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The sad news came on Friday: after just a few months on the job, alleged Vice President Kamala Harris’ director of speechwriting, Meghan Groob, is quitting. Groob has only been on the job since April; her predecessor, Kate Childs Graham, quit in February. The strangest part of this story, however, is not the continuing revolving door in Harris’ office; it’s the fact that the notoriously tongue-tied vice president had a “director of speechwriting” in the first place. You mean somebody actually writes Harris’ famous word salads?
Harris’ public statements leave us with two unpalatable choices: either the putative vice president has an unfortunate penchant for venturing off script and into incoherence, or Groob is the most spectacularly incompetent speechwriter in the history of the known universe. Imagine being the composer of this Harris pronouncement on inflation: “Well, first of all, I acknowledge one must acknowledge, um, that prices are going up. And that people are working hard. And in many cases are worried about whether they can get through the end of the month and make it all work.” Or these pearls of wisdom about skyrocketing inflation rates: “Prices have gone up. And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, that gas costs more.”
Did a speechwriter give Harris this to say last January about the Biden administration’s approach to the COVID hysteria? “It is time for us to do what we have been doing. And that time is every day. Every day it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.” Yes, she really said that.
There are so many more. Harris said this of the Russian invasion of Ukraine: “So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically, that’s wrong.” Harris also said this, but about what is still unclear: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time … there is such great significance to the passage of time.”
Some of these date from before Groob took the job, and to be sure, it’s unlikely they are the work of Harris’ speechwriting team. After all, Groob has an impeccable Leftist elite pedigree: according to Politico, before joining the Harris team, Groob “had previously worked as a speechwriter for Bill Gates and as an editorial director at Gates Ventures.” Whatever can be said about him, Gates is not noted for mangling the English language or uttering portentous inanities, so it’s unlikely that Harris’ notorious ramblings are Groob’s fault. It’s more likely that after a steady diet of Harris’ word salads, Groob quit Harris’ staff in sheer frustration.
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Mateen says
The VP is the master of kamalapropism!
Thinker1 says
A salad spinner.
mortimer says
You mean Kammy’s word salads were actually WRITTEN by someone?
Apparently, she NEVER listens to her staff and she NEVER reads the careful preparatory notes they write for her. She goes into important events COLD with any preparation whatsoever.
I would quit a boss like that too.
David M says
Leaked script from Kamala’s speechwriter to Kamala: “Cackle…. incoherent jibber….cackle again…incoherent jibber…cackle again. Rinse & repeat.”
Check Burry says
Seems to me she would make a great Primary School pupil, not sure which GRADE IN THE US system that puts her in, 5 to 10 maybe, on a good day.
Phil Copson says
Kama-Lala-Land Harris may just have made an important contribution to the English language:
“Groober”: Noun – Person who habitually makes senseless public statements that inspire worldwide mockery and derision, eg “I don’t know why, but I’m just so excited by those moon-craters”.
Verb – To “Groob” , eg “I’m sorry – I made a Groob.” / “Oops – I just Groobed again!”
mortimer says
You should be writing their speeches.
kepha says
Veep Harris’ speechwriters have not served her well. Everything she says is an incomprehensible, incoherent, embarrassing word salad. Maybe they quit after being told they’d be fired if they didn’t quit.
In any case, Veep Harris is an embarrassment to the nation. It is an utter disgrace that this organizer of bail and support for looters and arsonists–included those who burnt out the sweat equity of many hard-working families–should serve the public in any capacity other than part of a chain gang.
Further, she is NOT the first person of known non-European descent in her office. That honor goes to Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw (Kansa) tribe who served as Hoover’s Veep after serving s Senator from Kansas.
Don McKellar says
HAHA! Well, to be fair to her speech writer, the word salads come every time she is asked non-prepped question and doesn’t have a prompter in front of her. Likely she was blaming the speech writer for that… somehow… so they walked.
You want word salads? Just wait until His Fraudulency gets yanked off the stage and the Hyena Lady takes front and center! It’s going to be the world’s biggest, ugliest buffet!
somehistory says
Can’t imagine even taking the position of working for this foul idiot. Most likely, she didn’t stay on script as that would mean subjecting herself to another person’s words, admitting she needs the help
After all, she’s the first female vp and a female of color and all that more important stuff; so much more important stuff than actually knowing how to do a job or even intelligently talking about doing the job.
what harris needs are good directions to the door that reads “exit,” and then someone who knows how to write a letter that says, “mr. resident, I resign from being your pretend vp.”
She could probably find more suitable work…like recording a witch cackle for a michael moore movie.
CogitoErgoSum says
Zing! ?
somehistory says
thank you, CES
Walter Sieruk says
Kamala Harris has exposed herself as an “airhead” by the many senseless unintelligent and outright stupid things she says.
Now she is attempting to shift the blame for her stupid statements .on her speechwriter. What gall !
VP Harris is talking example of the truth written down by the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu, who had written “Those who know do not speak. Those who do not know speak.”
That idiot women is also an example of Abraham Lincoln’s wise words when he said “It’s better to remain silent and be though a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.”
Keith O says
Huh, never knew the drivel that came out of camel toe’s mouth was the result of a speech writer, I thouht it was all her own work.
Maybe she’s been hanging around dementia Joe way too long and she is going out in sympathy with him.
tim gallagher says
I imagine that the speechwriter may have even written some decent content but Harris simply ploughed on with her own foolishness and ignored the speechwriter’s words. I can’t figure out why Harris, since she had some kind of high up job in legal circles, is not far more articulate. Biden is terrible, but Harris would be such an embarrassment if she ever became President. She often sounds as if she is talking about things on a level that she thinks would suit an audience of 8 year olds. Maybe the video clips I see here in Australia are not representative and are chosen to show her speaking foolishly, but they are cringeworthy.
somehistory says
I have yet to hear her say anything that wasn’t as Mr. Spencer demonstrated with the few he presented as evidence. In a Court of Law, if she had been charged with a crime of being a fraud, and these clips were presented as evidence, any more would be viewed by the Court as excessive and an attempt to sway the jury. However, they are not all of the times she has said stupid…beyond reasonable and belief…speeches. And after most of them, she laughs as if to say, “I’m so clever; don’t you agree?”
We here in the U.S. cringe too, tim. She’s unworthy of any other, except derision.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, somehistory. Yes, I have only seen little bits of speeches. In the most recent one she was talking in the most simplistic way about how people have to go to work and get back again or something. The commentators on Sky News were laughing at it, and I guess everyone watching it was, because it really was as if she was aiming her manner of speaking at a bunch of primary school children. The laugh, or cackle, is weird. I wonder if it is maybe a nervous laugh. Maybe she knows she is in a job she can’t do. It is beyond her. She’s way out of her depth.
James Lincoln says
A very accurate analysis, tim.
This is what happens when someone is selected solely on the basis of identity politics.
tim gallagher says
I agree, James. It is definitely what happens when people are not selected purely on ability, but rather for the boxes that they tick on the identity politics criteria. WE have some completely hopeless fools in our Parliament here in Australia who got there on the same types of criteria. Harris is embarrassing to watch. It is almost like watching a comedian playing the part of a really dopey politician.
Kepha says
Veep Harris, who works for Slow Joe,
Is also called Miz Kameltoe.
She comes out with a speech
That makes us all screech,
Less eloquent than a dead crow.
OLD GUY says
Kamala is just a good look at our education system. We all know the stories about school athletes who get pushed through the system go to play college sports and into the pros. who almost can’t write their own name. Well Kamala is the gender, race equvilent .
Kepha says
I wish Kamala would just go.
She’s almost as bad as Slow Joe.
Her screeches and cackles
Raise all of our hackles,
And ruins our government’s show!