JD FOSTER: Harris Charges Harris, Among Others, With ‘Recklessness’

You knew it had to happen, but former Vice-President Kamala Harris came out with her book. Why, only God and her financial advisor can say. If it was to whitewash her cackling history of bad judgment, then the book at least continues a pattern.

Yet in her book she does say one thing of great importance and with which nearly all Americans regardless of political persuasion can agree. “Recklessness” allowed Joe Biden to make the decision to run for re-election. It was reckless for the Democrats and reckless for the country in the event this enfeebled old guy won.

But allowed to run he was, for a long time. Harris’ observing this almost eludes the critical question – allowed by whom? Almost.

For starters, Harris was guilty of recklessness. She knew Biden’s true state, that he wasn’t fit to be president let alone to be re-elected same.

One could say in her defense that she was trapped by her position. She agreed to join Team Biden when she became his running mate in 2020, and loyalty has its price.

Yet, she also took an oath, and she wanted to be president. Her oath and her desire demanded she speak up, to Biden and the White House cabal and, if necessary, publicly. She recklessly ducked, confirming she should never be president.

But she wasn’t alone. The legacy media were willing participants in recklessness. Many knew. All should have known and should have spoken out. Few did.

After the fact, the legacy media’s reckless enabler-in-chief, Jake Tapper, felt so exposed he wrote a book offering up his own gallon of whitewash. Yet we see Tapper and his side-kick Dana Bash among others still appearing regularly on CNN, confirming that CNN’s few viewers aren’t liberals or conservatives but self-select as among those who prefer to be misinformed.

Few members of Congress had any personal contact with Biden in his later years as his staff kept him mostly safely cocooned. Their guilt at embracing the recklessness is limited, but so, too, is their absolution as even they could see the many occasions when Biden embarrassed himself and the nation publicly, mouth agape, staring into the distance, or wandering off.