’60 Minutes’ Interview With Kamala Harris
The star of this “60 Minutes” interview is Bill Whitaker for being an actual journalist instead of an MSM propaganda bot. Notice Kamala’s speech consists mostly of slogans and catchphrases.
Her performance reminded me of Orwell’s, “Politics and the English Language” in which remarked:
As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
As Orwell points out later in the essay, this is an indication that the speaker is not actually thinking about what he or she is saying. Reviewing the interview for the Spectator, Freddy Gray observed:
Perhaps the most revealing moment was when
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