Vice President Kamala Harris continued her tour of friendly interviews on Tuesday as she joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert for four segments and a beer on The Late Show. Colbert, who is off for the rest of the week, began with a 60 Minutes parody where he hyped the upcoming interview, “Good evening. It has been a tradition here at The Late Show since yesterday that the major party candidates sit down with me for an interview in October. We invited Kamala Harris to be our guest this evening, and she accepted. That interview in a moment. In the interest of fairness, we also invited former president Donald Trump to go [bleep] himself. He declined our offer.”     In his monologue, Colbert further previewed the softball interview to come as he listed off a series of biographical details, “She attended law school in San Francisco, where she lived with her sister, Maya, and helped her potty-train Maya's daughter. When talking about the experience, Harris said, ‘I'm dealing with this brutal stuff, dog-eat-dog in school, and then I would come home, and we would all stand by the toilet and wave bye to a piece of [bleep].’ Yeah. And if she wins next month, we all get to have the same experience. During the interview, Colbert gushed, “I want to talk about the debate for a second. Which was one of the greatest debate performances I had ever seen anyone do regardless of the opponent, but I want to ask about this.” Holding up a photo of Harris resting her hand beneath her chin, Colbert asked, “This moment went viral from the debate. Can you tell us what you're thinking at this moment right here? And keep in mind, this is CBS, so keep it clean. What was going through your mind there?” Cracking herself up, Harris replied, “It's family TV, right? It starts with a W, there’s a letter in between and then the last letter's F.” Colbert then switched topics, “Your economic plan includes small business tax credits, child care credits, down payment assistance, and other things. Those are the major ones people talk about. One of the ways that you wanted to help pay for some of that is to have billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.” He then wondered, “There are quite a few billionaires who support you… Who's your favorite billionaire? Because we all have a favorite billionaire. On three. One, two, three. Oprah. I'm sorry. I claimed Oprah. You can't take her now.”   Harris took the opportunity to claim, “We have to agree that teachers and firefighters and nurses should not be paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations. In their second segment, a sarcastic Colbert tried to bat away GOP arguments that Harris is tied to President Joe Biden’s record, “Your opponent and his vice president, the other night at the debates said, ‘Well, Kamala Harris has been vice president for three and a half years. Why hasn't she fixed everything already?’ Can you describe to them what the job of vice president is like and what have you told Tim Walz about the job? Have you described to him the vast powers vested in the vice presidency?” Harris was happy to take the cover, “I have pointed out through my three and a half years of being vice president that it's vice president and there are a lot of responsibilities that you take on.” In the third segment, Colbert was more solemn as he distressingly turned to the Middle East, “Yesterday marked one year since Hamas attacked Israel and led to the massive response by Israel in Gaza. Many people at this point, a year in, are not only horrified by what they’re seeing there, but some people throw off their hands because they see no hope for any sort of peaceful resolution, especially with the spreading to Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah and the attacks by Iran on Israel now. Does anything about this give you hope?”     Harris gave a long and rambling answer that concluded, “We cannot lose some belief in the possibility of it. Because then, to your point, we throw up our hands instead of rolling up our sleeves. But it is complex and it is a conversation that requires probably more time than you and I have right now, but, yeah.” Colbert tried again, “Well, how about briefly then, not to interrupt, but briefly we've been told that a ceasefire deal was very close several times. What does that mean? What does ‘close’ mean?” Harris replied that “details remained” before claiming that “we've got to get a deal done” because of the pain that the hostage families and Palestinians are experiencing.     In their fourth and final segment, Colbert returned to the softballs, “When you first became the nominee and named Tim Walz as your vice president nominee, people were calling at the vibe election. The vibes were all good but elections, I think are won on vibes, because one of the old saws is ‘they just want someone they want to have a beer with’ so would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that's like? Now, we asked ahead of time because I can't just be giving a drink to the vice president of the United States without asking. You asked for Miller High Life. I'm just curious. As the two shared a drink, Colbert quipped, “So, that covers Wisconsin. Okay. All right, let's do Pennsylvania. Let's do Pennsylvania. Eagles or Steelers and no one will be mad. Just choose one of those, but I'm sure it.” Harris replied “49ers,” and with Thursday Night Football only a day away, the only reasonable response to that is “Go Hawks.” Here is a transcript for the October 8 show: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 10/8/2024 11:36 PM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: Good evening. It has been a tradition here at The Late Show since yesterday that the major party candidates sit down with me for an interview in October. We invited Kamala Harris to be our guest this evening, and she accepted. That interview in a moment. In the interest of fairness, we also invited former president Donald Trump to go [bleep] himself. He declined our offer. … She attended law school in San Francisco, where she lived with her sister, Maya, and helped her potty-train Maya's daughter. When talking about the experience, Harris said, "I'm dealing with this brutal stuff, dog-eat-dog in school, and then I would come home, and we would all stand by the toilet and wave bye to a piece of [bleep]." Yeah. And if she wins next month, we all get to have the same experience. … 12:00 AM ET COLBERT: I want to talk about the debate for a second. Which was one of the greatest debate performances I had ever seen anyone do regardless of the opponent, but I want to ask about this. Can you tell you us, this moment went viral from the debate. Can you tell us what you're thinking at this moment right here? And keep in mind, this is CBS, so keep it clean. What was going through your mind there? KAMALA HARRIS: It's family TV, right? It starts with a W, there’s a letter in between and then the last letter's F.  COLBERT: Your economic plan includes small business tax credits, child care credits, down payment assistance, and other things. Those are the major ones people talk about. One of the ways that you wanted to help pay for some of that is to have billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.  HARRIS: Yeah, yeah, and big corporations. COLBERT: And big corporations. You know, there are quite a few billionaires who support you. HARRIS: Yes.  COLBERT: You are from northern California, after all— HARRIS: Right. COLBERT: Were they grow them in fields out there. Who's your favorite billionaire? Because we all have a favorite billionaire. On three. One, two, three. Oprah. I'm sorry. I claimed Oprah. You can't take her now. HARRIS: But in all seriousness. COLBERT: Oh, no, not in all seriousness. HARRIS: We have to agree that teachers and firefighters and nurses should not be paying a higher tax rate than billionaires and the biggest corporations. COLBERT: This, I agree. … COLBERT: Your opponent and his vice president, the other night at the debates said “Well, Kamala Harris has been vice president for three and a half years. Why hasn't she fixed everything already?” Can you describe to them what the job of vice president is like and what have you told Tim Walz about the job? Have you described to him the vast powers vested in the vice presidency? HARRIS: I have pointed out through my three and a half years of being vice president that it's vice president and there are a lot of responsibilities that you take on. But did you see the kid who was interviewed after their debate? Oh, you have to see it, Stephen. He gave a total civics lesson about the role of vice president. … COLBERT: Yesterday marked one year since Hamas attacked Israel and led to the massive response by Israel in Gaza. Many people at this point, a year in, are not only horrified by what they’re seeing there, but some people throw off their hands because they see no hope for any sort of peaceful resolution, especially with the spreading to Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah and the attacks by Iran on Israel now. Does anything about this give you hope? Do you know anything about what is possible in that area, reasonably, that would give people reason to frankly keep paying attention? Because Americans will eventually throw up their hands if there is no possible solution. HARRIS: So yesterday we commemorated that massacre that took place on October 7 last year and Doug and I actually decided to have a very simple, brief ceremony. We planted a pomegranate tree at the vice president's residence. In honor of those who were lost, in honor of also what, frankly, and I spoke about this. We must always retain which level of faith in what is possible in terms of shining a light on a moment of darkness.  I truly believe that's important and it is something we learn regardless of your religion or just, I think, what we should all retain some level of optimism and in this matter, we must have a ceasefire and hostage deal as immediately as possible. This war has got to end. It has to end. And we cannot lose some belief in the possibility of it. Because then, to your point, we throw up our hands instead of rolling up our sleeves. But it is complex and it is a conversation that requires probably more time than you and I have right now, but, yeah. COLBERT: Well, how about briefly then, not to interrupt, but briefly we've been told that a ceasefire deal was very close several times. What does that mean? What does "close" mean? HARRIS: Close means that a lot of the details have been worked out, but details remained. And so there has been some progress. But it is meaningless unless a deal is actually reached. So, I don't want to suggest to you that we should be applauded for getting close at times to a deal. The reality of it is 1,200 people massacred. There are still hostages being held in Gaza. I've met with the families of hostages, both who are alive and who have, as we learned recently, who have died.  I have met with families of Palestinians who have been killed, innocent people have been killed in Gaza and there is pain, pain that, and suffering that is happening in that region of the world and we must work, and the United States must work and not lose hope and not throw up our hands around the role we must play in urging and seeking and building toward a resolution and the first thing that's going to unlock that is that we've got to get a deal done and we're not going to give up. … COLBERT: When you first became the nominee and named Tim Walz as your vice president nominee, people were calling at the vibe election. The vibes were all good but elections, I think are won on vibes, because one of the old saws is "they just want someone they want to have a beer with" so would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that's like? Now, we asked ahead of time because I can't just be giving a drink to the vice president of the United States without asking. You asked for Miller High Life. I'm just curious. HARRIS: Okay, the last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. Okay, cheers. COLBERT: So, cheers, there you go. Ooh. Tastes like the beautiful city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. HARRIS: The champagne of beers. COLBERT: There you go. So, that covers Wisconsin. Okay. All right, let's do Pennsylvania. Let's do Pennsylvania. HARRIS: Okay. COLBERT:  Eagles or Steelers and no one will be mad. Just choose one of those, but I'm sure it will be fine. HARRIS: 49ers. 

They call themselves “independent fact-checkers,” but in their “independent” opinion, Republicans have a “culture of lying.” So said PolitiFact founder Bill Adair in promoting his new book, provocatively titled Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy. According to Adair’s book, “the problem began before Donald Trump and will continue after he’s gone." Adair argued it went back to Newt Gingrich, who spurred a Republican House majority in 1994. That sends a signal that the "fact checkers" are in fact Democrats. Gingrich rhetorically broke away from the notion that Democrats were a loyal opposition. He had a more smash-mouth approach that the Democrats weren't good people, but people who wanted to undermine America. They think that's a lie. That deep-seated belief that Republicans lie incessantly matches the current “fact checking” output of PolitiFact. In a NewsBusters analysis of six months of PolitiFact articles (April to September) that evaluated a named politician or public official with a “Truth-O-Meter” ruling reveals that PolitiFact is profoundly tilted against the GOP:   REPUBLICANS (107 fact checks) True/Mostly True: 11 (10.3 percent) Half True: 8 (7.5 percent) Mostly False/False/ Pants On Fire: 88 (82.2 percent) So Republicans are tagged as factually wrong more than four out of five times. It intensified in August and September, when the False-to-True ratio was 51 to 5, more than ten to one.  Now compare it to the Other Party: DEMOCRATS (75 fact checks) True/Mostly True: 27 (36 percent) Half True: 17 (22.7 percent) Mostly False/False/Pants on Fire 31 (41.3 percent) Often Democrats are found equally True and False, with a healthy dash of Half Trues. This finding is actually tougher on the Democrats than it was in the first quarter, when the False-to-True ratio was 10 to 22. In September, PolitiFact found the Democrats on the True side three times and on the False side ten times (and six Half Trues). But as a percentage, Democrats were half as False as Republicans -- and in raw numbers, the Republicans were almost three times more likely to get flagged as False. So adding those numbers to our earlier study of January to March, the difference is clear: Republicans 19-16-135 (79.4 percent Mostly False or worse) Democrats 49-24-41 (36.0 percent Mostly False or worse, but True more than False)   The difference is starker with the presidential nominees. Donald Trump was fact-checked 42 times from April to September, and none were on the True side, two were Half True, and 40 were Mostly False or worse. Forty to zero. Does that look nonpartisan to anyone? Add in the first quarter, and it's 57 to 0. Fully 15 of the 40 new False verdicts were the worst designation of "Pants On Fire," falling just short of the 17 False rulings. From April to September, President Biden was checked 19 times, and he was on the True side as often as the False side, seven and seven (with five Half Trues). For the year, it's nine on the True side and 11 on the False side (10 Half Trues). In that time frame, Kamala Harris was checked 17 times, and she was rated as True or Mostly True on six occasions, and as Mostly False or worse on eight occasions (six Mostly False, two False). She had three Half Trues. For the year, it's eight on the True side and nine on the False side (three Half Trues). Biden drew zero “Pants on Fire” warnings this year, and has only seven of those in the entire history of PolitiFact going back to 2007 (just one during his presidency). Kamala Harris has zero overall, and she was first elected statewide in California in 2010. Trump currently has 201. This is where you can see PolitiFact's editorial aggression, since Newt Gingrich has only twelve. Bernie Sanders has a perfect zero like Kamala. In the April to September time frame, Republicans were whacked as "Pants on Fire" 19 times, and the Democrats only once. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker drew one -- for saying on ABC's This Week that J.D. Vance is "getting known for his obsession with couches." On September 4, Trump was rated as “Pants on Fire” for calling Kamala Harris a “communist.”  But Democrats and leftists (even TV hosts) have called Trump a “fascist.” Search PolitiFact for a harsh rating on that, and you won’t find any fact check. So when you point out this dramatic and partisan disparity, that's painted as just trying to intimidate the People of Fact, according to Bill Adair. His book promo explains "Adair examines how Republicans have tried to change the landscape to allow their lying by intimidating the news media, people in academia and government, and tech companies.”

American citizens impacted by Hurricane Helene have been all but abandoned by FEMA. Apparently, the relief organization is out of money because it’s been focusing on everyone who is not an American citizen — including the Ukrainians and untold numbers of illegal immigrants who have been welcomed into the country by the Biden administration. On October 3, the New York Post tweeted the following: However, Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is doing what she always does: cover up the administration’s horrendous policies with bold-faced lies. In a recent press conference, Jean-Pierre was questioned about Biden’s use of FEMA funds to support “undocumented migrants.” “Former president Trump is accusing the Biden administration of using FEMA funding to support undocumented migrants. How is the White House responding?” one reporter asked. “It’s just categorically false,” Jean-Pierre retorted before adding that Trump is actually the one who used FEMA funds to support immigrants. Dave Rubin, however, is throwing the flag and pulling receipts. He plays a video from 2022 during which Jean-Pierre standing at the same podium admits that FEMA funds are indeed being used for illegal immigrants. - YouTube www.youtube.com “FEMA regional administrators have been meeting with city officials on-site to coordinate available federal support from FEMA and other federal agencies. Funding is also available through FEMA's emergency food and shelter program to eligible local governments and not-for-profit organizations upon request to support humanitarian relief for migrants,” Jean-Pierre said. “In '22, yes, FEMA resources were being moved to help with illegal immigrants, and just days ago, she’s saying it didn't happen,” sighs Dave. “They lie about everything.” And if you need further proof that FEMA funds illegal immigrants, look no further than FEMA’s own website. “Hot diggity dog, it's even on their freaking website,” says Dave, reading from “Shelter and Services Program” page. “The Shelter and Services Program (SSP) is administered by the FEMA in partnership with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). SSP provides financial support to non-federal entities to provide humanitarian services to noncitizen migrants following their release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The intent is to support the CBP in safe, orderly and humane release of noncitizen migrants from short-term holding facilities.” “They lie about everything,” Dave reiterates. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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SO Genuine! On Colbert, Kamala Harris Takes a Page From Elizabeth Warren to Woo Swing State Voters