For more than two months, Republicans have mocked Kamala Harris for hiding in the basement and not granting interviews and press conferences, which could give people an idea of how she might handle the presidency. So after she and Tim Walz have engaged in debates, Team Harris decided to book her on a series of softball interviews. Start with the “Call Her Daddy” sex podcast, which sounds like something that would be easy for conservatives to mock. Sure, it is a massively popular podcast among young women, but it sounds like more of a forum for aspiring Bill Clinton interns than a public policy platform. Naturally, Barbie-lookalike podcaster Alex Cooper is “sex-positive,” which also means “abortion-positive.” Cooper wasn’t going to ask about Kamala being “mentored” in her career by powerful San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown when she was his young paramour. She wasn’t going to ask about her husband Doug Emhoff ruining his first marriage by cheating with the nanny and getting her pregnant. These are also the kind of saucy subjects that the old Howard Stern would want to talk about on the radio. But the new Howard Stern is firmly entrenched on the left, and he was suggesting to Harris that she was in danger if Donald Trump was re-elected. “If he wins, God forbid, would you feel safe in this country? Would you stay in this country?” Remember that old song “Paranoia Will Destroy Ya”? Howard Stern jumped the shark and landed in a crib. Then there were the liberal ladies of The View on ABC. Fox News people joked that would turn out to be more of a “hot stone massage” than an interview. Whoopi Goldberg set the tone by introducing Harris as “the next president of the United States!” There were moments the news people could underline. Sunny Hostin asked, “Would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” Harris replied, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”  So much for all her talk of “turning the page.” The toughest appearance on the list was 60 Minutes on CBS, but based on the record, that’s not saying much. Bill Clinton tiptoed around Gennifer Flowers on that show. Barack Obama drew a series of worshipful interviews with Steve Kroft, first as a candidate and then as president. More recently, Scott Pelley has contributed several softball sessions with Joe Biden. So it was surprising and refreshing when CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker challenged Harris with some obvious facts. He asked if it was a mistake to "loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?" When she tried to claim the border was "a long-standing problem," he followed up: "the numbers did quadruple under your watch." Whitaker also noted she flipped positions on a host of issues, from a fracking ban to a socialist "Medicare for All" program. These are simple facts, so why are we amazed when a journalist simply points them out and asks her to explain? It’s a reflection on how Democrats don’t have a Tim Russert figure in their “mainstream” TV scene that they consider a serious test of their mettle. Today’s TV hosts act like defense lawyers for the Democrats. They don’t seem to have any prosecutorial muscles at all for the candidates they favor. So raise a glass to Bill Whitaker for reminding us what the news used to sound like in the polyester days. 

Vice President Kamala Harris is continuing her tour of sex podcasts, leftist late-night hosts, and other friendly media, but one famous Democrat might be wavering in his support: Joe Biden himself. That’s half a joke, but there is something to it. The current Oval Office occupant is still very much alive — and still feels very much burned by his party. How is that sentiment expressing itself? According to the D.C. rumor mill, he privately thinks he’s the man who beat former President Donald Trump the first time and that therefore he was the right candidate to do it again. In public, you see it in his day-to-day: He’s just not singing from the same Kamala songbook as the rest of the party. ‘She was a major player in everything we’ve done,’ Biden told reporters. The latest episode began Monday, when Biden stepped on Harris’ campaign talking point that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn’t taking her calls and had turned the massive incoming hurricane into a partisan issue. That night, Harris’ nominal boss tweeted a picture of him on the phone, writing that he spoke with DeSantis and that “my Administration is ready to support both leaders and the people of Florida with any further resources they may need.” Note the “my” in “my administration.” He’s not interested in sharing credit or letting Harris play president before she’s won an election — and he’s not interested in backing her up in this political battle with one of the country’s top Republicans as he prepares his state for the storm, either. And Biden wasn’t done. While Harris was on “The View” Tuesday morning blaming partisan “misinformation” for the thousands of people in North Carolina furious about federal ineptitude in the wake of the hurricane, her boss held a rare (and dueling) press conference. He batted down questions from reporters asking if Republicans were playing politics with the storms, responding: “The governor of Florida has been cooperative.” Biden went on: He’s said he's gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again yesterday, and I said — a — boy — I said I know you're doing a great job. It’s being all — being done well, we thank you for it, and I literally gave him my personal phone number to call, so I don't know — there was a rough start in some places, but every governor — every governor — from Florida to North Carolina has been fully cooperativeand supportive and acknowledged what this team is doing and they're doing an incredible job. But we got a lot more work to do. This wasn’t even the first time Biden had scheduled an event over Harris’ media blitz in the past week. On Friday afternoon, he held a surprise hurricane press conference, “overshadowing” his vice president’s Detroit rally, where she was working to appeal to the type of union voters she’s struggled to win over. The hurricane is undoubtedly big news, but keep in mind how few press conferences Biden has held since taking office. People don’t really expect to see him front and center any more, so holding two in quick succession is deliberate. And that’s not all: During the presser, he hugged Harris as close to his unpopular administration as he could. “She was a major player in everything we've done,” he told reporters, “including passage of legislation which we were told we could never pass. And so she’s been, and her, her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we’re doing.” Except for maybe this bit, where Harris and Co. have been working to distance themselves from the past three and a half years, painting her candidacy as a break from the past. And except for the timing part, where Biden has rained on her parade twice in less than a week. To be fair, she’s not been so great at distancing herself from the administration when put on the spot. But then, she’s not the one smiling ear to ear in a MAGA hat, either. Blaze News: Biden seems to keep trolling Harris, demonstrating that she's an empty vessel The Spectator: Kamala melts down after brief run-in with journalism on ‘60 Minutes’ Blaze News exclusive: 'People are starving' — prepper advocate brings aid to Helene-ravaged North Carolina Blaze News: Harris marinates in failure and hypocrisy on '60 Minutes' Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter.

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Apple is a few weeks away from unveiling several M4 Macs and the new iPad mini 7. That's what all the leaks say, and I don't have any reason to question them at this point. The M4 MacBook Pro appeared in a couple of hands-on videos in the past few days, so there shouldn't be much of a question that it's about to be announced. The good news for buyers is that Apple is indeed preparing a few exciting upgrades for the base M4 14-inch MacBook Pro, which will make it an even better purchase than its predecessor. The bad news — at least, for Apple — is that someone was able to steal a bunch of these laptops. It's unclear what the backstory is, but the Russian YouTubers who posted hands-on videos of the M4 MacBook Pro bought the unreleased laptop from somewhere. Some said the M4 MacBook Pro was available via a Facebook group, but the seller has apparently gone further than that. The M4 MacBook Pro was being sold, at least briefly, on the black market in Russia. Spoiler alert: The base M4 MacBook Pro will be a much better value than the M3 variant, but you should absolutely not pay $7,500 for a stolen unit. Continue reading... The post Apple’s unreleased M4 MacBook Pro is being sold on the black market appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Fire TV Stick deals for October Prime Day 2024 Today’s deals: $17 off Apple Watch Series 10, $30 OneBlade 360, $300 viral floor cleaner from TikTok, more Today’s deals: $76 off Nintendo Switch OLED, $190 memory foam mattress, $90 Chefman Air Fryer+, more Best Echo Dot deals for Fall Prime Day 2024

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