Michael Tracey isn’t a conservative, but you can be
assured he’ll be accused of being one after this piece. It’s the usual
modus operandi for the Left: if you betray the narrative, you’re with
the other side. Luckily for him, he’s never been one to follow the
leader. He was an original Russian collusion skeptic on the Left,
earning him the ire of his colleagues. He couldn’t care less. He’ll call
out his side if they’re being obnoxious. Take Kamala Harris’ Univision
town hall—would it shock you that it was chock-full of her supporters despite being branded as an ‘undecided Latino voter’ town hall event?
No, of course not.
Tracey spoke with the seat-fillers, all
self-proclaimed Kamala supporters bused in by a company that ensures
high-profile events are packed with people. Tracey tried to interview
those who asked Kamala those pre-selected questions but was blocked:
[emphasis mine]:
“I already knew I was going to go
for Kamala,” one town hall participant told me. “Part of the reason why I
wanted to go was just, like, to also fully support her.”
“So you were already decided, before you came?” I asked another. “Yes,” she replied, declaring her support for Kamala.
The
audience members I spoke to were selected with the help of a company
called FansOnQ, according to the company’s founder, Conny Quintanilla,
whose title for yesterday’s event was “Audience Manager.” The company
puts out “casting calls” for events like the Latin Grammy Awards, which
have been previously held in Las Vegas. It’s a type of company that you
might not be consciously aware exists, but once you’re told of its
existence, it makes perfect intuitive sense: people who want to dance at
award shows are “vetted” by this particular company, perhaps for good
looks and rhythmic skills. That’s the same company which filled the
seats at Kamala’s town hall.
Another person told me he was able
to attend because he “knows people” at an unnamed “progressive
organization,” which somehow granted him the ability to get in the town
hall audience. The person said he works as an intern for Rep. Steven
Horsford, Democrat of Nevada. I’m not naming the person because he was
wary of attribution. Others quoted here also didn’t want to be
identified.
These aforementioned attendees were essentially just
“seat fillers” — they were not the audience members who were called on
to ask pre-selected questions. Those audience members were flown in from
around the country at Univision’s expense. Which is a bit odd, because
there would certainly have been plenty of genuine “undecided Latino
voters” in Clark County, Nevada who I’m sure would’ve been more than
happy to ask Kamala Harris a question.
NOTE: The non-question-asking attendees were still integral to the televisual production of the event, hence their recruitment. Uninformed
viewers at home were under the false impression that the people they
were watching react to Kamala’s answers were “undecided voters,” when
numerous of them were in fact pre-committed Harris voters who sought to attend for the specific purpose of demonstrating their support for Kamala.
Naturally,
I wanted to interview the actual question-asking attendees. However, a
corporate dictate apparently came down prohibiting this. “We won’t be making them available,” Anna Negron, Director of Corporate Communications at TelevisaUnivision…
Gee, I wonder why. We made fun of the fact that a teleprompter was in
view during this event, which wouldn’t shock us since the vice
president is a disaster without a script. Supposedly, that’s been
debunked; she wasn’t using such a device for this event, but this
revelation is frankly much worse.
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