New Yorker Magazine Goes After ‘Generic’ Kamala Harris

New Yorker magazine said Vice President Kamala Harris‘ plans to run as a “generic” candidate with zero policy details on her website or at rallies might be “good for her campaign, but not for voters.”

In a piece published Thursday, titled “How Generic Can Kamala Harris Be?,” the magazine said it appears Harris’ strategy to the White House is to offer no information about how she will govern, pointing out what Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance has said, which is that Harris has taken almost “no questions from reporters.”

“She has not explained what, exactly, happened in Washington after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate; or why she has changed her mind on fracking, which she once said should be banned, and has wobbled on Medicare for All, which she once supported; or what she plans to do with Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission, who is said to be unpopular among some of Harris’s wealthy donors; or much about how a Harris Administration would handle the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East,” the author wrote.

The magazine pointed out that the official website for the Harris presidential campaign doesn’t even “have a policy section, or an articulation of beliefs,” only buttons for things like her bio, merch, and donations.

The author said reporters should care that Harris “has not done a sitdown interview or had to answer a substantive policy question in weeks. A generic candidate who promises nothing on the campaign trail and is unburdened by any past might be the dream of electoral-politics nerds, but it’s the job of the press in a healthy democracy to make sure that voters know whom they’re supporting.”

Since Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic ticket, many liberals seem to be “enveloped in a pleasant if thin fog,” @jaycaspiankang writes. Should we care that she hasn’t had to answer a substantive policy question in weeks? https://t.co/aiVyrbkpr7

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) August 9, 2024

“An unexamined candidate can become anything, and can work under the influence of anyone, when they assume power,” the author added. “This week, Wes Moore, the Democratic governor of Maryland, suggested on CNBC that a Harris Administration would change course from Biden’s more restrictive regulatory economic policies and create a friendlier atmosphere for ‘our large industries.’ Was he speaking on Harris’s behalf? Does he know something that Harris has declined to share with the public herself?”

The piece noted that Harris has “called for an end to the war in Gaza and has coupled her concern about the suffering of Palestinians with an ironclad support for Israel. But how does she plan on bringing about the ceasefire that she says she’s for?”

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Another Harris flip-flop highlighted in the piece was how the Times reported that the Democratic presidential nominee had reportedly told “leaders of the Uncommitted Movement, seeking to discuss an arms embargo,” that she was “open to a meeting” only to have her national security adviser the next day state that Harris “was not in favor of an arms embargo. Why the seeming change in tone?”

“And how does Harris feel about the student protesters who will be returning to their campuses in the upcoming weeks?” the piece added. “We don’t know the answers to any of these questions.”

The author concludes the piece by pointing out that whether the press likes it or not, it will have to start “demanding answers.”

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Pamela Anderson Says She’s Moving Away From The ‘Cartoon Character’ Image She Created

“Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson discussed her effort to change her public image from the “cartoon character” she says she has created.

The 57-year-old Canadian-born model and actress is best known for appearing in Playboy magazine in the 90s, multiple breast implant surgeries, and her standout role as C.J. Parker on “Baywatch.” Anderson also went viral in 1995 after a sex tape of her and then-husband, Tommy Lee, was stolen and distributed.

The actress surprised fans recently by making public appearances without makeup, which is a far departure from the sex symbol, makeup-heavy look she’d become known for. Anderson discussed changing her look while promoting her upcoming cookbook.

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The interviewer from Better Homes & Gardens asked specifically about Anderson going makeup-free, to which she replied, “That was the beginning of me letting go of the image I had always had of myself. What is this cartoon character that I’d created? OK, that was fun. But I’m not that person anymore.”

She continued, “It was a dance I was doing that I was only partly aware of. And looking back, I can see why I did it. But I’ve always been into being a homemaker too.”

The actress said, “All the kids were always at our house. I cooked for everybody, pots of spaghetti for the neighborhood, and so my kids have always seen that part of me. And it hurt them to think that those other things are the only things people think of their mom. Yes, she’s been in Playboy. Yes, she’s done all these things, but we know who she is. It’s different now.”

Anderson also discussed what it was like for her before. “I don’t know what happened over the last few decades, but I feel now so far removed from the image of who I was. I felt very sad and lonely,” she told BHG. “I didn’t feel just misunderstood. I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes,” the former “Baywatch” star added.

“I was hard on myself, and I thought I put my family through a lot and put my kids through so much. I came to a point where I decided to move home and disappear and get into my garden.”