As we told you earlier, reporters covering the campaign of Kamala Harris helped her pick out a coat and complimented the choice:
‘SERIOUSLY??’ Journos fawning over Kamala Harris trying on a jacket is ‘just embarrassing’ https://t.co/EliUMNHB82
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 16, 2019
Brit Hume called it an embarrassment:
This is just embarrassing. So now journalists are going shopping with Harris, helping pick out clothes and then putting out glowing tweets about it. https://t.co/RX2IY0B8JL
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 16, 2019
NBC News’ Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt thought she spotted a double standard, and came to the defense of the reporters helping out a Democrat presidential candidate with her clothing choices by responding to Hume this way:
Nobody seemed to have a problem when the candidate was @ScottWalker and the activity was motorcycle riding
Or @MittRomney riding jet skis on vacation
Or skeet shooting with @LindseyGrahamSC
I’m all for female candidates expanding the list of campaign activities https://t.co/KgIgxnNW5x
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 16, 2019
Hume didn’t see that as any kind of valid comparison:
Talk about missing the point. Did journalists help Walker pick out his motorcycle, then gush about it on Twitter? Did they they help Romney on with his life jacket? That Kamala Harris shopping incident wasn’t coverage, it was participation. https://t.co/tjg7OqJ7uu
— Brit Hume (@brithume) February 16, 2019
Well, there it is!
And now we know it takes a village to dress Kamala Harris!
— Deb Singer (@debsinger2) February 16, 2019
And the campaign has only just begun.