This week's winner won twice; once for stupid quote of the week and also for stupid liar of the week. Of course I'm talking about Kamala Harris, who used her position (in more than one way!) as San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown's mistress to climb the political ladder all the way into the US Senate. California is, of course, so avant-garde that publicly dating a man 31 years older than her while he was still married didn't raise too many eyebrows. Often, Willie was so proud of his women that he would go to parties with his wife on one arm and his mistress on the other. Kamala "dated" him for quite a while, but when she was elected District Attorney and then Attorney General she realized she didn't need him anymore and dumped him with this comment:
"His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing."
I'm guessing Willie is regretting "dating" her now. And we can kind of take a guess at Kamala's character with that statement; it tells us she's a user of people to further herself, and when somebody can't do anything for her anymore, it's hasta la vista, baby.
But that's not what made her the winner this week. She's running for President (God help us all if she ever wins) and at a Town Hall in New Hampshire this week, after somebody in the audience called President Trump "mentally retarded," she replied Well said .... well said as she brushed her hair back and laughed. The man spoke very clearly and everybody heard his words. Not one word was mumbled. Her body language also tells us she was very much engaged in the conversation.
Of course, cameras were rolling and on replay, it dawned on her this was raw stupid for a supposedly politically correct Presidential candidate to do, so she attempted to spin her response with this tweet:
Denying she heard the words is something nobody is going to believe after watching that video, Kamala. A better approach would have been a sincere apology for your words and giggles, laced with a promise to try to do better next time. We're all human and most of us are familiar with the word "retarded." It still gets used often and I sure most of us have said it at one point or another.
Doubling down on her error and throwing away the chance to ever repair this, she followed it up with this bold lie:
"I heard him talk about the other stuff and then that came later and it was not something that I really heard or processed or I in any way condone. That's for sure," Harris told CBS News afterward.
Um, no. You heard it, you processed the words and you laughed. And then you honored the words, Kamala. The video doesn't give you any leeway to make that claim. It is patently clear you understood what was said.
Um, no. You heard it, you processed the words and you laughed. And then you honored the words, Kamala. The video doesn't give you any leeway to make that claim. It is patently clear you understood what was said.
Besides, I'm betting Kamala realizes she needs the "retarded" vote when she tried to buff that scratch out, seeing as that's probably one of the prerequisites of being one of her supporters.
And you say Donald Trump is a liar. How ironic.
PS: If anybody comments on this blog entry, please don't say "well said, well said." That would seem ... retarded, considering the context.
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