VP Kamala Harris and child actors/Photo courtesy of New York Post
Republicans took to Twitter to deride Vice President Kamala Harris over a NASA video in which she visited the Naval Observatory with five teenagers. Much to the chagrin of the conservative public, those teens were actors.
In the YouTube video entitled Get Curious With Vice President Harris, the second-in-command and the child actors participate in a Zoom call with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough from the International Space Station.
The teens display a somewhat exaggerated glee when Harris tells them that they are “going to learn so much” and see moon craters “with their own eyes.”
Later, Harris, who is head of the National Space Council, answers the questions they ask.
Trevor Bernadino, one of the actors in the video, spoke with his local, new station and explained that after he sent in a monologue about things that he is passionate about, his agent called him and said he had been booked for the video, reported
KSBW.“Then after that, like a week later, my agent called me and was like ‘Hey Trevor, you booked it,'” Bernardino said.
Of course, the origin story of the outrage began at Fox News studios and behind Tucker Carlson’s newsdesk as he wasted irretrievable time with Candace Owens discussing the apparent moral failure of the video.
“If you dare, look it up, watch it. Watch it again. Watch your own soul die as you do,” Carlson said. It’s the fakest thing that’s ever been caught on video.”
By Tuesday evening, 15,000 people had disliked the video. Worst of all, the critique gave Conservative Twitter, including former President Trump, to open their keyboards in public.
But we can always count on conscious conservative Ana Navarro to clap back at her own party.