris — who has been showered with soft-focus media features and fawning takes on her cooking and clothing — to once again be treated like a glittering celebrity.I’ve seen many Republicans dismiss the podcast, saying they’ve never heard of it.It’s dishonest to claim Cooper’s audience isn’t passionate, engaged or massive; “Call Her Daddy” was the fourth most listened-to podcast in the country in the second quarter of this year, according to Edison Research.But how does that move the needle for Harris, who was preaching to her choir of Gen Z woman? (Although even they didn’t want it.
Some listeners immediately took to social media to voice displeasure at having politics creep into their escapist space.)Yesterda...