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As if Old Joe Biden’s angry, fact-free rants weren’t exciting enough in themselves, viewers of the State of the Union address were treated to the extra added and delightfully soap-opera-ish attraction of First Lady Jill Biden planting a big smooch on the waiting lips of Second Guy Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris. As Matt Margolis noted Wednesday, The Kiss “raised a lot of eyebrows and initiated some gag reflexes,” so it came as no surprise that the alleged vice president herself was asked about it. Harris, however, made no attempt to stop all the whispering and quickly changed the subject, which just raises even more eyebrows.
At the end of an interview with Harris, Univision’s Edwin Pitti addressed her Bidenishly as “Madam President” and continued: “I have to ask you about something else with regard to yesterday’s State of the Union address: there is a viral video online from the moment when your husband received a kiss from the First Lady upon her arrival at the [House] Chamber.” Through all this Harris had a politician’s smile firmly plastered on her face, as if Pitti was letting her in on a terrific joke.
Pitti continued: “What is your reaction to the video, which many say they have to gossip about?” Harris affected an attitude of indifference regarding the whole affair, saying: “No, I haven’t watched the video. I don’t know, but I do know that the First Lady and the Second Gentleman are working arduously with what we are doing with my husband against antisemitism — very important. He was just in Poland, in Krakow, and was visiting Auschwitz to visit – what we need to do in order to fight against hate — he fights against antisemitism but also against hatred towards immigrants, and sadly, we’ve seen that in our country. But the First Lady and the Second Gentleman are truly, truly concerned for many people that are overlooked and underrepresented.” Gee, that’s swell, but what did it have to do with Pitti’s question?
Absolutely nothing, of course, and that only led to more questions. Why didn’t Harris simply say that The Kiss was of no significance? Maybe Emhoff was aiming for a kiss on the cheek and ‘Doctor’ Jill was moving too fast. This kind of thing can happen. Harris could have dismissed The Kiss in a hundred ways, but instead, her odd and abrupt subject change only keeps the gossip mill humming.
There are more oddities to this whole business as well. There was a strange suggestion of some distance between Harris and Emhoff back in May 2021; Newsweek reported that Harris “gave her husband Doug Emhoff a goodbye kiss on Wednesday, and video of the moment soon lit up social media with reactions. What had everyone talking is the fact that the two kissed while wearing masks, despite both are [sic] fully vaccinated.”
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