The Murdochs Tried To 'Fox Effect' Harris In 2021
Today Duncan Black asked: Why Did "Everybody" Hate Harris?
Through the long "push Biden out" period, I kept telling friends (and posting here, at times) that the missing issue in the coverage was that all the Very Serious People - the press, the Professional Democrats, I guess what you could think of as the Democratic-Industrial Complex Blob - couldn't stand Harris. They would ask why, and I would say honestly that I had no idea.
An obvious answer is basic misogyny, and of course, that played a role, but I have never had a more fleshed-out answer. There have long been various whisper campaigns that surfaced momentarily in the press about her intelligence, her skills as a boss, how she'd largely been sidelined as VP, etc.
Again, the whisper campaigns themselves are standard manifestations of misogyny, but that doesn't fully explain the impulse behind them... read on
I believe much of the initial backlash against the vice president by Very Serious People - the press, and the "Professional Democrats," was caused by Fox News.
As soon as President Biden was inaugurated, most Fox News programs spent much time on Kamala Harris.
The Murdochs tried to smear her out of existence early on, blunting her rise nationally, both in the Democratic Party and because President Biden was getting older.