CNN Slammed for 'Shameless Hour of Kamala Harris Propaganda' — With VP Blasted as 'Flip-Flopping Lightweight'
Andrew Neil has slammed CNN for not going harder on Kamala Harris.
Sept. 3 2024, Published 2:15 p.m. ET
CNN has been slammed over Kamala Harris' first proper sit-down interview with the network.
RadarOnline.com can reveal political commentator Andrew Neil believes some Donald Trump supporters fear the former president "still can't stop" the "flip-flopping" Democratic candidate – even after an interview in which Vice President Harris failed to give a straight answer on fracking, illegal immigration and whether she was turning her back on the Biden Administration.
Neil questioned why Harris' "lap dog" Tim Walz was present for the CNN interview.
Although it was 39 days since Joe Biden stepped aside – making Harris the Democratic presidential nominee – the vice president had not sat down for a broadcast interview.
That all changed when Harris and her 2024 running mate Tim Walz finally sat down with CNN's Dana Brash.
In an op-ed for the Daily Mail, Neil claimed the interview taught viewers nothing new about Harris and the interview allowed Harris to emerge unscathed by not pushing her on any specific issues or her policies.
He wrote: "In essence, Harris remains a mediocre lightweight given to glib answers with no substance."
As the Harris-Trump debate on September 10 approaches, Neil claims the stage will be Trump's chance to exploit the weaknesses Harris displayed in the interview.
Neil said: "The fear among Republican strategists is that Trump is still not doing the heavy lifting required to get across Harris' weak record of almost zero achievements."
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down with CNN's Dana Bash.
Neil blasted the interview for having even more "protective guardrails" since the network allowed it to be pre-recorded.
He continued: "Harris's people (probably rightly) concluded that 'live' was too risky."
According to Neil, interviewer Bash "had her moments", but they were few and far between. She failed to ask proper follow-up questions about the Democratic candidate's "clearly rehearsed answers".
When asked about fracking, she gave a classic non-answer.
She said: "I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time."
One site broke down VP Harris' interview.
Bash also asked about turning her back on the Biden administration, which she called "extraordinary success" and "transformative" years.
Which Neil implored she should have been pressed if they were so great why is she campaigning that she is going to "turn the page".
Walz was also largely ignored by Bash – but when he did get his "moment in the sun, he showed he was up there with Harris when it came to dissembling".
Neil also questioned why CNN billed the interview as an hour-long primetime extravaganza when it lasted less than 30 minutes.
He said: "The rest of the 60 minutes was padded out with footage and soundbites that would not have been out of place in a Harris-Walz campaign commercial, during which Bash was far too cozy and friendly with the pair for a supposedly independent journalist."
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Neil also brought up fears Trump may not be able to beat Harris in November.
In one of the latest polls, Harris and Trump are essentially neck and neck in the race for the White House.
In a broader four-way contest, Harris and Trump are deadlocked at 45% while independent candidates Cornel West and Jill Stein scrape by with just 1% each.
When West and Stein are removed from the equation, the race remains just as tight.
Harris holds a thin two-point lead over Trump 48% to 46% – a margin so slim it's well within the statistical margin of error.
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