Diva Dispatch for Tuesday. Catharsis ensued.
Posted by: Donna
Hillary made it clear that she’s for Barack and brought the house down with a scathing condemnation of John McCain and a powerful statement of party unity. I can say without equivocation that I am a Hillary Clinton fan today.
And it was a pretty productive day for your Diva too. I wore my Free Cindy McCain t-shirt to the convention center and got a great response from people. Three of my fellow female delegates donned the shirts as well and we were quite a hit as we walked around, with many people stopping to take photos of us. There were numerous inquiries about the shirt so I’ll be launching a shop on the FreeCindyMcCain.com website posthaste to peddle them. We made a point of getting the Obama family and Joe Biden to look at our shirts (they were in the box above our nosebleed seats). They were appreciative. One of Michelle’s relatives wanted a shirt but Secret Service wouldn’t let us pass one over the railing to her.
Anyway, back to Hillary’s speech. As a person who was in the convention center experiencing her excellent oratory and persuasion, in the presence of thousands of her former supporters, I had the silly idea that a bunch of Democratic activists were sharing a kumbaya moment where the losing candidate in a grueling primary told everyone they should support the winning one. Au contraire, the MSM will have none of that. Unbeknownst to me, until a Hillary delegate on the bus back to the hotel informed me, the press people are hovering over the Clinton supporters like vultures, pestering them about the level of their support for the nominee. She claimed she and her counterparts couldn’t go five feet without a reporter enquiring if they really support Obama. Gotta keep that divisive narrative going, dontcha, media hacks? Sickening.
Even more sickening was the “analysis” of Andrea Mitchell, Chuck Todd, and David Gregory as they sat in the convention center after the closing gavel. They kibbutzed about Hillary’s feelings and her supporters’ emotions. What the hell? Gore Vidal famously observed that most of what passes for political commentary these days is really just theater criticism. That’s still very much the case but what is happening now with this ginned up garbage over the supposed masses of disenchanted delicate flower female Hillary supporters is orders-of-magnitude more absurd, not to mention disgustingly sexist and offensive. I can’t think of any category of person more useless than a pundit at this point, so they can sure as hell lay off their 2 dollar psychoanalyses, and gaslighting, of the female electorate.
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I agree that those guys were utterly useless last night but Andrea Mitchell definately takes the cake. Did you see her trying to interview (as if she were a real reporter of something) that 70 something delegate whom she had been sitting next to? And who’d shed a few tears during the speech? (As did I, and I have always been a Barack supporter.) There was the way she talked to her, as if she was deaf or didn’t speak English. And not a well spoken party leader and veteran delegate. I mean the constant repeating of the “Why are you sad? But why are you sad? Why were you crying?” I mean, come on. That’s how I talk to my 3-year-old. She couldn’t give up that somewhere, she would find someone who would give her the “scoop” of the convention by actually admitting that yes, Hillary supporters are bitter, they weren’t really in it for anything to do with Democratic principals, and they’re crying because Hillary really deserved the White House. Maybe this poor unsuspecting, somewhat elderly woman was her best chance? I am sure Andrea is the one with hearing and comprehension issues that needs to be spoken to like a toddler. But that’s okay. She can leave the real thinking to those of us who actually have a brain!