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Politico Gets Raked Over the Coals for Kamala Harris Post: ‘One of the Worst Headlines Written in a Long Time’

Hopefully the mods are okay with a little journalism about journalism so that people know where Politico stands in terms of being a trustworthy source.

The headline in question:

‘Next question’: Harris evades questions about her identity

The background to the headline is from Harris’ recent CNN interview:

“I want to ask you about your opponent, Donald Trump,” Bash said to Harris. “I was a little bit surprised. People might be surprised to hear that you have never interacted with him, met him face-to-face. That’s gonna change soon. But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

“Same old, tired playbook,” Harris replied. “Next question, please.”

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Headline is still up on their front page even:

politico.com/…/harris-cnn-interview-race-gender-0…

“Harris sidesteps the spotlight when it comes to her identity

The vice president makes her case on identity implicit. Black women are OK with that.”

girlfreddy ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

If I ever see a question like that posed to a white politician I will accept it as valid. Otherwise it’s just more dumb racist shit.

Cephalotrocity ,

The hypocrisy. Trump evades questions about EVERYTHING, yet gets called almost never. Her answer isn’t even an evasion. It was a whole dismissive argument on the absurdity of both the claim and question summarized in a terse “Same old, tired playbook. Next question, please.”

SARGE ,
@SARGE@startrek.website avatar

Same energy as Quinten Tarantino refusing to answer some questions about violence in media or using the N word in movies.

It’s been asked a thousand times, you have nothing new to add to this discussion, we’re moving on.

Dkarma ,

But trump is white.

rayyy ,

Trump lies about EVERYTHING too. Not a peep out of the media when they interview him. How about, “Sir, why do you lied constantly?”

paddirn ,

That seemed like the entirely right answer. It was a bullshit question that didn’t need dignified with a response.

Telodzrum ,

The Harris campaign has consistently handled Trump with a deftness and results-oriented system that we haven’t seen from anyone else. It’s impressive in both its success and its consistency.

grue ,

How is plainly calling it out as the bullshit that it is “evasion?” That headline isn’t just misleading; it’s a straight-up lie.

Omegamanthethird ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

They asked for her reaction to Trump being extremely racist.

Politico - “Okay but what if Trump is right?”

kikutwo ,

She should have asked Bash when he happened to turn orange. He used to be white.

CitizenKong ,

Honest question from a European: Do you guys still have journalism somewhere? It all seems to be political propaganda or outrsge clickbait with you guys.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Very little, but there is NPR, which generally attempts to do real journalism.

www.npr.org

Maeve ,

Democracy Now! Also

protist ,

ProPublica, PBS, and don’t forget the Daily Show

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I wouldn’t say the Daily Show does real journalism. They do make important stories public, but they have a clear slant both in terms of politics and in terms of making it funny.

AngryCommieKender ,

Jon Stewart would agree. Not sure if Norm would, but probably.

Carrolade ,

Mother Jones remains my favorite publication, I think.

disguy_ovahea ,

Which is precisely why Musk has flagged it as possible misinformation on Xitter.

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Local affiliates and independent papers tend to be much better.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Until they get bought up by Sinclair or Gannett.

hemmes ,
@hemmes@lemmy.world avatar

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

darkdemize ,
@darkdemize@sh.itjust.works avatar

“This is dangerous to our democracy.”

AshMan85 ,

Was gonna say, “they still exist?” Lol

protist ,

Point of order from an American: Politico is a wholly owned subsidiary of German multinational Axel Springer.

ceiphas ,

Didn’t know that (i’m German), but Springer ist known in Germany to outright lie to push rightwing agenda

Hobo , (edited )

Trust me they’re known for that outside of Germany as well.

protist , (edited )

he

Corporations are people my friend!

Edit: I don’t actually believe this lmao…this is an infamous quote from Mitt Romney from when he was trying to be president. And also Axel Springer the man died 40 years ago

Hobo ,

One day I’ll remember English isn’t gendered. Thanks for pointing it out!

mosiacmango ,

It isn’t, but it borrows so many loan words from other languages it sometimes pretends to be. Dont feel bad about it.

Buffalox ,

Better regulation in EU and Germany. And better freedom of speech too.
Many Americans confuse the right to lie with freedom of speech.

paw ,

Touché (I’m German, btw)

barsquid ,

We have capitalism that is regulated less and less with every Repub admin, so no, unfortunately.

GoofSchmoofer ,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

There are a lot of ‘content creators’ that pose as journalists.

There are journalists that do great work but since their stories can run counter to a narrative, it can be more difficult to find those articles.

xmunk ,

Specifically, “Good Work” and “Some More News” spring to mind as producing well researched pieces - they’re both highly specialized and only deliver occasional focused news rather than a continuous spread of general goings-on… but given how many outlets are happy to spam low quality continuous bullshit I consider that a good thing.

Reverendender ,

John Oliver

Valmond ,

We have it less and less too here in the EU.

IMO.

Nuke_the_whales ,

Get off your high horse, you guys are just as bad

casmael ,

Related question: what do you guys think of the associated press?

queermunist ,
@queermunist@lemmy.ml avatar

This is your future if you can’t stop the liberals.

elrik ,

Bash said: "But what I wanna ask you about is what he said last month. He suggested that you ‘happened’ to turn Black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity.”

Where was the question? That’s simply a statement about what Trump said.

Politico’s headline is outrageous, but what was Bash even trying to do here? Because it reads like she was trying to ask (without asking) if Harris is black, which is just as weird and absurd as Trump’s original comment.

Harris’s reply is great because it applies both to Trump’s racism and the problem with journalists giving these comments anything more than ridicule.

cybervseas ,

Where was the question? That’s simply a statement about what Trump said.

All of Dana Bash’s questions were just Donald Trump talking points.

Telodzrum ,

This is a horrible take. Bash lobbed this question in as a total softball. Dana is an excellent interviewer and she deliberately framed the question this way so as to allow Harris to be free to frame it with her response; instead of trapping Harris with a strongly premised question.

Bluefalcon ,

Multi race people are use to this shit. We are denied one race or another. If you don’t look how people expect you will receive racist shit about both races, really fun.

I have many issues with Harris, but I’m glad she is exposing this shit. I’m tired of closet and undercover racists.

FlyingSquid OP ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s amazing how many of them feel emboldened to come out of the woodwork now. It’s because they’re a bunch of 30- and 40-somethings who grew up and/or spent their on 4Chan and never left that mindset.

Bluefalcon ,

You would be surprised how many whisper at work and get upset when you expose them. I love doing it. I’m the undercover brother.

Carrolade ,

Adam Connover did a really good interview of Elle Reeve going into this, with a particular focus on JD Vance:

youtu.be/3cpwJ7o0o6c

ThirdWorldOrder ,

I’m not biracial but I am a dual citizen. When I lived in Canada I was called a yankee and when I moved to the USA I was called a Canuck. Can’t win lol.

Omegamanthethird ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

HOLY SHIT. This is a much bigger deal than people realize. Politico is suggesting that her identity is in question to begin with. It’s not.

She didn’t evade a question about her identity because there is no question about her identity. She passed an opportunity to get upset over Trump’s comments.

cybervseas ,

“But what about the drammmmaaaaaaa?” - Politico

Cheradenine ,

It’s just a different version of that Birther shit they tried to use on Obama

Omegamanthethird ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

At least with the birther shit, there was a question of whether Obama should just put the question to rest or ignore it.

This is literally just an insult for her being multiracial. And Politico is asking if she’s hiding something.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Feels like how they treated Obama over the birth certificate

blaine ,

She’s definitely used her race as a political chit, and that’s that’s what Dana was asking her about and what she’s avoided answering. I don’t think anyone here could find any campaign materials from when she was running for DA that referenced her being Black, but there are tons that reference her Asian heritage.

It’s completely reasonable to ask someone why they overhauled their entire racial identity in between campaigns.

Mouselemming ,

Any picture of her face, on any campaign poster in any of her campaigns, shows her Black heritage. She doesn’t have to say anything about it, it’s obvious. And Harris is a common Black name. Her Asian heritage is not as apparent, so it bears mentioning. I might also mention that the Asian and Black communities have a history of discomfort with each other, so being obviously Black could have caused some Asian people who didn’t know her full heritage to vote for the white male Republican rather than a Black person. Black people have more experience with mixed-race heritage. Being a savvy politician, knowing how to approach different people, is a positive thing.

But she’s always run on her own capability. It’s others who tout or disparage her racial experience.

grrgyle ,

Just changing the word"evades" to “deflects” would have made all the difference in the world.

Not a Kamala fan, but her response seemed totally appropriate.

QuiteQuickQum ,

The headline is, “Harris sidesteps spotlight when it comes to her identity.”

Empricorn ,

the tweet Politico sent to promote it was incredibly misleading and stated Harris had dodged a question about herself.

Dkarma ,

No it’s “Donald Trump’s attacks on harris’ race fail to land”

UncleGrandPa ,

Keep in mind race is very important to conservatives. VERY IMPORTANT. to them, once an association is made … It can not be changed. And you can’t be 2 races at once. its very important to them and they have lots of rules about it.

Telodzrum ,

I heard if you whisper “intersectionality” to an unsuspecting conservative, their heart just stops.

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