Liberal media personality Kara Swisher revealed the moment she saw Kamala Harris drop her mask.
The 63-year-old, who is known for her progressive views, shared how she felt after the former vice president told her one thing, then did another when she sat down with Harris during her book tour in October at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C.
During a Monday episode of her podcast On with Kara Swisher, the tech journalist sat down with Isaac Chotiner, the principal contributor to The New Yorker’s Q&A series, to talk with him about how he prepares for his in-depth interviews with powerful political figures.
About 30 minutes into their conversation, Swisher turned to a very eye-opening experience she had with the former Democratic presidential nominee that made her want to ‘kill’ Harris.
‘I just had an experience with Kamala Harris where we were joking about something backstage about Robert Kennedy Jr. – circumcision and autism, the link, he was making a link, which is not there,’ Swisher told Chotiner.
In October, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary claimed that circumcision raises a child’s risk of being diagnosed with autism, sparking controversy across the country.
‘And it was so weird, it was like huh, that’s so f***ing strange, and then I got on stage and mentioned it, because it had just been in the news, right?
‘And she looked at me dead and said “This is nothing to laugh about”,’ Swisher recalled, speaking of Harris. ‘And she had just laughed about it.’
Liberal journalist Kara Swisher revealed the shocking moment she witnessed former vice president Kamala Harris switch up her opinion on a controversial topic
Just moments before the two joined each other on stage during Harris’ book tour, the Democrat laughed with Swisher about RFK Jr.’s claim that circumcision raises a child’s risk of being diagnosed with autism, according to Swisher
Swisher further detailed how Harris then proceeded to ‘yell’ at her in front of an audience.
‘And then she went into this sort of high-handed kind of thing where she was like yelling at me for even asking the question. I was just like I’m gonna kill you, I literally can’t believe you just did that, which was interesting,’ she said, adding that the interaction ‘was a real insight.’
After Swisher mentioned what RFK Jr. had said, Harris, who sat across from the journalist on stage, in front of multiple copies of her book 107 Days, looked right at her and said: ‘People will die for what they’re doing, I can’t laugh about that, I’m sorry.’
Harris then told Swisher: ‘Kara, it’s personal for me, it’s personal for me.
‘And I can’t laugh at it because like so many of you who have known people who suffer because of unknown diseases, or cancers, for which there are no cures, or there is the beginning of, but more work that needs to be done for the cure – what they are doing to push misinformation and lies at the highest level of government, it’s criminal!’
Swisher sat there silently, allowing Harris to have her moment, as she added: ‘And people will die because of what they’re doing, and I can’t laugh about that, I’m sorry. It’s f***ed up.’
‘It’s f***ed up,’ Swisher replied before moving onto the next talking point.
But when Harris joined Swisher on stage, her tune changed completely as she started to ‘yell’ at the media star
After bringing up the anecdote about Harris, Isaac Chotiner, a journalist with the New Yorker, chimed in: ‘I sometimes get the sense that she doesn’t realize her political career is over’
After bringing up the anecdote about Harris, Chotiner chimed in: ‘I sometimes get the sense that she doesn’t realize her political career is over.’
‘Idk… It was so funny, I was just like where’s the person backstage who just had a very insightful comment about this? It was really interesting,’ Swisher said.
‘Perhaps telling about her electoral performance,’ Chotiner stated.
‘Yeah, I was like, be the person backstage because that’s the person who gave a great answer, actually,’ she responded.
After RFK Jr. came out with that claim, HHS later told the Daily Mail that he was talking about infants specifically, and not all children.
He was also only suggesting that administering Tylenol to an infant after a circumcision could raise their risk of being diagnosed with autism, and not the circumcision itself.
