Dear media: Please stop trying to coconut-pill me

Thanks to the legacy media, we know Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz likes to wear camo baseball caps . We know Vice President Kamala Harris likes to laugh and that both she and the Minnesota governor like food. We know Harris is “brat” and that Walz has “Midwestern princess” energy. Most importantly, we know the Democratic nominees are bringing good vibes back.

But what, you might ask, do we know of Harris’s vision for the country? Which policies does she plan to implement if elected? No one seems to know, including Harris’s own campaign.

But at least we know Walz loves the all-you-can-drink milk booth at the Minnesota State Fair.

The fact that Harris and Walz haven’t been made to answer any substantive questions about their campaign is an indictment of the legacy media. To this day, the vice president has not held a press conference or sat down for a lengthy media interview. And why would she? Harris is just playing good politics: She will ride out this honeymoon period as long as the media will let her, in the hopes of avoiding tough questions about her past support for leftist policies and her role in the cover-up of President Joe Biden’s mental decline.

Harris and Walz know, as do the media, that closer scrutiny of her record and political talent will cause her campaign to combust. That’s exactly what happened in 2020, when she started to gain ground in the Democratic presidential primary only to crater and drop out before the Iowa caucuses.

So instead of asking Harris why she’s flip-flopped on just about every policy position she once held, the Associated Press is writing about her “joy.” Instead of asking her why she, as the sitting vice president, has not already taken action to address people’s economic concerns, the New York Times is bragging about being “coconut-pilled.” Time magazine even published a glowing cover story about her without requiring a single comment from her campaign.

This deliberate shielding has already helped Harris in the polls, but at a certain point, people are going to grow tired of this revised basement strategy. It's exhausting. Just this week, for example, late-night host Stephen Colbert’s audience burst out laughing when he tried to describe CNN as “objective.”

“I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is," he began to say to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins before the crowd’s laughter cut him off.

"Was that supposed to be a laugh line?" Collins asked.

"It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is," Colbert said.

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Of course it is. The idea that CNN, which has spent the better part of the past eight years fearmongering about former President Donald Trump, and which pretended to know nothing about Biden’s obviously diminished mental capacity until it was clear he would lose to Trump, will now hold Harris’s feet to the fire is absurd.

But voters will. And come November, we might very well see a repeat of 2016, when the legacy media discover the hype they’ve created for Harris had the opposite of its intended effect.