Memo on "What the media can and can’t say about Kamala" sent to Mainstream Media

Just before Biden announced he'd chosen Kamala Harris as his VP, a group called “We Have Her Back” sent a remarkable memo to “News Division Heads, Editors in Chiefs, Bureau Chiefs, Political Directors, Editors, Producers, Reporters, and Anchors.”

The memo told the media leaders how they were to cover whichever woman was selected.  In fact the memo even graciously offered to provide the mainstream media with guidance as the campaign progresses.  The memo also warned media types that they would  "be watching you.”

After wailing about “inequality,” the memo provides a partial list of things the Dem group warns the media NOT to cover.  (While the memo used the generality of  "women", I've substituted Harris since the top Dems obviously knew she was to be selected):

• Stories about her ambition
• Her relationships with partners, staff, colleagues and donors (her chief of staff when she was California attorney-general was accused of sex assault and quietly resigned; she claimed to have never heard about it)
• Reporting on whether Harris is likeable--despite the fact that the media constantly write about how Trump is hated by the Left.
• Reporting on Harris's appearance, weight, tone of voice, attractiveness or hair--despite thousands of media stories about Trump having orange hair and being overweight; amazing.
• Reporting on the fact that Harris clearly wasn't thought to be electable in her own right, when all signs point to the fact that she would be president, since Biden won't last a year in office beforee being removed by the 25th amendment.
• Stories about her racial heritage
• Stories questioning whether women are too emotional or irrational to be president, or whether they may “hate America”

So according to the memo, no story can point out that Harris got her start in politics by sleeping with California's king of the legislature, later mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown.  (Let me quickly add that consenting adults can do as they wish; my complaint is with the insane double-standard, in that the Mainstream Media has written thousands of stories that work in Trump's alleged affairs.  That's apparently fine, but stories about Harris are off limits?  Double standard.)

The memo, authored by assorted Democratic operatives, is a response to an obvious problem Joe Biden faces.  Rather than select the best nominee to be president when he bows out, he decided early on to select just the best black female.  While that person could well be the best president--and keep in mind that's what's being decided here--that would be one hell of a coincidence.

Harris clearly didn't impress Dem voters when she ran for the top spot, but given the artificially-restricted pool of choices due to Biden's pandering for the black and female vote, he was stuck with...well, lousy choices.  And again, rational voters know there is a good chance that, if Biden is elected, his VP will become president before his term ends.

How to get around this problem?  Try to silence the media.  And of course 99 percent of the Mainstream Media will happily comply.

Writer Karen Townsend notices something else:

It is as though these liberal women expect conservatives to forget how the media treated Sarah Palin:  Democrats and their media allies said she was uneducated, ignorant, possibly had a child that wasn’t her husband’s.  They called her a hick from Alaska, said she wore the wrong clothes, she didn’t speak well.  They mocked her religion, and so on. It was hideous.

Townsend also reminds us that in 2012, one of the authors of the current memo, far-left feminist Hillary Rosen, attacked Ann Romney for "having never worked a day in her life.”  That's especially curious since Ann Romney wasn’t running for any office.

Frankly I don't think that will be a problem for leftist women like the authors of this memo, since they don't consider Sarah Palin an authentic woman, like them.  They don't mind being hypocrites if it will win them the presidency.  Case in point: When Biden was accused of sexual assault by former staffer Tara Reid, liberal women suddenly decided that "believe all women" wasn't what they wanted after all--at least when the accused assailant was the likely Democrat nominee.  

Source.


https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/what-the-media-can-and-cant-say-about-bidens-running-mate.php