I was watching the speech on CSPAN (thank you Kristina40 for reminding me of this option!) but I decided to mosey on over to FoxNews immediately thereafter. Believe it or not, it wasn't all bad. Yes, the anchor did mention, over the swelling scene, that our candidate's name is "Barack Hussein Obama" but he did say (with surprise, the dunce!) that Obama favored cutting outdated government programs.
But it's not so much what he said, as what happened afterwards. Several minutes of blessed silence from the peanut gallery as the "spectacle" played out. Patriotic music, waving flags, the undulating energy of the crowd.
And in this blessed radio-silence, I could almost hear FoxNews viewers, turning their TVs off, set by set, and going to bed. Have fun speaking to the wingnuts and the dregs, pundits!
What are you watching? What are you hearing?
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UPDATE:
Here's what you're contributing to the melange of framing:
On Fox, briefer zooms out a bit on the Fox coverage:
Yeah, and the ones that stayed around (3+ / 0-)
heard a couple of the commentators say it was a pretty good speech. And I just heard an AARP commercial about the nation needing health care.
Wonder if they are listening?
VirginiaDem notes a tough question being posed to Krauthammer on CNN that we would never have heard on the news last week:
Shorter Hume to Krauthammer (2+ / 0-)
"Tell us why small business owners shouldn't vote for Obama."