In 1989, Vice President Dan Quayle, misrepresenting the motto of the United Negro College Fund, said: “What a waste to lose your mind.” Or not having a mind, is being wasteful. “How true this is.”
He only said, “An unused mind is a terrible waste.”
At that moment, the cringe was so intense that I looked up Quayle’s misquote just to be sure I remembered it correctly, which I did. As someone who began public speaking in high school, I am familiar with the sick feeling and the icy sensation in my stomach when I mess up a simple line in front of hundreds or thousands of people.
The media didn’t forget about it for many years. The best online result I found when I searched for the Quayle misquote from 1989 was an op-ed in the 1992 Los Angeles Times. The media had us memorize that line like a kindergarten lesson in phonics.
Quayle misspoke one line. Vice President Kamala Harris is infamous for throwing word salads around like a spider monkey with a bowl of Scrabble tiles.
Harris is notorious on the Right because we are aware of what happens behind the media curtain. If the Lefty media had treated Harris the same way they treated Quayle she would have been laughed out of the national stage many years ago.
But I digress. I am solemnly responsible for sharing with you today the latest non-statement from Harris. She was asked, on the airport tarmac, over the weekend: “Will the GOP work with you on the border issue?”
You may even recognize the image before I show you her minute-long response. This is the image of an eighth-grade student who was asked by her teacher to speak in front of the class about the book that she had been assigned to read.
She only read the back of the book.
Have you been there? Have you done that? We’ve all done it. Most of us don’t live within a heartbeat or one questionable vote away from the Oval Office.
Watch:
Reporter: Will you work with the GOP on the border issue?
Harris: (I’m still trying to figure out this response!) pic.twitter.com/YUfcThaOb9— The Investigative Examiners (@TruthorConseq12) July 27, 2024
How can you say so many words and not convey a single thought or fact? Ask the child who must speak for a few minutes about “The Oxbow Incident”, without having read it. And don’t even ask me how that particular example came into my mind.
I never imagined I would feel sorry for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. He wouldn’t even know what security was if a deadly dose of fentanyl were injected into his Wheaties. Watch him behind Harris. He appears to be thinking: “And I thought that my old boss was a fool.”
You and I probably both need a rest. Have you reached my point? I’m done. After not only writing two Kamala-Harris pieces during my first four hours of work today but also in the morning. I will not be writing about Kamala Harris for the next 24 to 48 hours.
You’re welcome, America.
