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SiriusXM podcast star Megyn Kelly riffed on Vice President Kamala Harris during a show segment on Thursday, accusing her of running a campaign devoid of substance while hiding from the media and getting by on praise over her skin color and gender.
Kelly, who was joined by the hosts of the “Ruthless” podcast, began by mocking Harris for tailoring her accent to fit the crowd or organization she was addressing. She also mentioned Harris’ other “cringe-worthy” moments, such as bragging about being in the “role model club.”
“She’s Latinx now… She sounds like Hilaria Baldwin. Why does she do this? Why? Why?… I’ll tell you what I think. She’s an actress. She’s playing a part. We don’t know who this person is. You cannot trust her. We don’t know how she’ll legislate, or how she’ll behave, or who she is, or what’s at her core,” Kelly began.
“So she’s just this chameleon who changes in front of whatever audience she’s before. And that’s really scary because there will be very strong, powerful people around her should she get in the White House, pushing their agendas on her, and we have no clue who those people are,” Kelly continued.
Ruthless podcast co-host Josh Holmes responded: “The funny thing is, you put her in any crowd, and she basically just tries to reflect back what it is that they want to hear. But the problem is, she’s not even really very good at that… It’s so bad that it really does feel like it’s a fictional, comedic set… Every question… she puts about four sentences together to buy time.”
“It’s like trying to fill the word count on a term paper,” quipped fellow co-host Michael Duncan.
Co-host John Ashbrook added: “She sort of slows her cadence so that she sounds authoritative, even though she’s not really saying anything. She’s like, that person who is the boss in your office, and you’re sitting in a meeting and everybody’s sitting there is like, ‘Why is this person in charge again?’ And they just slow down because they think what they’re saying is somehow meaningful, and everybody is texting about what an idiot they are.”
Kelly agreed with their assessments.
“That’s totally true. I think she thinks like she is some sort of authority… if she slows down and if she adds the appropriate filler, ‘you know, you know,’ she adds that a lot,” she said. “Anyway, she’s more in love with the sound of her own voice and her accomplishments than we even knew.
“This surfaced earlier online… she’s been saying this over and over for years. Here’s a little piece of what Kamala Harris thinks about Kamala Harris… Oh my Lord… She loves this phrase… She’s in the ‘Role Model Club.’ Why? Again, because of her lady parts and her skin color. That’s truly what she says. ‘I have a vagina, and I have the following skin tone. Yay for me.’ No wonder why people felt uncomfortable,” Kelly added.
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Harris delivered another awkward, two-minute “word salad” monologue during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, leaving the live audience completely silent.
The interview, which included unusual moments such as Harris’s comment about being prepared to shoot anyone who breaks into her home, concluded with the vice president’s lengthy and perplexing speech.
“We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do. That’s why everybody’s here right now. We love our country. We– we take pride in the privilege of being American and this is a moment where [pause] we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with [pause] the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people,” she began.
“We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that,” Harris added, as Oprah could be seen looking around the studio at the audience’s reaction.
“That’s how– that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions [pause] for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body, freedom to be safe from gun violence, freedom to have access to the ballot box, freedom to be who you are and just be the love, who you love, openly and with pride. Freedom to just be,” she said.
That lengthy response led the host to respond with a straight face: “Hmmm….”
