RNC Wednesday!
Sep 4th, 2008 by Micah Tillman | 3 Comments |
(Like “Twin-Spin Tuesdays” (WJTL?) or “Double-Shot Tuesdays” (WMMR?) or “Comedy Done Right Thursdays” (NBC?) . . . . )
I’ve never experienced anything like last night’s episode of the RNC.
I’m still working it out.
I hope Jim Geraghty will forgive me for stealing his post, but it expresses pretty perfectly what I think happened.
The post was titled: “Wow, Wow, a Thousand Times Wow”
“What did we see tonight?” Geraghty begins. And the kind of gushing-of-words which the long paragraph that follows conveys is perfect:
Tonight, we either saw a watershed in American politics, a tour de force, the most striking and graceful debut in our nation’s political life, and a national introduction that makes Barack Obama’s 2004 convention address look like small potatoes… or we saw what we wanted to see, and the country’s persuadable independents saw something else. I’m afraid to believe. If I’m wrong, I don’t really know what Americans want. I know conservatives are thrilled to pieces, and they ought to be. She knocked it out of the park. I don’t think she could have delivered that speech any better. Even if I hadn’t suggested a line, I would say that the speech hit almost every note just right.
But here’s the end of the paragraph, and it’s something I’m wondering too:
(Did the Obama fans feel this way? Is this what their exultation feels like? Wonderful. I’m glad they get to experience it too.)
Perhaps conservatives can finally understand progressives, now that they’ve had what Charlotte Hays calls “A Matthews Moment.”
It’s nice to be able to understand what other people are feeling.
So she can speak well — but what about what her words actually say?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_el_p/cvn_fact_check
Sorry, I pasted the link crazy. Try this instead.
Wow. I expect that kind of “report” from the Obama campaign, but not the AP. That’s hilarious.
And referring to something as “A whopper” in a news report? *grin*
Everyone knew Huckabee’s line was a joke. Surprising that the AP guy didn’t get it. Try to laugh a little, Kuhnhenn. It’s good for you.
The other stuff is either inconsequential (no AP reporter has found it necessary to rebut Obama’s speeches) or not a rebuttal.
(The stuff on taxes, for instance, isn’t a rebuttal as far as I can tell. In fact, it looks like a list of the ways in which Palin was right. That Kuhnhenn included it anyway, in a list of rebuttals, is adorable.)
And finally, I find it interesting that a political reporter seems to find politicians stretching the truth to be newsworthy. Doesn’t something have to be new to be news?