Vice President Kamala Harris completed her second whole interview of her mostly cloistered presidential campaign Wednesday night.
Frankly, it was an embarrassment for American corporate media and gives the lie to the idea that the Harris campaign is all about defending “democracy.”
The interview was exactly what one would expect if you’d followed the Harris campaign at all. It was a series of mostly softball questions, delivered in the friendliest of confines on left-wing MSNBC, conducted by an admiring and sycophantic host, Stephanie Ruhle.
That setup was practically telegraphed ahead of time.
Five days before the interview, Ruhle went on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” and claimed that Harris didn’t have to answer any substantive questions from the media.
“Kamala Harris isn’t running for perfect,” Ruhle heatedly told the New York Times’…
