Chuck Darwin<p>Fox News’s interview of Kamala Harris was grievance theater, not political journalism</p><p>After 10 minutes of playing immigration “<a href="https://c.im/tags/gotcha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gotcha</span></a>”, <br>Baier pivoted to the obvious next subject, <br>airing a video clip in which Harris expressed support for transgender people in prisons.</p><p>Immigrant hatred. </p><p>Transphobia. </p><p>And later, Joe Biden’s age. </p><p>Baier was running through the Fox News greatest hits playlist.</p><p>This was <a href="https://c.im/tags/grievance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grievance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>theater</span></a>, not political journalism.</p><p>❇️. But Harris got in her licks. She had her moments.</p><p>Chiming in afterwards in what some saw as 🔸corporate damage control, <br>Baier’s colleagues on Fox News gushed their approval. </p><p>Martha MacCallum termed Baier’s performance “masterful”, while Dana Perino analyzed the interview as “super good”.</p><p>I can’t imagine that too many viewers agreed. <br>If they came to it expecting to learn more about Harris’s policies or get a true sense of her character, they would have been disappointed. </p><p>That wasn’t the gameplan, and it wasn’t the result.</p><p>But Harris accomplished something anyway.</p><p>⭐️Merely by sitting down with a Fox host, she made a few statements.</p><p>✅First, that she is unafraid and is willing to speak to all voters. <br>It’s hard to imagine Donald Trump, these days, submitting to an interview with, say, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC; </p><p>just this week, he turned away from a CNBC interview, and earlier canceled a CBS News 60 Minutes agreement.</p><p>✅ Second, Harris did manage to introduce a few snippets of reality to dedicated Fox viewers who probably haven’t been exposed to some of the most troubling criticisms of Trump.</p><p>“That he’s unfit to serve. That he’s unstable. That’s he’s dangerous,” was how she characterized what millions of Americans are feeling. </p><p>“And that people are exhausted.”</p><p>She even was able to mention, at some length, the harsh view of the former commander-in-chief from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mark</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Milley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milley</span></a>, who served in two top military roles <br>– including chair of the joint chiefs of staff<br> – during the Trump administration.</p><p>Milley has called Trump♦️ “fascist to the core” <br>and has said that <br>💥no one has ever been as dangerous to the United States.</p>