OPINION:
Vice President Kamala Harris is running a “Wizard of Oz” campaign, relying on her flying monkeys in the press to carry out all of her dirty work and whisk her back into the White House.
Just think of it: We are told that Ms. Harris has suddenly and dramatically changed all of her positions on the most important issues of this election, such as giving free health care to illegal aliens, cutting funding to police departments and drilling for natural gas in Pennsylvania.
As citizens charged with making a decision in the upcoming election, we do not actually know that she has changed her positions or what her new positions are. We have been assured only by her flying monkeys that she has gone totally mainstream.
Ms. Harris, meanwhile, is hiding behind a great velvet curtain, pushing knobs, pulling levers and pumping pedals on a giant organ that controls the constant stream of propaganda and smears that have thus far defined her fake campaign for president. This should be of little surprise, given that she is the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee even though she never earned the vote from a single Democratic voter to be president.
One of the more delightful exchanges of the campaign so far came this past weekend when Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, confronted one of Ms. Harris’ flying monkeys in the press over running interference for her campaign.
“President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens or taking away health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms —“
At this, ABC flying monkey Jonathan Karl interrupted Mr. Cotton to update him on the latest propaganda pumped out from the campaign.
“What do you mean, ’taking away health insurance’? What are you talking about?” Mr. Karl demanded, flapping his wings, curling his tail and bobbing his head as he maintained altitude.
“She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job for 170 million Americans, Jon,” Mr. Cotton explained.
“Well, well,” Ms. Harris’ flying monkey stammered. “Yeah, I mean, th-, that is not her position now.”
“How do you know that is not her position?” Mr. Cotton asked.
The flying monkey assured Mr. Cotton that Ms. Harris has changed her position and that she is now totally mainstream normal and not the left-wing wacko that she has been through her ridiculous political career.
Mr. Cotton correctly pointed out that while “maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night” have leaked the campaign’s supposed reversals, Ms. Harris herself has never actually explained to the voters what her real positions are. This, of course, is because she refuses to sit down for any in-depth interviews or hold news conferences, and she is dodging debates.
Perhaps realizing he was losing altitude, Ms. Harris’ flying monkey switched tactics and offered a full-throated defense of Ms. Harris’ entire Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago.
“But this was not a radical, uh, convention!” the flying monkey squeaked. “I mean, she, she, she … she is not taking the positions of the far left of her party. She is clearly making an effort to move to the middle.”
At which point the whole interview became sad and the regular innocent viewer just wished for the tornado to hurry up and arrive.
While Mr. Cotton was the hero of this particular exchange with the Harris campaign’s flying monkeys, you don’t have to rely on a seasoned Republican senator for such wisdom and integrity. Just listen to Kamala Harris’ mother.
“My mother had another lesson she sued to teach,” Ms. Harris said last week, reading from a teleprompter at the convention.
“Never let anyone tell you who you are,” she said. “You SHOW them who you are!”
OK, Ms. Harris. Then call off your flying monkeys and step out from behind your velvet curtain.
Show us who you really are.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor for The Washington Times.
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