After she successfully avoided tough interviews for months, Harris finally sat down for a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Oct. 7. The first solid punch at the Democrat, likely the first of the entire election season, came from correspondent Bill Whitaker who demonstrated the power of the follow-up question.
"Pardon me, Madam Vice President, the question was how are you going to pay for it," he pressed her after listening to rehearsed talking points.
After a CNN town hall with moderator Anderson Cooper concluded this week, Harris was not praised in the panel discussion that followed.
"The thing that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question,” David Axelrod, a top political advisor to Barack Obama, told fellow panelists.
"She focused a lot more on Donald Trump, I think it’s fair to say,” said Jake Tapper, “than she did on many specifics in terms of what she would do as president.”
To his credit, during the town hall Cooper reminded the current Vice President that voters are asking why she is promising to accomplish things after being in office four years.
“I’m pointing out things that need to be done, that haven’t been done, but need to be done,” Harris replied.
Even though it appears liberal media outlets suddenly woke up and remembered their jobs, Media Research Center senior analyst Bill D'Agostino is not congratulating them. That is because he and MRC watch and document the liberal media’s slippery practices every day.
“Every time that trust in the media is polled, it's at a record low,” he says. “That’s true of the most recent instance as well, where only 7% of Americans said they completely trust mass media.”
Even in an NBC News interview this week, where Hallie Jackson challenged Harris about President Biden’s cognitive decline, D'Agostino advises to watch the rest of the interview.
“The entire rest of the interview, it felt to me,” he says, “was very much like watching a parent walk their child out to the school bus.”
Similarly, despite that tough "60 Minutes" grilling from Whitaker, CBS News is accused of heavily editing the interview to make a bad-sounding Harris from sounding even worse.
