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Lex Weiser's avatar

I live in South Carolina, and the way that poor girl was brutalized by the press was awful. If the media held our public officials to the same standard of intellectual clarity that they held her, the ridicule of them would never end.

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Susan Daniels's avatar

The "poor girl," who only had looks going for her, should never have entered a contest where she would be expected to speak. I agree about public officials. Kamala Harris is on the same intellectual level as the blonde, which is one rung higher than Dementia Joe.

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Lex Weiser's avatar

None of us would want to be judged based on our most embarrassing moment. She's not an idiot, she just froze up. The way she was treated afterwards was unconscionable.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/10-viral-sensations-on-life-after-internet-fame.html

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Ron Mexico's avatar

I agree, she was also a teenager. Who the hell expects a teenager to provide coherent ideas or profound insights? The press tore her down with everything they had.

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Jaunie's avatar

If she would have been transтАж they would have LOVED it!

Just sayingтАж

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

I could see what happened to her. She was put on the spot in public. I have found myself rambling on about nothing as well when put on the spot.

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Bird's avatar

Enough fear adrenaline in the brain and it is difficult to think through what to say and sometimes even remember words. She's a lovely girl, I hope she feels fine about it in retrospect.

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Luzzie's avatar

Sometimes I wonder if Kamala is faking her cluelessness and weird speech.

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I truly don't think so. She's an inch deep.

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Luzzie's avatar

She sounds fluent in this video, for example:

https://youtu.be/Pqu_aXigJm4

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Guylaine's avatar

She should have stopped with. "... a lot of children don't have maps" 100% right, nothing else required.

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SnowInTheWind's avatar

Something about the question... I'm not sure I would have been able to answer it any better than she did. New fact for me: one fifth of Americans can't find the U.S. on a world map. And what is the profound meaning of that, and what should be done about it? I don't know, but it seems I need to say something pretty while the camera is on me...

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Bird's avatar

I find that claim very hard to believe. More likely the data collectors designed their survey wrong and the media designed a sensational clickbait headline.

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SnowInTheWind's avatar

Yes, that's also entirely probable, and constitutes yet another layer of bog underfoot for the poor person put on the spot to answer the question: "Why do you think this is?"

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Guylaine's avatar

I saw her do a follow up, you tube video, where she was funny and any one who can laugh at oneself is good in my book.

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