Kamala Harris has a right to be angry. President Biden respects her, treats her as an equal, has her at his side during everything important, and has given her important duties, and yet they remain largely undefined except the unwinnable problems at the border.

Additionally, she the press has been ridiculously harsh on her, the mainstream press should be ashamed of itself. Every little negative story seems to get disproportionate coverage (to say nothing about Fox) and her successes go unmentioned. She has had a lot of people come and go from her office and the press’s summation is that Harris hard to work for. How about the fact that it’s hard to work in a job in which one cannot win? The media knows that the situation is far more complicated than “Harris is hard to work for” and yet that’s the story that has set in.

So it isn’t surprising that Harris got a bit… testy, angry is too strong a word, but unhappy with Charlamagne tha God (Stage name, we presume), who interviewed her on Saturday.

We borrow much of the transcript from Mediaite but the comments on the press’s unfair coverage of Harris come from this site alone. We are pushing back. From Mediaite:

We need you to be the superhero that saves democracy,” Charlamagne told Harris.

“Somebody has to push back on Joe Manchin. That guy is stopping progress. He’s ruining democracy. Are you willing to be that superhero? ‘Cause what scares me is if the voting rights don’t pass, the Build Back Better doesn’t pass, or police reform doesn’t pass, I doubt you’re gonna get Black people to go out there and vote in 2022 and 2024. And, you know, Trump will be president again. What’s the plan for all of that?”

(PF Jason): Charlamagne doesn’t think that Biden and Harris aren’t harassing Manchin every day and threatening to light him on fire if he doesn’t come around?

Harris: “I couldn’t agree with you more on the seriousness of these issues and how people take these issues seriously. And so we’re gonna have to keep fighting on voting rights. We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. We need to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, and be relentless about pushing for that.”

Charlamagne pressed Harris on Manchin.

I want to know who the real president of this country is? Is it Joe Biden or Joe Manchin?”

(PF, Jason) At that point, Harris’s staff committed malpractice and quite obviously tried to bail her out of a tough question, live, in a way that could be heard. TERRIBLE.

The voice jumped into the conversation.

“I’m sorry,” she said, “It’s Symone. I’m so sorry Charlamagne. We have to wrap.”

Though her face was obscured, the ‘Symone’ was presumably Harris aide Symone Sanders, who is departing the vice president’s office later this month.

“She can hear me,” Charlamagne shot back.

After some crosstalk and another “We gotta wrap” from Sanders, Charlamagne claimed, “They’re acting like they can’t hear me.”

“I can hear you,” said Harris.

CHARLAMAGNE: So who’s the real president of this country? Is it Joe Manchin or Joe Biden?”

HARRIS: Come on, Charlamagne. Come on. It’s Joe Biden.

CHARLAMAGNE: I can’t tell sometimes.

HARRIS: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It’s Joe Biden, and don’t start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he’s president. And it’s–

CHARLAMAGNE: Do you think Joe Manchin is a problem?

(PF, Jason: If he thinks he’s getting a yes or no question on a question like that he’s dumber than we are. The question one should ask is, “Manchin has been a BIG problem, what specifically do you plan to do about it?” This isn’t that hard)

HARRIS: And it’s Joe Biden. And I’m vice president and my name is Kamala Harris, and the reality is, because we are in office we do the things like the child tax credit which is going to reduce Black child poverty by 50% – on track to do that. We do things that are about saying that our Department of Justice is gonna do these investigations and require that we end chokeholds and have body cameras.

It is the work of saying, we are going to get lead out of pipes and paint because are babies are suffering because of that. It is the work of saying, people who ride public transit deserve the same kind of dignity that anybody else does, so let’s improve that system. It is the work of saying that we have got to bring down prescription drug costs because folks who have diabetes should not be dying because they don’t have enough money in their pocket. it’s about saying Black maternal mortality is a real issue that must be treated by everybody, including the White House, as a serious issue.

I hear the frustration. but let’s not deny the impact that we’ve had, and agree also that there is a whole lot more work to be done. And it is not easy to do, but we will not give up. And I will not give up.

PF Jason: That is as angry as one is going to hear from VP Harris because once again, all the good work goes ignored, and the sole focus has been on the problem someone else is causing.

CHARLAMAGNE: I just want you to know, Madame Vice President, that Kamala Harris, that’s the one I like. That’s the one that was putting the pressure on people in Senate hearings. That’s the one I’d like to see more often out here in these streets. Thank you for joining us, Madame Vice President.

HARRIS: I’m glad to be with you.

Back to Political Flare:

Well, yes, it ended better, but that there in the middle, that is a frustrated Vice President and it is very hard to blame her. She must be extremely pissed at Joe Manchin and Sen. Sinema (pompous first timer… thinking she’s the new McCain after two years…) but the Vice President is probably also pretty pissed off at people acting like they haven’t gotten a thing done or made any difference whatsoever already! We aren’t even mentioning the fact that every single negative thing about her personally is covered and very little of the tremendous amount of wonderful work she has done.

She does need to look at whether she has the right staff. but that’s a topic for another day.

Good for VP Harris for showing her attitude a bit. She needs to do that a bit more in our opinion. After all, she did get the job by being the tough as nails Senator who wasn’t afraid to ask anyone anything.

Heated exchange b/t @cthagod and Kamala Harris when he asks her if Biden or Manchin are president

"It's Joe Biden — and don't start talking like a Republican about asking whether or not he's president…I hear the frustration, but let's not deny the impact that we've had," pic.twitter.com/Itz9mqY6H9

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) December 18, 2021

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