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The long-promised first interview of Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is now on record. To many of her detractors, the interview, conducted by CNN’s Dana Bash, was hardly worth the wait or hype. Fox News contributor Joe Concha is among those who had more bad things to say than good about it. He appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to poke holes in the sit-down.
“For starters, the opening of this interview looked more like a campaign commercial produced by the Kamala campaign itself,” Concha told Riedel and Laura Curran, sitting in for Berman. “But the lies that Kamala Harris told during this interview, it was at Baghdad Bob levels. Now she doesn’t want to ban fracking, she’s actually all for fracking. The late, great Tim Russert of ‘Meet the Press’- he would play clips of politicians who may have flip-flopped or were contradicting themselves, play the clip and then say, ‘What may have changed?’.” So, I would have loved to have seen at some point Dana Bash play a clip of, for example, Kamala Harris comparing ICE agents or border agents to the KKK; defend that!”
As for what was missing from the interview, Concha says the lack of hard-hitting questions especially irked him. “I would have loved to have heard more, like, specific questions, not these general ones, like ‘Why do you think price fixing is a good idea in supermarkets that have a profit margin of one or two per cent?’. You know, just leave it at that and let her try to answer that. I want to hear how she’s gonna lower inflation on day one when she’s elected, when she’s already in power and allowed it to get to nine per cent at one point. I would have loved to have seen these questions; I didn’t hear them.”
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