Tea at Trianon: Vice President Kamala Harris Grilled on Pivotal Issues

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris Grilled on Pivotal Issues

I hate to see anyone as out of their depth as Kamala is; the puppet masters are cruel and merciless even to their own. Brett was a perfect gentleman.

From Bo Snerdley:

Fox News anchor Bret Baier pulled back the curtain on his interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, revealing how every effort was made to keep her appearance as short as possible.

The host of “Special Report” discussed the disastrous interview later with his colleagues, exposing the Harris team’s efforts to keep the sit-down short and how the contentious segment was cut off early.

“We were supposed to start at 5 P.M. and we — this was the time they gave us,” he said during the post-interview analysis.

“Originally we were going to do 25 or 30 minutes. They came in and said maybe 20. So it was already getting whittled down,” Baier continued. “And then the vice president showed up about 5:15. We were pushing the envelope to be able to turn it around” in time for the scheduled airing.” (Read more.)