Aidan McLaughlin, editor-in-chief of left-leaning news outlet Mediaite, has much to talk about with Politico’s Eugene Daniels on this weekend’s Press Club podcast. Daniels, co-author of Politico’s Playbook and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, dishes on the “insane” “excitement” over Vice President Kamala Harris’ emergence as the Democrats’ presumed presidential candidate after old, lonesome Joe Biden bailed out of the race like George Washington (at least according to the corporate media rewriters of history).
“Daniels also spoke about Harris’ veepstakes, the DNC’s virtual roll call, and the difficulties of separating Harris’ run from Biden’s record while she still serves as his vice president,” according to a Friday Mediaite story promoting the podcast.
What McLaughlin curiously didn’t get around to, according to the podcast’s transcript, is why the esteemed president of the White House Correspondents’ Association falsely accused Brian Kilmeade of “Fox & Friends” of a racist remark. Daniels’ race-baiting post on X, after all, helped the atrocious accusation go viral.
‘Ridiculous’
Daniels and others accused Kilmeade of being a racist after he criticized Harris for skipping a speech before Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to campaign at a “college” sorority in Indianapolis. Daniels, and others, claimed they heard Kilmeade say “colored” sorority. They heard wrong, as anyone who actually listened to the clip will attest. That long list includes black radio host Charlamagne the God.
“He said ‘college’!” Charlamagne told his audience on his nationally syndicated show “The Breakfast Club,” calling the manufactured outrage “ridiculous.”
Daniels repeated a
