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Kamala’s Fashion Faux Pas: Political Image and Media Tactics
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Has Kamala Harris unintentionally become a fashion icon for all the wrong reasons? This morning, we kick off with a hilarious yet critical discussion on the Vice President's infamous pantsuits. From oversized jackets to ill-fitted trousers, we ponder how her sartorial missteps might affect public perception of her competence and leadership capabilities. While she may not be Melania Trump, could a wardrobe overhaul elevate her professional image?
Join us for a spirited conversation that veers from fashion faux pas to the media's role in shaping political narratives. We highlight Fox News's uncanny ability to freeze-frame politicians' most unflattering facial expressions, providing a comedic yet insightful commentary on media tactics. As we scrutinize the Biden administration's purported achievements, we dissect how statistics can be twisted to support opposing viewpoints. Tune in for a mix of humor, critical analysis, and engaging political debate.
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hello and good morning good morning one and all . What a beautiful day it is today . All right , every day is a beautiful day every day is a beautiful day .
Speaker 1What do we have going on ? We have everything going on yeah yes , absolutely I have a question for you what question do you have ? Unless you wanted to start . Did you want to start with something ? You go right ahead uh , I would like to know what kamala has done as a as her years as a politician . What accomplishments has she done as vice president specifically ? Do you know ?
Speaker 2can you name them . She's ruined the pantsuit . Look for women that she has my god , what are those things I mean ? Can you know we could put a pole in that thing and have a family afford sleeping ?
Speaker 1oh my gosh , I know why those I know the jackets are too long , they're too big , they're . Come on , girl , get with it if she would . I think she's a . She's an attractive 59 year old . I think she's not bad looking . She's not you . I think she's not bad-looking . Well , yeah , she's not . You know , melania Trump , that's for damn sure .
Speaker 2No , absolutely not .
Speaker 1But she's not hideous , no . So I think if she wore some more tailored suits she would look a lot better .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean , there's no question about that . Maybe that's part of it , though . Maybe they want to play down . You know that she's a little attractive , but she doesn't even look businesslike .
Speaker 1She doesn't look dignified . I was going to say that she's always worn those suits , but not really . If you go back and look at her with Montel Williams , she was not wearing those kind of suits , that's for sure .
Speaker 2Well , yeah , and she was a little bit younger than two as well , but uh , just tailor , just tighten up those suits , you know , let's let's look at other world leaders . Lady , lady , world leaders that are respected . Yes , you know they're dressed appropriately . I would call it she's not , she doesn't dress so . So that's an accomplishment . She's taken down fashion and not for women .
Speaker 1Yeah , you know what , not to switch subjects real quick , but do you know what I like about Fox News ?
Speaker 2What .
Speaker 1They can capture the facial expressions of these politicians at just the right moment and plaster them all over the screen . And I love it , especially with this tim walls guy . Yeah , that , because you know he is so superficial . Yeah , you know that he is just having a conniption fit seeing his ridiculous mug on the screen .
Speaker 2The way they capture the worst expressions , yeah , and I love it and I think they , they , they really started perfecting that with , with , uh , sleepy joe . Yes , you know some of the expressions that he has on there , yes , and the ones that they still use well , I think phenomenal .
Speaker 1Yeah , I think tucker started that a long time ago yeah , yeah , that's , that's .
Speaker 2They're good . I can't wait to see more of them yeah because he will produce more .
Speaker 2Yes , but yeah , they haven't . Uh , you know , they can't list accomplishments and when they do list accomplishments for the biden administration , they're all made up Things that have either not occurred or you know . I've always said , and people you know , I can get a statistic about something and I can make you one day look at that statistic and believe that let's go with that , the sky is falling . And then the next day I can present that same statistic , argue the other side of it and make you believe the sky is not falling . So I can take a statistic and make it say everything . And I think that's what they do . They take issues and they flower it up and make you think , oh , this is so wonderful . And then it's like , let's say , inflation right now , you know . They say , you know , inflation is really , you know it's great and all this stuff . Yet it's still rising at a rate higher , although it's come down .
Speaker 2And they may , they want to make you think , oh , that's so much , wonderful , it's so wonderful . Look what we've done . You know , when they haven't done anything , you know they've made no accomplishment , but I guess it's , you know , trying to make . Uh , you know that peed on bed smell good , you know . It just doesn't smell it . Just you know , the longer you're in it , the more you get used to it .
Speaker 2Yes , and you know , look around and say , yeah , it's not too bad , I guess is the best way to put it . But yeah , I see no accomplishments for her . No she can list that she can say you know , look what I've done . Or she'll just lie you know , look what I've done , or she'll just lie . That's what I'm saying . Yeah , that's what I'm saying . Embellish , they don't lie .
Speaker 1Or what's the term ? What's the hipster , doofus term , gaslighting ?
Speaker 2Gaslighting .
Speaker 1Where did that term come from ? They need to knock that crap off right now , because it's not gaslighting . It makes it sound so fanciful . It's blatant lies or like the .
Speaker 2You know the term short , it's something is short-lived not short-lived yeah and kavuto I have not noticed that kavuto is using it now and I think uh , what's his name ? Oh uh , another guy on fox news has said that for quite some time .
Speaker 1I've not heard of that . Oh yeah , I've not heard it .
Speaker 2You know somebody's trying to . You know kind of sort of like top of mind . You know they're going to make that the new catchphrase .
Speaker 1But short-lived is not even right , it's not even correct .
Speaker 2You know , I know that .
Speaker 1You sound like an idiot when you say short-lived . It's not short-lived , it's not , you're right , anyway .
Speaker 2On the lighter side .
Speaker 1Yes , on the lighter side , I know you're excited to talk about football , so it's all yours .
Speaker 2Football is on .
Speaker 1The stage is all yours .
Speaker 2Football is on its way .
Speaker 2Go for it football's on its way . You know , one of the things that I like now about Twitter at this time of year and it starts , you know , a good ways before now but there are several sites and people that will put up a player's number or a player . They don't put his number up , but they'll put a player's number or a player . They don't put his number up , but they'll put a player and say let's go with a great Georgia player , david Pollock days till football . And they'll put a little video in there of David Pollock making plays for Georgia , little video in there of David Pollock making plays for Georgia , which basically is saying you know , 44 days till football , because that was I think that was 44 was David's number .
Speaker 1So you have to know the players in football to understand what they're saying but this would be . I wouldn't , I would see it and I would be like , okay , I don't get it .
Speaker 2But what that site would do would be Georgia players , just Georgia players , not any player from any team . Being a Georgia fan , you know David Pollitt was number 47 . You know there are 47 days to football . They'll put little highlights on there . The other day was one of the hardest hitters safeties that Georgia had was Greg Blue , and it had him and played some highlights of him and you remember the hard hits that he did . There would probably be penalties nowadays . Yeah , because you know you just can't hit . Oh , don't hit him there , it's too hard . The flag , anyway . So that's one of the saving graces for Twitter nowadays you can put good stuff like that up there instead of some of the crap that's on there . So it's a good thing .
Speaker 1What do they sound like again ?
Speaker 2Oh , you can't hit them there . That's too hard . Don't do that .
Speaker 1Funny .
Speaker 2Toodles .
Speaker 1Oh well .
Speaker 2Champagne coulis for everybody .
Speaker 1But you're excited for football .
Speaker 2I am excited for football .
Speaker 1When ? Do you know ? Maybe I'm putting you on the spot here . Do you know ? When is the first game for Georgia this year ?
Speaker 2Yes , it is approximately two weeks away .
Speaker 1Who do they play ?
Speaker 2The Clemson Tigers . We played them in Atlanta .
Speaker 1How is Georgia faring ? Are they looking good ? Are they going to be good ?
Speaker 2Well , our preseason ranking is number one .
Speaker 1Oh , wow .
Speaker 2So that would say , yeah , they're going to be pretty decent .
Speaker 1Here's my memory . Did they win the championship last year ?
Speaker 2No , they got , as Leo would say , they got fucked in the drive-thru . Oh , who did they play ? We beat Florida State in the Orange Bowl . I think it was 63-3 . 65-3 . Right , something like that . But we lost to Alabama in the conference championship . That was the only game we lost . We lost it by three points and they decided that we weren't good enough for the , dropped us from number one to number five , or no , number one to number six , which is just unbelievable and we didn't get to play , even though we were two-time repeating national championships , national champions didn't get to play . They stuck Alabama in there and Alabama lost to Michigan . We would have never lost to Michigan and we would have won the national championship again . I'm just saying that , you know , maybe we would , maybe we wouldn't . It's very difficult for any team to win a championship , much less two in a row . So it was what it was . We may have won , we may have not . You can't really argue that point , but it kind of felt like they were putting Alabama in there because Nick Saban was retiring .
Speaker 2This was going to be his last hurrah .
Speaker 1Who's coaching now , man ?
Speaker 2You know you say that DeBoer he's from Washington , he's a hell of a coach .
Speaker 1So wasn't there an interim coach , like a fill-in coach ? Did they actually hire somebody ?
Speaker 2Yeah , immediately . Did they promote somebody from within ? No , they hired him from the University of Washington .
Speaker 1Oh , no , no no , I wonder how that's going to work out . Well , he's very talented , very highly thought of yeah , but he's not from the South , he's coming in from outside .
Speaker 2Well , the only thing about it is it's very difficult to replace a legend .
Speaker 1Well , that's true . And that's the biggest part about it , no matter how good you are .
Speaker 2And things have changed within the college football arena too , oh , yeah , big time with the portals and all that the portals and the NILs and all that kind of stuff .
Speaker 1They just think they're hot stuff and they can do whatever they want . It's not really a team anymore . It's like oh , look at me , it's me me , me , it's a business . I can't do that because my name in lightning .
Speaker 2It's a business .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2The kids are coming in as business people instead of coming in as student athletes , and that's one of the things . Can Tuscaloosa be that big a NIL draw ? You know it's not in a major . It's definitely not in a major . You know network . You know USC's getting a lot of players from Georgia because they're offering , you know , these NIL deals to them .
Speaker 1You know it's gonna shake things's going to shake things up , that's for sure it is .
Speaker 2It actually is and you know , you can see it happening on a daily basis when you look at all of the . You know the way the conferences are set up . Now you know there's not a Pac-10 , pac-12 . Right All this , you know you've got teams that are all over the country , that are all over the country that are a part of a league . So it's going to take that regional competition out . Eventually . There'll still be some regional competition , but it's becoming more of a professional football league than it is a collegiate sport .
Speaker 1Do you think it's going to make it more enjoyable or less enjoyable ?
Speaker 2More enjoyable for a few .
Speaker 1less enjoyable for a lot more enjoyable for a few , less enjoyable for a lot .
Speaker 2Is it going to make it harder for the SEC to be the powerhouse it once was ? Yeah , I think part of that . You know it's got . I think it's trying . You know all the rules they make . They try to level out the playing field , but they but they'll never do that . It's all going to come down to who has the most money .
Speaker 1So that's sad .
Speaker 2Yeah , and so whoever has the most money will have the best players .
Speaker 1That's sad .
Speaker 2Yeah , it is it really is .
Speaker 1I guess that's the way it goes .
Speaker 2But it also takes it so that you're going to have a top tier of maybe 30 teams . That will be the only teams that can compete for the national championship .
Speaker 1So you can pretty much predict everything . I guess the good part about this is you're gambling , you gamble .
Speaker 2You could probably do well with gambling , no because , that's you know , the odds makers set odds . This is the way they're going to make . They're going to make money . They're not going to set odds to where you make money .
Speaker 1I just figured more predictable , but you could know who's going to win Well if it becomes more predictable , the odds go down .
Speaker 2You know , it becomes an even money bet . But if you lose , you lose Denver .
Speaker 1Yeah , so if we've got an even money , Well , they just make everything sucky now , then don't they Nothing's fun anymore .
Speaker 2Well , you know , that's the whole thing .
Speaker 1They're sucking the life out of us . That's it , I'm done .
Speaker 2Sucking the life out of us .
Speaker 1They are Everything .
Speaker 2Yeah , see , now I'm not even looking forward . Politics , sports , I'm not even looking forward .
Speaker 1What's next ? I'm not even looking forward to football anymore . All right , we got to go . What ?
Speaker 2do you ?
Speaker 1think we need a question of the day .
Speaker 2Okay , let's see .
Speaker 1Oh gosh I don't know , probably needs to be sports related , okay .
Speaker 2Okay , here is the question of the day . With football season coming up , the first day is always special . So what is going to be your game day snack and menu ? Now , I say menu because you've always got one or two , three , four , five things . But what is going to be the prominent feature of your game day snacks ?
Speaker 1all right , that's it . That's the question .
Speaker 2Go Dawgs .
Speaker 1What is yours going to be ?
Speaker 2I think it's going to be sausage cheese Rotel dip .
Speaker 1Oh yes , we haven't had that in a while . Yum , I want it right now . At this hour of the morning , oh my gosh , I want it for breakfast . How hour of the morning ? Oh my gosh , I want it for breakfast .
Speaker 2Why don't you get you a pimento ? How about a pimento cheese sandwich ? All ?
Speaker 1right , we got to go . Y'all have a good one . Thanks for listening .
Speaker 2Go Dawgs .
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