The end of a Democrat convention really draws out proclamations of Historic Possibilities, and Rachel Maddow, Jake Tapper, and Stephen Colbert stood out in the gushfest. After Kamala Harris spoke, Maddow insisted you would remember where you were during this speech, at an “inflection point in history.”
Tapper insisted it might be the most historic speech ever, and Colbert described it as “everything we’ve been waiting for all week!”
It’s quite a contrast with how all the anchors summarized Donald Trump’s acceptance speech. In Milwaukee, PBS uncorked negativity right after the speech. Amna Nawaz said the speech “veered into themes of grievance and politics and partisan issues of the past.” Co-anchor Geoff Bennett added: “The initial calls for unity quickly gave way to attacks on Democrats, to a litany of falsehoods, to a string of insults.” But for Harris, Nawaz oozed she was “Speaking before a packed arena who hung on her every word and making history,” and Bennett noted Harris and her running mate Tim Walz received “rapturous applause” from their fellow Democrats.
At least CNN’s Scott Jennings had this message: “All the Harris pablum and platitudes aside, you can’t leave the same people in charge who’ve run the country into the ditch.”
On Friday morning, ABC reporter Jonathan Karl proclaimed: “This is a Kamala Harris that sounded a little bit more like Maggie Thatcher or Ronald Reagan, especially on national security, than like Bernie Sanders.” CNN analyst Elliott Williams heard Harris’s speech and announced “that’s Margaret Thatcher, dude!” No one should be comparing radical Kamala to Reagan and Thatcher!
The so-called “independent fact-checkers” are still aligning with the Democrats. CNN’s Daniel Dale could only throw “missing context” flags at the Harris speech. Blatant falsehoods were painted as “cleverly framed” arguments. PolitiFact is on a roll against Trump, with four “Pants on Fire” attacks in the last two weeks. He’s up to 197 “fiery pants” rants.
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