'Soaring Rhetoric': On Morning Joe, Jeremy Peters Praises Kamala's Interview Performance

Was that David Plouffe? Brian Fallon? Maybe the Second Gentleman himself? Surely no one from outside the inner circle of Kamala Harris' campaign would have the chutzpah to use the term "soaring rhetoric" to describe Kamala Harris' pedestrian-at-best performance during her CNN interview last night! But no! It was actually Jeremy Peters, an MSNBC contributor and New York Times "reporter" on today's Morning Joe. Sam Stein sounded a refreshing note of realism, musing whether Harris could have gotten away with going "full Bulworth." That was a reference to a movie in which a politician at the end of his personal and political rope drops the duplicitous rhetoric and just tells it like it is. If Harris had gone that route, as Stein described it, she would have admitted that back in 2019, in taking far-left positions she was trying to say what was necessary to get progressive votes in the primary, but now has changed to try to win the general election. Stein concludes that probably wouldn't work, but is close to the truth.