Fox News Hosts Gush Over Michelle Obama: She 'Flayed' Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

Fox News didn’t air the first hour of the Democratic National Convention Monday night, opting instead for Sean Hannity interviewing Donald Trump Jr. The network’s commentators talked over much of the second hour. But when it came to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s address, they couldn’t come up with a single criticism.

“It’s very difficult to try to connect with an audience without an actual audience there with you, but she has the ability to connect with people through the screen,” former press secretary for George W. Bush Dana Perino began. “When you talk about authenticity, she has it in spades. She has that voice, she has clarity, and she knows what she is out there wanting to do. She was trying to get everybody to really focus and then she had a call to action: Ask for your ballot tonight. I think that the DNC, if they look over the course of the night, the first virtual convention of our history, they would say that Michelle Obama stuck the landing.”

“I agree with Dana,” Chris Wallace said next. “Michelle Obama, as she said, doesn’t like politics and she said that this speech was her main contribution to the Biden campaign. It was a heck of a contribution. She really flayed, sliced and diced Donald Trump, talking about the chaos and confusion and lack of empathy, especially coming from this president and from this White House.”

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According to Juan Williams, Michelle Obama “outperformed” her famous “when they go low, we go high” speech from the 2016 convention. “I heard it like a son,” he said. “I thought she spoke like a mother, like a stern mother, like a tiger mom saying to you, this is important. This is something that is important to our family. This is who we are in this family. This is our identity. We have empathy. We understand compassion.”

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/michelle-obamas-dnc-speech-gets-rave-reviews-on-fox-news/

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The article goes on to note that Bret Baier said Democrats put “their best foot forward on the first night” -- and even Brit Hume, though falsely claiming there were “distortions and exaggerations” in her speech, said it was "very good" and "effective."



Video at the link.


Expect another metldown, another rant against Fox, from Trump.

[pnwest]

1. Wow. That's pretty amazing!

[Yeehah]

21. Simply part of their overall strategy to have a veneer of objectivity

They will say some nice things about the former First Lady and spread scurrilous lies about Biden. Lame brain republicans will say, "see, they're fair and balanced!"

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Distortions and Exaggerations in Michelle Obama's speech?

There were none, Brit Hume!

What a fucking moron.

[relayerbob]

6. HE's correct

She grossly exaggerated his normalcy, by not calling 45 a traitorous puppet for Putin, bent on eliminating anyone who doesn't bot to him.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. That's as close to trolling the traitor tot as Fox comes

Expect a twitler rant coming sometime between now and 5am

[Beartracks]

17. OMG I could watch this all day.

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[stonecutter357]

4. K&R

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Wow, time for Trump to go full-OANN now.

That narcissist can't handle the slightest criticism of himself or the praise of his opponents.

[VWolf]

18. You rang?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-lashes-out-at-michelle-obama-over-address-at-democratic-convention/ar-BB18618q?ocid=msedgntp

[underpants]

9. The first hour was TV GOLD. MAGIC.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anything like that

[Cha]

10. TY, hpd!

[orleans]

11. dana using the word spade just kind of jumped out at me

i don't care that it is an expression ("she has it in spades"
the word spade (for the younger crowd) was a racial slur

she could have said something else:
"When you talk about authenticity"
michelle has plenty of authenticity OR
michelle is completely authentic OR
anything without using the word spade

maybe i'm being too sensitive
maybe dana is too young to know the slur
or maybe that's just where her head goes in making connections

[Hekate]

12. Are you aware that the 4 suits of playing cards are: Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and SPADES?

Hearts & Diamonds are RED. Spades & Clubs are BLACK.

“Having it in spades” is a winning hand, or a very strong hand, in a game of cards.

“Calling a spade a spade” means you are not calling a shovel “an implement for turning over the soil” or similar fancy language, but are using common language for a common item. At a certain point in my youth I read something that indicated language had changed or was changing: “He is so plain-spoken he just calls a spade a bloody shovel.”

Calling a human being a spade is indeed an insult, but refers back to the color of a playing card, which in itself is innocuous. Context is everything.

“You gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away...“

Walk away from this one. Michelle won this game, hands down, and she was being praised for it without the slightest hint of insult.

[3Hotdogs]

14. Nicely done.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. {moving this reply, sorry}

[happy feet]

19. This!

[orleans]

23. yes, i am aware of all of that

and all those expressions

and in spite of that-- it stood out
could be i just have trust issues with republicans
or people on the fox news payroll

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Shovels. "Black as the ace of spades" was the adjectival phrase & sometimes used as an insult.

But the expression "has it in spades" refers to shovels, which the English call spades. It means she has so much of it that it can't be simply picked up and carried, it has to be shovelled. Think rail car loads.

[orleans]

24. you go ahead and think that.

i thought: inappropriate word usage

[machoneman]

20. Yeah, saw that too. A black women they claim has it in "spades". Not too racist, eh?

[Kid Berwyn]

25. Professional Smear

Spade has been used to smear human beings for a long time.

Even if it wasn’t intended to hurt, the word’s use diminishes a human being.

[Hekate]

28. Juanita Tolliver on MSNBC minutes ago: "Kamala Harris called a spade a spade..."

"Kamala Harris called a spade a spade when she said she knew a predator when she saw one"....

Juanita Tolliver is a young Black woman. Can we all agree that she was not subconsciously or in her wildest dreams using a racist slur?

[Sherman A1]

13. K&R

[greatlaurel]

22. K&R

Michele Obama's speech will go down in history as one of the greatest convention speeches of all time. She used her digital format for greatest impact. She is incredible.

[Karadeniz]

26. CNN and MSNBC need to incorporate these remarks into their discussions of night one!

[AC_Mem]

27. It's Easy

It's because we long for the days when she was our First Lady and her dear husband was Our President.

Normalcy. Class. Empathy.

Things we have missed for these very very long almost four years.

Annette/Florida