Last night, the Democrats broadcast night one of their convention. It was boring beyond belief. Sure, they trotted out a pre-recorded speech by Michelle Obama as the big moment of the night. It was nostalgic to see the former first lady, but her speech was recorded so long ago that she didn't even mention Kamala Harris who had not yet been chosen when Obama spoke. Beyond that, we got endless pablum about "we the people" and about how terrible Trump is. The Dems didn't bother to mention antifa or Black Lives Matter and the chaos they have brought to cities across the nation; clearly, there needed to be a plan for that and instead we got silence. They had Andrew Cuomo speak about his great "success" in dealing with the corona virus. Cuomo is the governor who crazily ordered nursing homes to accept patients infected with the virus even though most nursing homes had no ability to cope with that scourge. The resulting mess was horrendous as the corona virus spread through these facilities and killed over 11,000 elderly New Yorkers. Some success! It was more like murder than success.
The truth didn't matter, though, to the Democrats. They went on and on about things that never happened. They took credit for things that they had opposed. They castigated Trump for things with which he was not involved. There's no point in chronicling them. There will be more to come in the rest of the convention.
I don't know what the ratings for last night's gab fest were. I have to assume that they were low. Maybe folks tuned in to see Michelle, but I find it hard to believe that anyone who is not a true believer in the Democrats' cause could have stuck with this hot mess for the whole time.
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