Dear Politico: Stop. Please. Just Stop.
It’s nice to know that you can always count on Politico for a spectacularly stupid and highly hypocritical take on the the day’s “news.”
I put news in quotes because a lot of what they cover is as far from news as Neptune is from Earth. Gossip, yes. Innuendo, sure. Bullshit, absolutely. But news? Not so much.
Case in point: Politico’s West Wing Playbook newsletter recently ran a piece on Vice President Kamala Harris (one of many, I might add. They seem to be obsessed with her.) that pointed out her aversion to using wireless earbuds. Yes, that’s right. Kamala Harris prefers to rock it old school by going wired.
Oh! My! God!
Doesn’t she know it’s the 21st Century? Doesn’t she know that wired headphones are not a “thing” anymore?
And Politico makes sure we know why:
“While a growing number of consumers are going wireless, the vice president is sticking with the classics. She has long felt that Bluetooth headphones are a security risk. As a result, Harris insists on using wired headphones,” three former campaign aides told West Wing Playbook.
I guess they had to go to “former campaign aides” for the story because current staff think this is supremely stupid and wanted to have nothing to do with it.
Politico cites examples of VP Harris going wired, such as on election night when she called to congratulate President Joe Biden on winning and can be seen “holding a tangle of wires” from her headphones. Gasp!
Or the time she did a Zoom interview with MSNBC and she was using wired earbuds. My God! Think of the children!
They’d also like us to know that Harris’s husband has no such qualms about using wireless earbuds. He’s not afraid of Bluetooth like the Vice President is!
He’s also not an elected official with access to classified information, so his security concerns are a bit different than his wife’s.
The newsletter rightly points out that VP Harris is concerned about the security of wireless earbuds, that’s why she prefers to go wired. But it apparently thinks she’s being silly. And while wired earbuds are “hip” Vice President Harris isn’t.
“While wired headphones have re-emerged as a hip vintage accessory among Gen Z, Harris’ embrace of them is less about fashion than caution. Former aides say that the vice president has long been careful about security and technology — with some describing it as prudent and others suggesting it’s a bit paranoid,” West Wing Playbook notes.
They asked the White House for comment or any “fun origin story” relating to the Vice President’s use of wired earbuds, but they’re still waiting.
I guess the White House thinks Politico isn’t worth their time, especially when they write garbage like this.
So Vice President Harris’s security concerns are a bit overblown? But are they really?
This is the same publication that spent the end of 2015 and most of 2016 complaining about Hillary Clinton’s email server and fretting about the security concerns they thought it raised.
Then, it was the end of the world. Because of Hillary’s emails, the Russians were about to show up on our shores and convert everyone to Communism. Now, the Vice President is way too worried about security and acting like an old person.
Embrace the Bluetooth Kamala! Join the revolution!
Politico, thy name is Hypocrite.