by Jared Evan
Twitter users reacted to yesterday’s Democratic National Convention by suggesting the bizarre musical performance that ended the show looked like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit”, Paul Joseph Watson, popular cutting edge political commentator pointed out.
Most critics on both sides of the aisle generally agree DNC convention’s first night was boring and numbers indicate this was a ratings flop compared to the first night of the convention in 2016.
LA Times pointed out :
Nielsen data showed an average of around 18.7 million viewers watched the speakers featured from 10 to 11:15 p.m. Eastern on the major ad-supported channels. The speakers included former First Lady Michelle Obama, who delivered a solemn but scathing indictment of the Trump presidency.
The total fell nearly 28% below the 25.9 million who watched night one of the 2016 convention on the major ad-supported channels, when Obama was also featured.
The Associated Press in a rare moment of objective journalism ,actually fact-checked Michelle Obama’s mention of “children in cages”. The former First Lady’s polarizing and dark speech drew salivating praise from outlets like MSNBC, meanwhile progressives are not impressed.
The most cringe worthy speech was that of Republican Joe Biden supporter John Kasich (Ohio) who made a bizarre speech, drawing furious ire from the progressive wing of the Democrat party and naturally from fellow Republicans.
Kasich , during the strange pre-recorded segment, promised Republicans that the Democrat party under Biden would not veer to the left.
Esteemed far left journal Mother Jones wrote:
A lot of Democrats who are in charge of plotting and planning for the future of the party, seem to share Kasich’s view. While the Republican was accorded plenty of time to speak on Monday evening—in a key slot on the first night of the party’s first virtual convention—AOC has been accorded one minute to address the nation on Tuesday.
That was fine by Kasich, a relentless self-promoter who used a long five minutes to anoint himself as the Democratic Party’s Republican whisperer. On a night when Americans tuned in to hear former first lady Michelle Obama and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders deliver powerful addresses about the need for structural responses to systemic injustices, Kasich endeavored to assure his conservative compatriots that Biden wouldn’t really implement the changes that are needed in a pandemic moment characterized by mass unemployment. “I’m sure there are Republicans and independents who couldn’t imagine crossing over to support a Democrat,” he chirped, in a gimmicky video that featured the former Fox News host standing at a (literal) crossroads. “They fear Joe may turn sharp left and leave them behind. I don’t believe that because I know the measure of the man.”
Meanwhile the underwhelming first night of the DNC convention closed with an amateurish music video featuring Billy Porter and washed up classic rocker Stephen Stills in a “virtual performance” of the protest song “For What It’s Worth”, featuring quickly thrown together third rate video graphics of BLM protesters, superimposed with the 2 musicians preforming
The moment Trump won re-election pic.twitter.com/nEuUp8F0zp
— Secular Talk (@KyleKulinski) August 18, 2020
