FROZEN

I decided to watch CNN’s coverage of the Republican Convention for two reasons.  One is that the SF Giants had the day off and there was little else on.  The other was that I sometimes watch the enemy because they provide better insight into how the liberal left actually views things.

Three things stood out.  CNN played the speech by the mother of Sean Smith in its entirety.  It was devastating.  While there will be the typical liberal complaints that this was hate speech and that it exploited tragedy, it was riveting.  Regardless of whether or not you think it was appropriate to have her speak, the honesty was overpowering.  It was impossible to listen to that speech and not realize that Hillary Clinton is not just a liar, she is a cold-hearted ass.  When this woman said the State Department refused to talk to her because she was not “next of kin” it sent a shudder through the audience.

Melanie Trump’s speech was not a complete disaster, which is the most anyone should have expected.  Yes, the speech writer plagiarized Michelle Obama.  But, a little research will show that those same lines were plagiarized by someone the speech writer for Michelle Obama.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/if-melania-trump-plagiarized-michelle-obama-2008-speech-then-michelle-obama-plagiarized-hers

Obama himself plagiarized lines from Cory Booker.  The main stream media will ignore that sad reality, but it doesn’t matter.  Melania Trump is still Melania Trump and nothing changed.

The speeches ranged from mediocre to terrible.  Perhaps the worst speech was the one given by Michael Flynn more than justifying Donald Trump’s decision to dump him as a VP Candidate.  Joni Ernst was also bad with the added distraction that people were getting up and leaving in droves.  But then she delivered a moment that was pure magic.  It just may have been the best moment of the night.  CNN stupidly interviewed Joni Ernst.  They totally underestimated her.  When she started talking about the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal she eviscerated Hillary on national television.  Instead of the stiff woman with the squeaky voice reading poorly from a teleprompter, they were confronted with a brilliant professional woman who commanded an Army Transportation unit during the Iraq War.  She was riveting.

She said she was not sure whether Hillary Clinton deserved to be in jail, but that this scandal should disqualify her from being President of the United States.  Then, as a former Armey Commander she talked about her own training with regard to classified information and she delivered what should be a fatal blow to Hillary Clinton.  She said she was appalled that Hillary lacked the intelligence to recognize classified information and the need to protect it.  She was calm, professional and impossible to ignore.

No one at CNN challenged her on that point, they were shocked into silence.  The looks on their faces were those of people who had just been delivered a harsh dose of the cold hard truth.

I doubt that many people will see that interview and that is the real shame.  Shortly after this the Melania plagiarism scandal broke and CNN quickly moved on to covering that.  They pointed out, correctly, that this was a really stupid mistake, not by Melania Trump but rather by the Trump campaign.  They are right about that. Once again carelessness by Trump provided an unnecessary distraction just when Hillary was being decimated on national television.

We seem to be frozen in time.  The same thing happens over and over again.  Hillary Clinton is reeling from body blow after body blow.  She is only kept upright because she has the good fortune to be in the ring with someone too self-absorbed and too clumsy to just let her fall flat on her face.  The only thing that can rescue Hillary Clinton from herself is the person the Republicans are about to choose to be their candidate in the general election.  Frozen.

TDM