Kamala Harris escapes from Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump rails against Fox News and a much-threatened media sticks to seven swing states. The endgame is here
US vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and US actor and comedian Maya Rudolph in a Saturday Night Live sketch that aired at the weekend. Photograph: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Imagescampaign about how the media is faring, and how it might fare in its torturous aftermath. “Keep calm-ala and carry on-ala?” If only, Saturday Night Live, if only.
This was the election of self-sabotaging newspaper non-endorsements. Endorsements are much better thought of as brand reaffirmations than bids to sway the masses. As such, the blocking of planned Harris endorsements by the billionaire owners of the LA Times and Washington Post proved damaging to both titles, but the Post — the one with “Democracy Dies in Darkness” as its slogan — suffered most.
It’s partly a function of format. Clipped up into catchphrases and punchlines for short reports, Trump sounds the same as he always did. Uncut he sounds more unhinged than ever.With the caveat that all the drama — or drama-la, as Saturday Night Live would say — will still unfold on the big US news television networks, this has been the podcast election, and not just because Anthony Scaramucci has been such value-for-money on Goalhanger’s The Rest is Politics: US.
Less risky was Harris’s sit-down interview with Fox News in which she had the chance to advance the un-Fox-like view that Trump is unfit to serve. So, how is Trump getting along with Fox News these days? ABC? “They ought to take away their licence,” he insisted after he was fact-checked. MSNBC and NBC News? Well, he’s attacked its owner, Comcast, on several occasions in the past, at one point railing that it should be investigated for treason.
As for CNN, one of his original “fake news” targets, Trump has been repeatedly referring to its gay anchor Anderson Cooper as “Allison Cooper”. In his head, there is no insult worse than calling a man by a woman’s name.
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