Fox “straight news” anchors attacked VP Kamala Harris for buying cookware ahead of Thanksgiving
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In one of the dumbest right-wing media news cycles in recent years (and that is saying something), right-wing figures spent recent days attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for purchasing cookware during a diplomatic trip to Paris. The story even lept to “straight news” anchors at Fox.
Citation From the November 26, 2021, edition of Fox News’ America’s Newsroom
JULIE BANDERAS (GUEST CO-ANCHOR): Vice President Harris taking heat in some quarters for spending more than $500 on cookware during her recent Paris trip, while Americans struggle with rising inflation and economic uncertainty. Well, among the VP's purchases, a $375 serving dish, and a frying pan that costs around $160. I do not cook. I don't know about you, Benjamin, so I make no sense of spending money on cookware. But again, I don't cook, so I'm not really an expert on this. How about yourself?
BENJAMIN HALL (GUEST CO-ANCHOR): That's a lot of money, that’s a lot of money—
BANDERAS: Is it?
HALL: For a pot, and I think if she is going to buy a pot that expensive, maybe buy it in America rather than in France. Spend the money over here.
BANDERAS: That’s true, yeah. I don’t know, I have no reason to buy cookware. But I suppose I would probably spend that money on something else like, I don’t know, wine.
HALL: Who does the cooking?
BANDERAS: Not me. My husband does all the cooking, or my mother — just anyone else but me. All right, moving on.