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Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new memoir pulls back the curtain on a private moment in the White House that should never have been fodder for a book tour. Harris writes that while sitting with President Biden in the Situation Room he asked her, if he had to drop out, whether she’d be willing to take his spot — a startling admission that the president had apparently rehearsed the line and treated a crisis briefing like a campaign contingency.
On Monday’s Greg Kelly Reports, Greg Kelly did what real journalists do: he called out the theater for what it is and tore into the Democrats’ post-game spin. Kelly highlighted the raw political calculation in Harris’s account and slammed the media’s reflex to treat her revelations as quaint inside baseball rather than evidence of reckless leadership.
Let’s be blunt: this isn’t introspection, it’s a political smoke screen. Harris’s effort to recast Biden’s disastrous decision to run again as “recklessness” by everyone else conveniently rewrites her own role and responsibility in that chaotic year, while seeking sympathy from a press corps that loves her spin.
There’s also a serious national security smell here. The Situation Room is not a prop for memoirists, and the casualization of that space — turning confidential briefings into campaign anecdotes — is a slap in the face to officers who expect discretion and to Americans who expect steady leadership. Recounting rehearsed presidential lines from a secure setting reveals either terrible judgment or a cynical calculation that politics trumps protocol.
Meanwhile, the mainstream press will pat Harris on the head and call it courage while downplaying the chaos she admits to living through. Greg Kelly rightly pointed out the double standard: when conservative leaders or Republicans show cracks, the media howls; when Democrats do it, they write a profile and hand out absolution. That bias is not subtle and it’s corrosive to public trust.
Make no mistake — this book is also a political maneuver. Harris is carefully distancing herself from Biden, reshaping the narrative, and testing a comeback playbook while blaming everyone else for the disaster that cost Democrats the White House. Americans deserve accountability, not a tidy memoir that launders responsibility and tries to keep career politicians relevant.
Thank goodness there are voices like Greg Kelly willing to call out the spectacle and remind hardworking Americans that leadership means standing up for the job, not staging it for a someday-promotional tour. If Washington won’t police itself, the voters must — and conservatives will keep pushing until the political class learns that private briefings are for the nation’s security, not campaign narratives.
