Huh. I liked Bill's speech a lot more than a couple MSNBC folks, evidently.

[cyberswede]

Rachel Maddow panned the beginning (thought he talked too much about himself).

I disagree completely with Steve Schmidt, who said it meandered & was too long (called it a wedding speech gone bad), especially for folks watching on tv.

Lawrence O'Donnell seemed to like it, though.

I thought it personalized Hillary very well, in addition to enumerating her accomplishments throughout her career.

[Doctor Jack]

1. Regular NBC is extremely positive

They all said it was amazing.

[Siwsan]

2. I really, really appreciated the speech because now I feel I really know Hillary

And I am impressed beyond belief.

[csziggy]

15. I thought I knew Hillary - but now I know her much better

She is an amazing woman!

[still_one]

3. The crowd loved it. Who cares what the talking heads think

[63splitwindow]

4. Read right to Rachel... and quit reading.

I am watching on C-SPAN. The commentators, all of them, no longer exist in my convention experience.

[tman]

5. I'm not Bill Clintons biggest fan

But it was an amazing speech. He's a great story teller.

[msongs]

6. watch on cspan or the other alternatives. no blabbering idiots, just you and the convention nt

[Stinky The Clown]

7. What else can be expected from RATFUCKERS?

[lapucelle]

8. They wanted Bill to mess up, go way off message, or get booed and heckled

They had already written their "Bill is an embarrassing has-been liability who no longer has political skillz" script.

[jmg257]

9. CNN loved it...rightly so. Great story of the real Hillary. nt

[stopbush]

10. That would be the same Rachel Maddow who opens every iteration

of her nightly show with 20 minutes of vocal masturbation as she says the same thing over and over again, just to be sure we idiots understand what she's talking about? That Rachel Maddow?

[DURHAM D]

11. A BIG FAT AMEN TO THIS.

She is a silly person.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. Absolutely! It takes her 3 hours to build up to a story and then you're left disappointed.

I stopped watching Rachel last year. I only really like Larry O'Donnell. Chris Hayes is weak when going up against the Republicans or conservatives. He lets their lies slide too much. Joy Reid is great but I don't get a chance to see her much.

[stopbush]

20. O'Donnel had his head so far up Bernie's ass this year that I stopped watching.

I' ve given up on MSNBC. They've gone from being a liberal leaning network to overcompensating the other way.

[BigBearJohn]

12. taught me a lot about Hillary that I was definitely unaware of. Bill inspired me for SURE

[stopbush]

22. Those of us who knew all those things about Hillary and have been

supporting her because we knew that the CARTOON VERSION of Hilary being flogged in the media was just that are overjoyed that her story was finally told tonight, and told by the world's greatest story teller, to boot.

[onehandle]

13. Rachel, nose in the air, Maddow is so above us.

Loved it when Brian Williams says 'Can you hear me?' to Rachel as she seethes silently.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Chuck Todd pretty much told her she's full of shit, too.

I watched on CSPAN and switched to MSNBC to see what the RATFUCKERS are saying to RATFUCK the Democrats.

Fuck you, Rachel.

[Skittles]

28. not her best hour

[gaspee]

16. I found myself

thinking along the same lines as Rachel, knowing what he did to her later with the whole affair thing.

IMO, that's what skeeved Rachel out

The whole time he was talking about how much he loved her, all I could think about was how he humiliated her so publically

She deserved so much better from him.

She is an amazing woman and so much less flawed a human being as he is

[stopbush]

18. Guess what? They're still married. She's running against a jerk

who is on his third marriage and who openly fantasizes about fucking his daughter, and who openly boasts about the dozens of affairs he's had.

So, Trump is allowed to talk openly about how much his current plagerizing wife means to him, but it's off limits for Bill Clinton to talk about his 45-year relationship with his one and only wife?

You know what - fuck that. Fuck that very much.

[phylny]

23. Thank you for saying

what I was thnking.

[gaspee]

24. Stop swearing at me

I am allowed to have an opinion and just because Trump is a vile human being doesn't mean that Clinton didn't treat his wife badly.

Back then, I could not believe she would stay with him, but I was younger back then.

Again, you have no right to treat me like a piece of dirt for having a differing opinion than you do.

[lapucelle]

34. Well the marriage vow is "for better or worse" and Hillary is known to keep her promises.

I'm always amused when people vilify Hillary for not dumping Bill and see it as some kind of character flaw.

[gaspee]

35. I didn't say that

Back then, I was in my 20's and just could not relate - I would have dumped anyone who treated me that way. Now that I am older, I can see the other side to it.

I have not once said it was her character flaw - I wish people would stop putting words in my mouth

[Skittles]

21. I remember reading something a college roommate of Hillary's said

everyone has their vice, and Hillary's vice has always been Bill Clinton

Jeez, they're still married, let it go already

[gaspee]

25. I am not judging her

She did no wrong - not even staying with him. They have what they have.

But that is not the point.

There are an awful lot of people who like to abuse posters who have differing opinions on this topic.

[kentuck]

17. I think he was as concise...

as he is capable of being. He did a great job !

[geek tragedy]

26. Bill is long-winded and meanders. That's how he made his entry on the national stage

He's also the most effective political communicator of his generation

[tammywammy]

27. I liked it.

[emulatorloo]

29. Joy Reid Chris Hayes liked it as lot, thought humanized HRC

Joy Reid also pointed out that campaign is going for married white women to pull them away from voting Republican

[LisaM]

30. We all did! Don't worry.

Best speech of his life.

[PatrickforO]

31. Bill's speech was brilliant because it did something for me - this whole night

did - it showed the human and caring face of Hillary Clinton. THAT's what I needed to know to support her. For a long time during this primary I honestly thought she cared more about getting elected that doing the job but Bill's (and the numerous other) speech tonight convinced me otherwise.

So...Bill knocked it out of the park tonight.

[Mosby]

32. his hands were shaking a little

I wonder if many noticed, I was watching c-span that showed the whole frame.

[lapucelle]

33. Jake Tapper on CNN just said that Bill Clinton should have spoken about his infidelities.

He said that it was the elephant in the room that everyone wanted to hear about. (Apparently Jake sees elephants that no one else can see. Maybe they're pink.)

The panel's reaction was absolute silence. Wolf Blitzer was staring at him like he had lost his mind. Then Jake made it worse by babbling about how everyone knows that the Clintons don't have a normal marriage, but that's OK because, you know, they have to spend a lot of time apart. It was truly a WTF moment.

[emulatorloo]

37. There were subtle references to getting thru trouble and heartbreak

Well done.

Tapper sounds like he's off the rails.

[lapucelle]

40. I've been married for almost 40 years.

It's not always an easy road.

A Republican coworker actually said to me "What, we're supposed to believe that he was attracted to her in college? He likes women who are pretty."

I responded, "Yeah, and I was really surprised that none of Trump's kids talked about how much he hurt their mother when he very publicly dumped her for a younger women." Crickets.

It's none of their business, but they'll never let it go.

[tavernier]

36. For as great as this convention has been

is how terrible MSNBC has been all through it. They cut off speakers, yak on the floor during prayers obviously annoying the delegates, act like they are the arbiters of what is good judgement regarding the speeches, etc. etc.

Thought I'd never say this, but even David Gregory on CNN has been far less annoying and even a breath of fresh air at moments.

[emulatorloo]

38. Chris Matthews panel gave it great reviews

Joy Reid, Howard Finemann, Chris Hayes, and Pennsylvania Senator.

[Rex]

39. The MSM lol

He was amazing.

[0rganism]

41. i thought the first part was boring and kinda creepy

but it was Bill, and his voice is like buttered rum for the ears.

if it was anyone else giving that kind of speech, i would have tuned out immediately, but it's Bill...
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/etlk83/the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore-blacklash-2016--the-unblackening---bill-clinton-s-awkward-pro-hillary-speech-at-the-dnc