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Cheryl at LGM posted about Kamala Harris’ interview on the podcast called Call Her Daddy.  I just listened to it, and it’s good.  Here’s Cheryl’s summary of Harris’ media interviews in the next few days:

Harris will do interviews this week with Univision, Howard Stern, The View, Stephen Colbert, and 60 Minutes.

I’ve never listened to Call Her Daddy before, but it’s a podcast aimed at younger women.  Univision’s audience is obvious.  Howard Stern: incels [edit: and old guys].  The View:  women who aren’t working during the day.  Colbert:  late-night viewers.  60 Minutes:  the olds who still watch broadcast TV.  Most of the audience of these shows consists of people who don’t read the publications that are whining about not getting a Harris interview.

This is a solid media strategy and I hope to see more of it.  The host of Call Her Daddy, Alex Cooper, was clearly a little worried about adding “politics” to her podcast, and she’ll probably lose listeners over it.  But she did a good job:  she asked questions that would interest her audience.  She didn’t have any gotchas.  Harris was frank, honest and in command of the issues, mainly around reproductive rights.

Similarly, Taylor Swift will probably lose some of her fans over her endorsement of Harris.  The fact that she, Alex Cooper and others are taking risks with their livelihood shows a degree of bravery that’s impressive.  Speaking of Tay-tay, remember the asshole who paid $4K for a guitar supposedly signed by her, then smashed it?  That guitar wasn’t signed by her.

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  2. 2.

    Baud

    Howard Stern: incels.

    I assumed his fans were older people.

    I think the number of fans Taylor will lose is a rounding error. But I still appreciate her support.

  6. 6.

    Eric S.

    @Hoodie: I agree it is Incels and older men, but the one person I know who listens to Stern is a early 50s woman in medical device sales.

  9. 9.

    Craig

    The more the not hit dogs holler the more Harris should ignore the Times and the Post. Since she’s from Cal maybe sit down with someone at The LA Times.

  10. 10.

    RSA

    Speaking of Tay-tay, remember the asshole who paid $4K for a guitar supposedly signed by her, then smashed it?  That guitar wasn’t signed by her.

    When I first heard this story, I visualized an album cover.  If you’re close to Kamala’s age, like me, you know the one: The Clash, London Calling. So when I saw the video of this guy carrying a hammer with him so that he could break an acoustic guitar, I had to laugh.  Feeble.  And then to find out it wasn’t one of Taylor’s guitars? Cherry on top.

  11. 11.

    Eric S.

    I knew of but didn’t pay any attention to Swift until she started dating Kelce. And I’m not a football fan either. I just loved how it irked the toxic masculinity crowd. How she’s handled that and her endorsement of Harris has really made me appreciate her as a person. (Still not this stick in the mud’s music of choice)

  12. 12.

    Betty Cracker

    I am weirdly at peace with the upcoming election; usually I’m more anxious. Already voted and am otherwise doing my bit. That’s enough.

  15. 15.

    Gretchen

    People like Andrea Mitchell keep saying Harris needs to do “tough” interviews, but never specify exactly what they want her to be asked that isn’t being asked. Cooper asked about student loans, reproductive rights, the cost of housing, which are all things the average voter is concerned about. Big name journalists Margaret Brennan, Norah O’Donnell, and Dana Bash had prime time tv slots, and they asked about Walz saying IVF when he really used IUI (do even 1% of voters know what IUI stands for? I didn’t) and he said he was in Hong Kong when Tianamen Square happened when he really meant that he was there the same summer, a few weeks later. Those are the “tough questions” the media wants the chance to ask, a gotcha to say “both sides lie”. Actual voters want to know about abortion access and grocery prices, and you’re not going to get a viral gotcha quote out of that.

  16. 16.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Baud:

    I assumed his fans were older people.

    Hell yeah. I remember listening to Stern on DC-101 back in the late 1970s while driving to work.  (Driving to work + 45 years ago = no spring chicken.)

  17. 17.

    VFX Lurker

    @Craig: The more the not hit dogs holler the more Harris should ignore the Times and the Post. Since she’s from Cal maybe sit down with someone at The LA Times.

    I subscribe to The Los Angeles Times, but I doubt it has the reach of Colbert or 60 Minutes.

    Even the “Call Her Daddy” podcast has more subscribers than the Los Angeles Times. (nearly 1 million vs ~600k).

  18. 18.

    Jager

    @geg6: If you cared about New York after 911, Stern was the place to go for the straight shit about what was going on in the city. I had him on one of our FMs in South Florida, and he did an outstanding reflecting the feelings of native NYers…great radio. 911 changed him.

  19. 19.

    Another Scott

    NPR’s All Things Considered had a short segment on this today. Ari was incredibly dismissive, as one might expect. Elena Moore did a decent job.

    It’s a 3:37 audio clip – the transcript will appear later.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  21. 21.

    JPL

    @Betty Cracker: I’m suffering from insomnia, but I’m not having nightmares about the freedom girls.

     

    BTW  Scott Pelley just nailed trump about his lies dealing with the appearance on Sixty Minutes.

  24. 24.

    dmsilev

    @VFX Lurker: Probably not, but the LA Times would count as “serious media” (in the eyes of, well, media members who take themselves too seriously). Not the NYT though; the only venue “serious” enough for them is, by odd coincidence, themselves.

  25. 25.

    hitchhiker

    I listened to it, too.

    24 hrs ago I’d never heard of this (apparently wildly popular & successful podcast), but I came away pretty impressed. The host is younger than both my daughters by a few years, and they’d never heard of her either. She was quite good, I thought, and there were moments when she and Harris really connected. I hope her no-not-politics! fans heard something that convinced them to fucking vote.

  28. 28.

    Steve LaBonne

    @Nukular Biskits: I don’t either. I don’t understand the whining in some corners about the campaign “stalling” and the whiners never seem to have realistic suggestions for what she should be doing differently or additionally. I really don’t think she’s leaving any money on the table and I think it’s pretty remarkable for a campaign that had so little time (by American standards) to get up to speed.

  30. 30.

    Anonymous At Work

    @JPL: Disagree.  She’s lost some followers, more than she gained, but she’s gained some friends.  Anyone that breaks a friendship over what she’s done was never her friend.

  31. 31.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud: Sorry, age isn’t working in my favor on this one.

    The normies all around me are making me hella nervous.

    I have to have lunch with one of them tomorrow, and I’m dreading it.

  32. 32.

    Betty

    Bill Whitaker is annoying the heck out of me with this 60 Minutes interview.  Why, if you believe Trump is a racist, does he have so many supporters? ‘Tis  mystery, Bill.

  33. 33.

    HumboldtBlue

    The Daily Beast had a British gossip writer criticize the Harris interview on Call Her Daddy because it wasn’t hard-hitting or some such fucking nonsense. Then the writer grabbed comments that were critical of the podcaster, angry angry angry they were. It was such a silly article, a gossip column, not a fucking news story.

  34. 34.

    Craig

    @Baud: more of a stick in the eye to the Times and Post sorta thing. Not gonna happen, but it’s happy hour here, so… spitballing.

  35. 35.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Baud: Looking at vids.  Classic Transient Ischemic Attack, like Moscow Mitch has.  Hope he’s okay.  Strokes are bad things.

  38. 38.

    frosty

    For me the link went to a podcast right after Joe dropped out. Anybody else? Is there a good link preferably with video?

    ETA found the 44 minute podcast from the LGM link.

  39. 39.

    lamh47

    I would actually say, Sterns listeners are GenX incels and their children (I can never remember what the Gens that follow GenX is.  Always gets confused).  Stern is not the “shock” jock he used to be.  From what I’ve seen and heard, he’s actually a great interviewer.

    I’ve been saying since her slew of interviews was announced and the political media folks started whining, no one reads Politico except folks already dialled into social media and politics and those types of folks already know who they will be voting for…the majority of the other folks, ya know where they get their “news” from…check out the list of folks MVP Harris IS talking to.

    Chump is ONLY talking to news outlets that are watched by folks already on his side or voting for him. Nothing expanding his voter group about that strategy…seems to me like the Chump campaign knows they need to keep their folks from fleeing.

    If even half of the usual listeners of this show doesn’t just turn it off or just listen and screaming “whatever”, some of what she’ll say and discuss will permeate their brains, even just through osmosis and if half of those folks reconsider Harris/Walz..and vote for them instead of Chump or just abstain from voting for POTUS, guess what we win…yes we want downballot wins, but the top of the ticket is who we really need to reach the most. if Dem GOTV efforts are strong we’ll retain the Senate AND just might retake the House!

  40. 40.

    Craig

    @Gretchen: like Mrs. Greenspan is capable of doing a tough interview. Her ego is sad, she should retire, but can’t handle how irrelevant she’d become without her job.

  42. 42.

    Gretchen

    @Another Scott: I was interested to hear that Call Her Daddy has a large audience in the south. Ari complained that Cooper didn’t provide any pushback, but again doesn’t specify what he wants that pushback to be. She should have just been “tougher”. Pushback is justified if the person is lying or wrong, but what is the pushback if they’re not lying or wrong?

  43. 43.

    Barbara

    @Steve LaBonne: ​Like, maybe they access campaign coverage through the same MSM outlets they disdain and don’t really read the regional and non-traditional sources that Harris seems to be tapping into?

  50. 50.

    West of the Rockies

    OT, but does anyone think there is a state or two that could actually, surprisingly switch to blue?  NC is the obvious pick but does anyone here think maybe another state or two could pleasantly surprise us?

  54. 54.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @West of the Rockies: I’m holding out hope and intentions, seeing it possible.

    Years ago, Colorado was red.. it’s blue now, except for some districts, so we have a “balance “

  56. 56.

    Gretchen

    @CHETAN R MURTHY: Right? That had the chance to ask, in prime time, with millions of viewers deciding the most consequential election of our lifetime, and they chose to use the time to quibble about the timing of a trip he took 45 years ago!

  57. 57.

    Jay

    BTW, check your voter registrations if you are in a Red State.

    In Georgia, between the Primaries and now, many people have lost their status, and tomorrow is the last day to confirm.

    The Purges are ongoing.

  58. 58.

    TBone

    @Betty: I’d like to slap that fucking guy! 🙄 What a lame ass thing to do, cut off VP Harris mid sentence to do repeated voiceovers speaking over her! 🤬

  60. 60.

    JPL

    @TBone: I thought they held thier own, especially when Walz turned it around to talk about trump.

    CBS is now talking about trump’s bogus fraud claims.

  62. 62.

    cain

    @West of the Rockies:

    Texas or Florida.

    I think it can happen. If we get a lock on the legislature especially in Texas – we will have a lock on the electoral college. Then it will be the GOP that will be crying about it and wanting to reform it. We should let them.

  63. 63.

    cain

    @Jay: Would be funny if the purging was mostly GOP and they fucked themselves.

    I suppose they could do purging with “if D, then..”

  64. 64.

    TBone

    @JPL: the voice overs where they just cut her off were freaking LAME.  I agree that everyone did well EXCEPT the interviewer and editors.

  65. 65.

    CHETAN R MURTHY

    @cain: I’m not saying it won’t happen, but I’ve spent a lotta time and a lot more money hoping for it, and I’m done.

  67. 67.

    cain

    @CHETAN R MURTHY:

    I think they are going to try for it. Texas isn’t a red state, it’s a non-voting state because people don’t think they can vote enough to overturn that damn legislature.

    But the anti-women laws they have been putting in are likely making life very difficult for everyone.

  69. 69.

    Gretchen

    @lamh47: Charlie Pierce calls Politico “Tiger Beat on the Potomac”. Its readers already know who they’re voting for. Call Her Daddy’s listeners may not even have decided whether to vote.

  73. 73.

    Gretchen

    @Baud: Yes, sadly you’re right about this. I really can’t vote for Walz now that I know that, even though he wants IVF to remain accessible, he didn’t use it himself and their pregnancy was only by IUI, not IVF.

  74. 74.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Gretchen: if ari wants pushback and adversarial talk, why doesn’t he go back to lawyer work?

    i need to get better at spotting where he’s dismissive. I haven’t seen him on YouTube much lately, though I do get news clips from Colbert there, any time of day.

    eta, I need to look up what intel means. Does it mean something different here in sarcasm snark world?

  75. 75.

    danielx

    Conspiracy theories abounding about Milton, surprise surprise! Honestly, if Dems had that kind of control of the weather we’d be using it to drop rocks on MAGA heads. Which would do no damage whatever other than possible headaches.

  77. 77.

    JPL

    @TBone: I do hope you give it another chance, because they held their own, and then moved on to the Arizona MAGA party and they were polite but not kind.

  78. 78.

    anitamargarita

    Just want to note that “women who don’t work during the day”  includes a large group of women who go on shift at 11 am or at 3 pm, or or who are winding down their work day at 7 am.

  79. 79.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Gretchen:

    People like Andrea Mitchell keep saying Harris needs to do “tough” interviews, but never specify exactly what they want her to be asked that isn’t being asked. 

    Sounds like Mrs. Greenspan needs specify that or STFU.

  83. 83.

    Anoniminous

    @lamh47:

    Seeing a lot of Two Minute Hate on YouTube from GOP proxies.  Mostly about Harris and the Evil Trans.

    Which would make a pretty cool name for a Prog rock band

  86. 86.

    TBone

    @JPL: I’m watching – just voicing my opinion about the framing and hearing the offensive voice of the interviewer too much when I tuned in to listen to VP Harris, not him.

    As a famous woman said recently, “Some of us do not aspire to be humble.”

  87. 87.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @TBone: locusts.

    But be sweet to the frogs… I’m sure we can think of other interesting materials to rain down on whomsoever merits it. (Got a list..)

  91. 91.

    Alice

    I think a lot of women who listen to the podcast or the clips will feel Kamala’s response to Sarah Huckabee Sanders right in their guts – “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not aspiring to be humble.”  Damn sure made me want to jump up and vote for her.

  92. 92.

    lowtechcyclist

    @sab:

    Wrong Ari. Ari Shapiro is the NPR All Thimgs Considered Ari. He’s a Yale alumn and has always been a journalist. The lawyer Ari is Ari Melber at MSNBC.

    Thanks – having not listened to NPR since the summer of 2016, I was afraid ‘Ari’ meant Ari Fleischer, Dubya’s press secretary.

  95. 95.

    frosty

    I’m listening to the podcast. “Is there any law that gave the government rights over a man’s body? “They’re wrong. I pulled a 34 in the draft lottery in 1970.​

  96. 96.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @JPL: I’d like to get tips in how to be polite, but firm as hell, and not accommodating. . Maybe I have to watch.

  97. 97.

    Chet Murthy

    @Gloria DryGarden: They’re an invasive species in Australia that have these glands on their backs that secrete a really toxic liquid that poisons any predators in Australia: so dogs can’t kill ’em. Pretty icky things.

  99. 99.

    mrmoshpotato

    @danielx:

    Honestly, if Dems had that kind of control of the weather we’d be using it to drop rocks on MAGA heads. 

    Or fixing global warming somehow.

  100. 100.

    Chet Murthy

    @TBone: hearing the offensive voice of the interviewer too much

    This is something I notice a -lot- in teevee interviewers these days: when they’re asking a question, they take too long, and the question details too much of the expected answer.  So the interviewee is often reduced to parrotting back the last bit of the question, or just “yup, that’s right.”  I find it frustrating, and it’s not just shitheads like Andrea Mitchell and Anderson Cooper, but also Rachel Maddow: it’s universal it seems like.

  102. 102.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Anoniminous: I mercilessly tell YouTube not to show me any MAGA crap, and the stuff I watch still occasionally gets political ads from Trump. I’m not sure he’s spending wisely.

    Admittedly I get about ten times as many appeals from Democrats for money.

  104. 104.

    JPL

    @Chet Murthy: MAGA talking points.   That was on display during the second half when the maga girl said there was cheating, but not her responisiblity to prove.

     

    I think that’s why I was okay with it, because both of Kamala and Tim were ready.

  105. 105.

    cain

    @Gretchen: They want someone to shout at Harris whether they ordered the code red.

    Isn’t Trump the forerunner, why aren’t they asking him any tough questions?

  108. 108.

    Jackie

    @JPL:

    Sixty Minute time

    No spoilers, please, for those of us not in the ET zone! Apparently it will air at 8:00 in every time zone.

  109. 109.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Matt McIrvin: I get trump ads too, on occasion. It doesn’t help me fall asleep, those sickening ads of his. And YouTube knows what I watch, so it’s strange.

  110. 110.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Booger: lol

    well this time I was referring to transitory ischemic attacks. I assume you saw the other thread where we noted the two meanings.

  111. 111.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @frosty: actually, if it’s a nuance, I don’t get it. That’s ok, I can ask a friend, if it’s gonna be snark aimed at me; I have other things I need to do.

  113. 113.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Another Scott: im sorry, I looked up HTH, in the urban dictionary, and it’s not helping. I hope and dread that you’re putting me in my place somehow.

    but thanks for explaining incel for me.
    I’ll ask a friend

  114. 114.

    Chet Murthy

    @Matt McIrvin: heh indeed.  I remember once somebody wrote that koala bears (which subsist almost entirely on a diet of eucalyptus leaves) are high most of the time, b/c those leaves contain a potent alkaloid which is pretty toxic to animals.  Lotta poisons are like that, I guess.

  116. 116.

    Another Scott

    @Gloria DryGarden: Sorry.

    HTH! = Hope this helps!

    But of course, like everything, it has many meanings these days.

    I like being helpful, usually.  And I was trying to be helpful in this case.  No snark intended.

    Hang in there!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  119. 119.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @KatKapCC: oh, thank you.
    the other night, a Friday a week or two ago, there was a kerfluffle, I had my character misconstrued, they used a word I didn’t know or understand, but it was pretty negative and hurtful.

    So now I’m still kind of walking on eggshells around things I don’t understand. Actually another Scott was one of two people who spoke kindly to me, and most definitely had my back. I’m quite grateful for it. I’m just jumpy.

    thanks for asking. And for explaining. Not trying to be an asshole to another Scott or anyone else who has been decent and kind around here.

  120. 120.

    Eduardo

    @Hoodie: Well, and at least one old Hispanic gay dude lol.  I loved to hear Stern and Robin on my morning commute in the early aughts.  Hated it  when he moved to satellite radio.

    I thought Robin has the most beautiful radio voice in a woman and she was so joyful.  He made me laugh, she cheered me up.  Good times.

  121. 121.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Another Scott: thank you! I can’t say how much I appreciate you having my back that other Friday. You and geminid talked me back from the edge of the ledge.
    sorry I’m so jumpy; thanks for not taking it personally.

    cheers!

  122. 122.

    Greebe

    @Anonymous At Work: @35

    ugh. Interesting seeing that from the outside. I was hit back in February. Clipped the wires to my left arm/leg but fortunately I had no cognitive damage.
    I’ve been very fortunate to have amazing support from friends and family and access to excellent therapists (ST, OT, and PT), all of which I finally graduated from only in the past couple of weeks.
    Now I need to focus on regaining a lot of muscle mass.

  123. 123.

    Greebe

    @Anonymous At Work: @35

    ugh. Interesting seeing that from the outside. I was hit back in February. Clipped the wires to my left arm/leg but fortunately I had no cognitive damage.
    I’ve been very fortunate to have amazing support from friends and family and access to excellent therapists (ST, OT, and PT), all of which I finally graduated from only in the past couple of weeks.
    Now I need to focus on regaining a lot of muscle mass.

  124. 124.

    janesays

    @Hoodie: The incels who were fans of Howard Stern of the 1980s and 90s are losing their shit on the SiriusXM tweet announcing the interview, saying he’s gone totally woke and they’ll never listen to him again. Stern has been pretty openly supporting Democrats since at least 2016, when Trump asked for his endorsement and he wouldn’t give it to him because he didn’t think Trump had any any business running for president and he (Stern) didn’t agree with any of the GOP platform. The two were on friendly terms prior to Trump running for POTUS, and I imagine they’re probably no longer speaking at this point, especially since Stern had Hillary Clinton on the show in 2019 and told her that she should be the president right now (when Trump was still soiling the White House with his odious presence), and that he was sure she would have been a terrific president.

    Howard Stern is 180° different from the person he was 25 years ago, and he’s pretty widely respected as one of the best long form interviewers in the business today. He grew up. He’s had a lot of terrific guests in the past few years.

  125. 125.

    janesays

    @lamh47: GenX incels and their children

     

    How exactly would an incel – literally a person who is involuntarily celibate – have children?

  127. 127.

    The Audacity of Krope

    @janesays: How exactly would an incel – literally a person who is involuntarily celibate – have children?

    We all go through phases in life.

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