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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Hillary Clinton capped off a Democratic National Convention focused on communicating a confident, optimistic vision of America on Thursday night with a positive speech highlighting her personal history and emphasizing the need to work together for a more progressive future. As TPM’s Allegra Kirkland reported, this sunnier Clinton failed to convince some of her critics. Several male Fox News hosts and The New York Times’ David Brooks responded to the speech with comments about her “not so attractive voice” and “combative manner.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “It’s well to step back and note how minutely woven together, how thematically integrated Obama’s and Clinton’s speeches really were — a framing and an answer. They painted a picture of Trump built not mainly with one-liners or put downs but with a much more organic narrative about a force that is basically un-American, a threat to the basic fiber of national identity. More than this, the crafters of the convention message and themes were able to pivot off Trump’s awfulness and apocalypticism to capture a deeper and more resonant image of America’s promise and values in need of vigilant protection. For all the things you can imagine from Clinton, doing something crazy or going off half-cocked, ignorantly blundering into a disaster because she surrounds herself with ignorant sycophants … these are basically unimaginable. She might fail in all the mundane ways other presidents have failed but she will not from a manifest unfitness for the office.”
Say What?!
“These people are doing this. They want me dead, Bolling, literally dead.”
– Fox host Bill O’Reilly lashed out against criticism of his comments that slaves who helped build the White House were “well fed.”
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Trump has little he can say here. Bloomberg spoke directly to business people–even small time ones because he is highly respected. I come from corporate middle management and Bloomberg was highly respected by my colleagues and me. It was earned and not bought by fiddling around with loopholes. This swung a bunch of independents, Chamber of Commerce types, and about everybody who keeps up with business “heroes”. Trump is not in that league — or even close.”
Related: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave what he described as “an unconventional convention speech” calling for voters to unite behind Hillary Clinton across party lines.
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