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Kamala Harris roasted by The Daily Show for her 'word salad' speeches
A late night comedy show roasted Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday for her multiple viral 'word salads' during her first three years in office, joking they were the result of a special 'thought advisor' on her staff.
Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show' featured well-known viral video clips of Harris speaking in circles about the 'significance of the passage of time,' the 'need to get to go and need to be able to get where you need to go' and her comment about 'the time for us to do what we are doing and that time is every day.'
The show presented a fictional character with the name of 'Dahlia Rose Hibiscus' played by comedian Desi Lydic joking that she was the 'holistic thought advisor' behind Harris' political speeches.
The 'advisor' character said that Harris' confusing comments were 'word voyages' instead of 'sentences,' citing the vice president's viral 'coconut tree' speech as an example.
Kamala Harris featured in the Daily Show
'It’s a process I call speaking without thinking,' the 'thought advisor' character explains. 'It’s not about the destination of the thought, it’s about the journey and how many words you use to describe the journey.'
The video also features Harris during a joint press conference with Poland's President Andrzej Duda on March 10, 2022 talking about Russia's atrocities during the war in Ukraine.
'That's on top of everything else, that we know and don't know yet, based on what we've just been able to see and because we've seen it or not does not mean that it hasn't happened,' Harris said.
The 'thought advisor' jokes that she begins her jobs by cutting up the vice president's speeches drafted by her staff into individual words before rearranging them, such as her comment about 'the ability to see unburdened by what has been.'
Other Harris speeches featured in the humorous video include the vice president's comment about having the ability to 'see the moment in time in which we exist in our present and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.'
'I hear the counter-arguments all the time,' the character adds. 'People should be able to understand what their leaders are saying when they talk, but I prefer to leave Kamala’s thoughts open to interpretation like a work of modern art that you look at and go, ‘I wonder what that was all about.'
Harris earned mockery for her so-called 'word salads' during her first three years as vice president as even her allies admitted she struggled with her rhetoric.
'It is true that she often burdens her sentences with more dependent clauses than they can bear, and verbatim transcripts of her extemporaneous remarks can sometimes be hard to follow,' Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson wrote in April 2023.
As President Joe Biden and Harris are increasing their activity on the campaign trail the vice president has tightened up her speeches, staying carefully within her prepared themes on important campaign issues.
But during an Washington, DC, event with Asian Americans with comedian Jimmy O. Yang, Harris employed the 'f-bomb' to emphasize a point she was making about seizing opportunities.
'Sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open, and sometimes they won’t— and then you need to kick that f***ing door down,' Harris said.
The White House excused the comment, noting that the vice president was 'passionate' about the issue.
'I think it's important to have someone who's passionate about what they are speaking about,' White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said to reporters. 'I could not be more proud to have her as someone I look up to as vice president and I think that many people here would say the same.'