The usually friendly CNN continued to attack Kamala Harris on Friday after her softball interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Earlier this week, the network’s anchors announced criticized Haris because she was not specific about her proposals, which they believed could lead to a conflict. Donald Trump win in november.
On Friday, conservative commentator Scott Jennings criticized Harris for speaking to Winfrey during a livestreamed fundraiser, instead of the less friendly media.
Jennings got straight to the point, asking, “When has she spoken to hostile media?”
Winfrey and Harris had a pleasant conversation, culminating in the vice president reiterating that she is a gun owner and that she would shoot anyone who broke into her home.
The usually friendly CNN continued to attack Kamala Harris on Friday after her softball interview with Oprah Winfrey
“It’s hard to equate an interview with a more hostile or even non-hostile, more critical journalist with someone who has pledged to support the campaign,” CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams said.
The tension rose a little when Jennings replied, “When would that be?”
Elliot seemed to smile and teased him lightly by saying, “You know what I mean, Scott.”
“I’m just asking,” Jennings replied rudely.
Jennings responded even more sharply when asked to analyze the content of the conversation with Winfrey.
“I watched a lot of this thing last night. I mean, it was mostly a solid hour of the same kind of empty word-salad-throwing that we expect from the vice president,” he said.
He called the comments about the guns “useful” but said the rest were nothing more than “really stupid jokes” that would be incoherent if read from a transcript.
This comes just days after hosts Dana Bash and Abby Phillip criticized Harris’ campaign.
On Friday, conservative commentator Scott Jennings (pictured right) slammed Harris for speaking to Winfrey during a live-streamed fundraiser instead of the less friendly media.
The vice president made the statement in an attempt to burnish her credentials as a “common sense” gun control candidate during her hour-and-a-half livestream fundraiser with Oprah Winfrey
Bash joked on Wednesday that you could play a drinking game as VP Harris repeats the same points about the economy over and over, often bringing up small and medium-sized businesses and her middle-class background.
“When you hear Kamala Harris talk about what she’s going to do, you can almost start a drinking game when she says ‘small business,’” Bash said during a panel discussion.
Phillip said Tuesday that Harris “didn’t provide specific information” and didn’t have quick and “understandable” answers on the economy and other topics.
‘Black Journalists at NABJ Today [National Black Journalists Association] “She has pressed Vice President Kamala Harris on her policies, from guns to the war in Gaza, but many of her answers were not specific,” Phillip said.
The legendary talk show host opened the hour-and-a-half livestream by introducing a who’s who of Hollywood A-listers, including Bryan Cranston, Chris Rots, Ben Stiller, Jennifer LopezTracy Ellis Ross, Julia Roberts And Meryl Streep.
“I’m smiling from ear to ear, Oprah,” said Cranston of Breaking Bad. “I’ve never felt so much joy and optimism in a campaign in a long time.”
But with Winfrey at the helm of production, there were also some touching moments, such as the introduction of the mother of the first woman to die from a preventable abortion since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
All night long, Winfrey threw punches at the celebrities.
Dana Bash joked on Wednesday that you could play a drinking game every time VP Harris repeats the same talk about the economy, often bringing up small businesses
Phillip said Tuesday that Harris “didn’t provide specific information” and didn’t have quick and “understandable” answers about the economy.
“Hello, President Harris,” Streep said, giggling. “From my mouth to God’s ear.”
Streep then asked Harris what would happen if Trump again refuses to accept the election results.
“More Americans than we think who voted for Trump previously have decided that January 6 was a bridge too far,” Harris said.
She added that the “other aspect” is that “the lawyers are at work.
“It’s really important that we talk to our friends and neighbors about misinformation,” she continued, while also encouraging her supporters to “stand up for the integrity of poll workers.”
Harris also pleaded, “Don’t be afraid to vote.”
“I think there is also something very insidious about these attacks on the electorate in these different forms, which are designed to convince people that their vote doesn’t matter,” the vice president said.
She assured the crowd, including Streep, that “we’re going to have a good Election Day.”
Ahead of the event, Harris-Walz’s campaign reported that nearly 200,000 people had signed up to watch.
Winfrey took over a recording studio in Oakland County, Michigan, for the taping and invited Michigan’s popular Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer to hype up the crowd.
The veteran talk show host explained that the idea for the event came from the Zoom calls that various groups participated in after Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, starting with “Win With Black Women.”
Winfrey said members of a variety of groups turned in their cards Thursday night, including Swifties for Harris and even Train Lovers for Harris.
“I didn’t know train enthusiasts existed,” Winfrey mused.
She said Republicans were part of the crowd for Harris.
“I love that group even more,” Winfrey noted.
The self-described independent first supported former President Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. In 2016, she endorsed Hillary Clinton, but never campaigned again.
Winfrey has been heavily involved in this campaign, first speaking at the Democratic National Convention and then hosting the event on Thursday night.
She had Harris answer questions from her live broadcast audience and from the livestream audience, who mostly had questions about the economy.