Members of the press have responded poorly to the second night of the 2020 Republican National Convention, which featured addresses from first lady Melania Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Covington Catholic graduate Nick Sandmann. The second night of the convention also featured a presidential pardon and a naturalization ceremony.
It is still happening, by the way, the angry and indignant analyses. They started during the second night of the convention and have continued all the way into Wednesday afternoon.
Melania Trump, for example, inspired in Playboy White House correspondent Brian Karem deep feelings of anger and discomfort.
“Makes me want to vomit,” he remarked during her speech.
His comment came in response specifically to alleged comedian and “resistance” weirdo Kathy Griffin’s particularly angry analysis of the first lady’s speech, which read simply, “Seriously, f— this bitch.”
Elsewhere, during an address by Nick Sandmann, reporters and pundits reminded everyone that the press’s irrational, blind hatred for the Kentucky resident is what allowed for the Covington misreporting fiasco to happen in the first place.
“I’m watching tonight because it’s important. But i don’t have to watch this snot nose entitled kid from Kentucky,” said CNN analyst and former Clinton White House flunky Joe Lockhart.
AJ+ staffer Dena Takruri added elsewhere, “That smug privileged teenage boy who wore a MAGA hat while he mocked an Indigenous man in front of the Lincoln Memorial a few years ago is speaking at the RNC. His name is Nicholas Sandmann and I don’t give a flying f*** about hearing ‘his side of the story.’”
“Of course, they trotted out snotty, grievance poster child Nicholas Sandmann,” said HuffPost contributor Bryan Behar.
At the New York Times, which reads more these days like Salon or some other left-wing blog than a serious, established media operation, columnist Thomas Edsall declared Wednesday, “The frank racism of the contemporary Republican agenda is on display at the R.N.C.”
New York Times columnist Frank Bruni groused elsewhere that it seems as if the convention organizers have taken their cues from infamous Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
At the Washington Post, columnist Jonathan Capehart very predictably argued Wednesday that the convention poses the following question: “Trump’s choice for America: Democracy or white supremacy?”
Along with being irrationally angry about the speakers, some in the press also have been very busy lobbing allegations of corruption and impropriety at the White House for the presidential pardon and naturalization ceremonies.
Over at NBC News, for example, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell alleged that Pompeo’s convention address was “unprecedented” because “there is a law against federal employees doing politics on the job.”
Are we using different definitions of the word “unprecedented” or does Mitchell simply not remember the 2012 Democratic National Convention? Back then, Democratic convention attendees heard from Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, and Karen Mills, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, which, as National Review’s Jim Geraghty notes, “was elevated to Cabinet-level in the Obama years.”
“Unprecedented” indeed.
At MSNBC, prime-time host and conspiracy theory enthusiast Joy Reid was beside herself with anger over the naturalization ceremony featured during the Republican National Convention.
“He uses those people as props,” she said of the new American citizens. “He used people that would be from the s-hole countries he would not let into this country.”
At the Washington Post, columnist Jennifer Rubin, who is prone to taking the dumbest, most asinine things she reads on Twitter and turning them into full-blown articles, declared Wednesday in a headline, “The RNC is on a Hatch Act crime spree.”
And so on.
Get ready for night three of the convention, where I am sure the media analyses only get better.
