Kamala Harris Minus Her Makeup
Reflections on mendacious memes shared by morons and mountebanks
No, this is not actually a portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris sans foundation, blush, lipstick, and clothes.
The reason I teased it as such is that multiple people with whom I am friends on Facebook have posted fake images almost as glaring as this one in an attempt to smear the woman who could very well be our next President.
One such “friend,” someone I knew in high school, has posted four or five memes purporting to depict Harris palling around with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail.
One of these appears to show Harris in a bikini the the arms of a bare-chested Epstein. It’s photo-shopped or AI, her head imposed on another woman’s body. Fact-checking reveals that Harris and her husband did meet Epstein a social event in California but that they never hit the beach together, let alone snuggled up like Baywatch bunnies.
Another trick photo shows Harris and a pretty, young woman on either side of talk-show host Montel Williams. A caption suggests she was Williams’ “side chick,” insinuating that she was promiscuous. The photo is real, but Williams has gone to great lengths to clarify, that the younger woman is his daughter, Ashley.
