The stories are starting to come out…
According to a report from The Financial Times, more information is coming out regarding Kamala Harris’ decision to skip a sit-down interview with podcast host and comedian Joe Rogan.
Harris nearly scheduled the interview but refused to fly to Austin where Rogan hosts the show.
Now, we know her young left-wing staffers were against the idea and ultimately bullied her into passing on what many consider her campaign’s biggest missed media opportunity.
From The Daily Caller:
On Wednesday, the Financial Times shed some new light on the campaign’s decision to nix the Rogan appearance. According to a campaign adviser, woke staffers were upset about the optics of Harris appearing on a show like Rogan’s, which caters to a predominantly non-woke, male audience.
“There was a backlash with some of our progressive staff that didn’t want her to be on it, and how there would be a backlash,” Jennifer Palmieri, a senior adviser to Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, told the Financial Times.
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It’s likely Kamala’s appearance on Rogan’s show would not have made a difference. She probably would’ve bombed. But, for a campaign performing so poorly among young men, it’s also possible an interview with the mega-famous podcaster could’ve helped her make inroads with that demographic. It would’ve been worth a shot, at least. And it was a terrible look for her to back down from an appearance after Trump chopped it up with Rogan for hours.
The saga seems emblematic of so many liberal institutions, which increasingly kowtow to a small minority of whiny activists. Whether it’s in legacy media companies like The Washington Post or The New York Times or prestigious universities like Harvard or Yale, young left-wingers are taking the older crowds out to lunch. The adults in the room are not adults at all: they’re cowards running little daycare centers for the spoiled and stupid.
More over at The Financial Times:
Harris ditched Joe Rogan interview over progressive backlash fears https://t.co/hNWZHWQSZ5
— Financial Times (@FT) November 13, 2024