Politico is facing leftist vitriol for committing the cardinal sin of publishing an honest headline about Vice President Kamala Harris.

During the VP’s word-salad CNN interview this week, interviewer Dana Bash asked her to respond to former President Donald Trump’s complaint that, after years of only highlighting/celebrating her Indian ancestry, Harris is now embracing her black ancestry for votes.

It’s the same point made by Vivek Ramaswamy, who too is Indian, and who earlier this month noted that Harris “leaned into” her Indian ancestry “when it was convenient” but is now leading out of it.

The wider point is that it wasn’t just Trump raising questions about Harris’ chameleonic ancestry, because, despite insistences otherwise from the left, the question about her ancestry is a legitimate one.

But that, of course, is not how Harris perceived it. Asked about these concerns on Thursday, she replied by just dismissing/evading them.

Listen:

“Same old, tired playbook,” she said. “Next question, please.”

And so when Politico, to its credit, decided to publish a story about her dismissing the question, it rightly titled the story as follows: “‘Next question’: Harris evades questions about her identity.”

Fact-check: TRUE!

And BOOM, just like that, the radicalized left snapped like a twig because how dare the corporate propaganda press ever, ever, ever, ever do its actual job and portray a dear Democrat accurately and factually.

Look at some of the backlash below:

I will not continue to follow @politico – you are not reporting the news in an unbiased manner.
You must have learned how tomanipulate the news from FOX or directly from Trump and friends.https://t.co/WH1r8DzqFl

— James Michael ☘️ A New Way Forward! (@J0396195894841) August 31, 2024

One of the worst headlines written in a long time, and that’s saying a lot, given the intense competition. Anyone at Politico involved in this headline should reconsider their future in journalism.

Beyond bad: https://t.co/zjYBh157pT

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 30, 2024

Throw “Politico” into the River Styx, please.

This is easily the most bad faith, disgusting, dishonest headline I have seen in years.

I realize you sacks of shit have a CEO who literally asked people to “pray” for Trump’s victory but this is atrocious. https://t.co/zEDW8Es6q2

— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) August 30, 2024

I had to type delete and retype twice on this one. Such a horrible headline and, frankly, we need to talk about how we address the racism and sexism women of color face and stop making it a debate about how women of color behave when they try to be seen as leaders! https://t.co/BtTu1X7eBF

— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) August 30, 2024

Omg. When someone showed this to me I wasn’t sure if it was real. “Evades questions about her identity?” What? This was refusing to dignify Trumps racist attack abt her ‘turning Black’. Whats wrong w you, @politico? I think you need to address your identity as journalists. https://t.co/LDh2GtHdFw

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 30, 2024

It’s instructive how an incredible number of the complaints came from fellow corporate propaganda media partisans like Josh Marshall and Mehdi Hasan, both of whom purport to also be “journalists.”

Mediaite, essentially a propaganda outlet for the Democrats, also cried foul over Politico’s accurate reporting. In its write-up, it defended Harris’ evasion as follows: “In other words, as much as Trump has been trying to goad her, the vice president did not take the bait.”

That’s certainly one extremely biased way of looking at it.

As noted earlier, Ramaswamy, also an Indian, has raised concerns about Harris’ exploitation of her multiple identities.

Appearing on Fox News around the start of the month, Ramaswamy noted that when Harris had risen to power in California, she’d done so by stressing her Indian ancestry. But now that she’s running for president, she’s leaning entirely into her black side.

“She leaned into it when she ran for office in California, big Asian American and Indian-American population,” he said. “So she wore that when it was convenient. She is wearing a different identity now when it’s politically convenient on a national stage.”

And that’s just plain offensive to Indians.

“On a very personal level, my parents were immigrants to this country, legal immigrants from southern India — the very same part of India that her mother also emigrated from,” Ramaswamy said.

“I think it’s a hard fact, whether you like it or not, that many Indian Americans in the United States are indeed somewhat offended by the way Kamala has suddenly cast aside the Indian-American side of her identity,” he added.

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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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