Mark Halperin: Kamala Harris Should Not Have A Job That Requires Her To Speak In Public
Mark Halperin and Megyn Kelly react to the “tragedy” of then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed interview on the “Subway Takes” podcast, where she claimed bacon was a spice.
MEGYN KELLY: But think about it. Like of all the inanities out there, like you can’t make your case about bacon in a compelling way. Like even I could make the case that you could use bacon as a spice. I mean, I wouldn’t argue this, but if I had to in a court of law, you know, like model UN style where you’re not given a choice, this is what you’re arguing. I would say they dry it up. They chop it up. They put it in one of those spice looking shakers. People shake it on their salad. It’s even a commercial. I’ve seen it in commercials being shaken on a salad. You could make the case if you had to. MARK HALPERIN: When I was a child, there was a thing called Bacos that probably didn’t actually have bacon in it. I can only imagine what Bobby Kennedy would say about the ingredients of Bacos, but yeah, of course you could argue that. But the point is you’re going on some podcast. Your staff should have researched it and you should be swaggering in and killing it rather than having the segment actually killed because you can’t perform well enough. It’s just, it’s why I say like, you know, as Bill Clinton once said about Mitt Romney, that person should not have a job that requires them to speak in public. And I think the same thing applies to her if it’s a pressure situation. And I confess, I don’t know the format of this show that she went on, but it sounds like they shouldn’t have gone into it without being confident that she could master it and it sounds like she couldn’t. MEGYN KELLY: And by the way, she picked the subject. That’s what’s so crazy about it. That’s his whole point. Like they had to settled on the shoes thing. Then she thought it would make her look too elitist because she was trying to tell us all she had jobs at McDonald’s, which was under scrutiny, of course. And now she doesn’t want to look like the child of privilege that she was. And so she switches to bacon as a spice. She chooses bacon as a spice. She can’t make her own argument. She’s so inept at it that they have to cut it out of Subway Takes, a fun, lighthearted show where you’re supposed to just go on and show that you can be a fun person. MEGYN KELLY: I sort of loved that host’s attitude as he explained the tragedy that he didn’t want to be blamed for her losing and her performance was so bad, he thought it would lead in a linear way to 270 electoral votes from Donald Trump if he had pressed send and uploaded it. So I sort of enjoyed that. And now I kind of want to go on that show.
