The Media Research Center’s weeklong meltdown over the Democratic National Convention continued with an Aug. 22 post by Curtis Houck raging that nice things were said about Tim Walz:
On Thursday, the nervous sweat had yet to wear off on ABC’s Good Morning America from their weak knees and clammy palms from their Tuesday and Wednesday shows recapping the Democratic National Convention.
This time, the played the role of Russia Today anchors promoting their party’s vice presidential candidate Tim Walz as a scandal-free “[s]ocial studies teacher, retired National Guard member, high school football coach” who “electrified this arena…with a pep talk for the nation” calling on those listening “to give it their all” to save the country from the GOP.
[…]Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos got things going in the opening tease: “Governor Walz takes the stage at the Democratic Convention…Social studies teacher, retired National Guard member, high school football coach…with his wife and children cheering him on. Former President Bill Clinton and TV legend Oprah Winfrey takes the stage, too.”
Chief pom-pom waver Mary Bruce was bursting at the seams in excitement in her lead-off report, insisting the man who’s lied about his children being conceived using IVF and his military service to name a few came with “straight talk” to give “a heartfelt pitch”:
Houck is so desperate to smear non-right-wing media as biased, deliberately ignoring the wild right-wing bias of Fox News.
Houck whined some more:
NBC’s Today came out firing Thursday thoroughly pleased with how their friends at the Democratic National Convention programmed the night prior, deeming it an “unforgettable” and “supercharged” night “heavy on star power” with vice presidential nominee Tim Walz giving off “Midwest dad energy” hounded by Republicans and Oprah Winfrey “expand[ing] the tent” for Democrats.
“Tim Walz introduces himself to the nation with a high-stakes speech, stressing his small-town roots and personal story…while his party rolls out a lineup of stars and politics, Hollywood and music, to make the case for Kamala Harris,” co-host Hoda Kotb proclaimed in a tease.
[…]Amid soundbites of Walz’s speech, Alexander rhetorically fluffed Walz’s pillows like someone working at a five-star hotel: “Walz introducing himself to America, emphasizing his heartland roots…and how his years as a schoolteacher informed his political career…while going after the Trump/Vance agenda…and contrasting the party’s definitions of freedom.”
[…]This nonsense including fawned over Walz as the “[f]ormer schoolteacher and football coach cheered on by his family, including his emotional son, Gus” with a lead-in “heavy on star power” and “talk show giant Oprah Winfrey” calling Harris “a trailblazer”.
Clay Waters joined the freakout:
On Night Two of the Democratic National Convention, anchor Amna Nawaz was talking to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the PBS booth when they were joined by veteran PBS journalist Judy Woodruff.
Nawaz took advantage by tossing aside her journalist hat and hosting a heartfelt feminist kaffeeklatsch hailing VP Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, as a feminist hero on “the cusp” of a historic feat, becoming the first female president, the way Hillary Clinton was supposed to have been in 2016.
[…]As Night Two signed off, Jonathan Capehart got emotional over Michelle Obama’s angry speech. After Capehart said when he was first called upon, “Can I go last?” anchor Geoff Bennett came back to him a few minutes later and Capehart opened his heart, after universal praise from panelists Amy Walter, Judy Woodruff, and David Brooks on Michelle Obama’s speech.
Houck then spent an entire post grousing that “Thursday’s CBS Mornings spent nearly its entire two hours of run time (with commercials) celebrating the previous day’s proceedings at the Democratic National Convention as if they have a personal stake in ensuring Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) win in November,” needlessly featuring “an Notable Quotables-style package of the dumbest moments, presented in chronological order.”
Fondacaro returned to grumble about Harris’ upcoming speech:
With MSNBC finally attending a party convention this cycle (they refused to do their show live from the Republican National Convention), host Ari Melber kicked off the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention by giving his hopeful requests for what Vice President Kamala Harris was going to address in her speech. He was apparently itching for her the attack the “phonies” and “fakes” in the MAGA crowd who claim they represent “real America.”
He obnoxiously began with a spoken-word rendition of Jay Z’s Public Service Announcement and explaining what he meant by “shoot at you actors” (a questionable decision given the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, which MSNBC had questioned the legitimacy of and Melber called a “spectacle”):
[…]Co-host Joy Reid was looking forward to the partying of Harris’s sorority sisters. Meanwhile, Alex Wagner suggested she was feeling the same excitement reminiscent of “the run up to Christmas.”
After Harris’ speech, Jorge Bonilla raged: “The 2024 Democratic National Convention is, in part, the physical manifestation of the transition of the Regime from its former figurehead, President Joe Biden, to its new figurehead Vice President Kamala Harris. The most pro-Regime media outlet has also now fully transitioned to Harris.” As if Bonilla and his MRC co-workers aren’t desperate to become Regime Media themselves by helping to get Trump elected.
Mark Finkelstein got bizarrely angry that nice things were said about Walz’s son:
At least seven times today in the show’s opening minutes, CNN This Morning ran the clip from last night’s DNC of Tim Walz’s son Gus getting emotional and pointing to his father as he spoke: “That’s my dad!”
The panel collectively teared up, with Mark McKinnon saying “Do you have any tissues?” McKinnon also swooned over Walz’s speech, declaring, “I’m telling you, in all my experience, I have never seen anything as authentic as that speech.”
Biden’s former comms director Kate Bedingfield chimed in, saying “if you aren’t moved by that, I don’t know. You got a heart of stone.” Bedingfield also referred to Gus’s emotion for his father as “winning.” Whether she meant that in political terms, or in the sense of winning as a family matter, wasn’t clear.
The emotion for his father displayed by Gus Walz, who as Hunt mentioned has dealt with disabilities and autism, was clearly moving. But that CNN was trying to extract from it the maximum political benefit for Harris-Walz was equally obvious.
It’s sad that Finkelstein couldn’t restrain himself from taking a veiled shot at Walz by whining that he was praised.
Meanwhile, the MRC’s meltdown raged on:
- ‘That’s Margaret Thatcher, Dude!’ CNN Analyst Elliot Williams Goes Gaga For Kamala
- Tapper: Kamala Delivered the Best Speech By Anyone Ever of All Time (Fondacaro is lying, as he does; Tapper said no such thing)
- ‘All Kinds of Surprises!’ CNN Hosts Enthralled By ‘Best-Produced’ DNC
- CBS News SWOONS Over Kamala Harris’s Acceptance Speech
- ‘Everything We’ve Been Waiting For’: Colbert Hails Harris Speech
- ABC: ‘Moderate’ Kamala Sounded Like Reagan With ‘Morning in America’ DNC Speech
- ‘Aura of a Prosecutor’; NBC Hails ‘Moderate’ Kamala Harris’s ‘Impassioned’ DNC Speech
- Morning Joe: ‘Patriotism Fully Reclaimed’ As DNC ‘Flags Got Bigger’
- Politico Aids Post-Convention Kamala Push By Floating ‘Movement’ Label
- ‘Sound of History’; CBS Swoons Kamala’s DNC Speech Was ‘Feat of Political Athleticism’
- PBS DNC Silliness: Harris Makes Dems ‘Feel Seen,’ ‘Trump Derangement’ Not Real Diagnosis!
- PBS Hails DNC’s ‘Patriotism’ Versus RNC’s ‘Weighted Blanket’
Geoffrey Dickens concluded with a self-congratulatory roundup:
There was as an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down.
[…]The following are the worst outbursts from leftist journalists during the Democratic National Convention:
Dickens offered no evidence that any “journalist” he quoted was a “leftist.” He certainly never labels any Fox News reporters as right-wing even though they clearly are.