The Choice 2024: Tal Kopan (interview) | FRONTLINE

Tal Kopan was co-host of the San Francisco Chronicle’s 2020 podcast Chronicled: Who is Kamala Harris? Kopan is currently the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe.

The following interview was conducted by the Kirk Documentary Group’s Mike Wiser for FRONTLINE on August 7, 2024. It has been edited for clarity and length.

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[detectiveofmoneypolitics]

Detective of Money Politics is following this very informative content cheers from VK3GFS and 73s from Frank Melbourne Australia

[MarcelinetheVampy]

Can we go back to the part about quantum computing?? I’d like to know about Kamala’s interest here! Give the people what they want!

[kentuky]

I can't trust an adult who speaks with fry voice and uptalk intonation at the end of every sentence? It's not professional?

[markthesing]

Definitely not journalism. One victim cliche to the next victim cliche.

[AbbieHoffmansGhost]

I loved this interview but have to take issue with Tal's summary at the end. I don't see it as a two issue election, that's so Washington and the two party system. We now have things like the Supreme Court and its imperative in keeping a democracy or allowing an authoritarian to rule. We have huge differences on taxation and trade. We have a situation with accepting agression by foreign actors and the tinder box increasing in the Middle East. We have efforts to combat misinformation/disinformation coming into sharp focus and the fight against those bad actors that may go against the grain of freedom of speech. This is an extreme time where nuance and diplomacy in a leader as opposed to slinging from the hip and 'feels' can and most likely will be world shattering or at least have that potential.

[Ric_Cruz]

Geez 8 Libs how many women are you going to interview in favor of Kamala.

A mix would have been much more meaningful

[thomassenbart]

She is someone who slept her way to the top of Cali politics and then failed miserably in her attempt at becoming Pres., gaining less than 1% of the vote in the Demo primaries. She is an incoherent, markedly uncharismatic, power hungry, non-competent ideologue.

The Fweedom quote is plagiarized from MLK. Andray Domise, a contributing editor of the Canadian publication Maclean's, noted that Harris' story resembled one told by King in a 1965 interview published in Playboy.

"I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a White policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother, " King said at the time. "'What do you want?' the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked at him straight in the eye and answered, 'Fee-dom.' She couldn't even pronounce it, but she knew. It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me."

[vmark]

She did not talk about her diminished mental acuity. It appears that she was sharper when she was a low-level District Attorney and it appears that as she has risen through the various political positions she's held she has gotten dumber. And I don't mean to be demeaning however when she speaks how she answers questions posed to her makes her look inauthentic and unrelatable and she seems to get stuck in this loop of using the same word over and over again and she starts her word-salad responses.