This Made Me Uncomfortable

Kamala Harris is all right.

Kamala Harris showed up on Fox News and—your choice. Hit-sticked it. Romped. Not that her interview with Bret Baier, a friend of Donald Trump, will change any minds. But who knows? Maybe, for those eccentric Fox viewers who care about who would make a good American president, it will. 

Naturally, the bookmakers at the major broadsheets temporized. Racing day is coming up, after all. And The LA Times did notice something others on X had been complaining about: Baier’s penchant for manterrupting. (Is it still called that?)

Fox News’ chief political anchor frequently interrupted Harris as she responded to his questions, and frequently referred to her as “ma’am” rather than “vice president.”

False equivalence and both-sidesing are grievous offenses against journalism. But gallantly white-knighting for the Vice President of the United States, as if she were too fragile to brook an interruption by a subliterate TV personality, drives me insane.