Last night the RNC had a great lineup of speakers that were both compelling and uplifting. Their speeches weren’t just written to ‘bash Biden’, but were substantive about the stark differences between what Republicans are offering and just how radical the Democrats have become. But you wouldn’t know any of this by watching CNN’s response, because they were hyperfocused on the fact that Republicans had a bunch of ‘black folks’ on stage:
According to Newsbusters, this starts with Jake Tapper arguing that the diversity of speakers isn’t really representative of the Republican Party:
In terms of what the Republicans were accomplishing this evening, what they tried to accomplish, you are right, Wolf, I think they definitely were trying to appeal to the base. Obviously, they were showing a lot of diversity in the people that they had speak this evening.
It’s not representative of the Republican party as a whole, certainly not representative of the Republican Party or the Trump administration here in Washington D.C.
Next up you’ve got Nia-Malika Henderson claiming that these diverse speakers were trying to convince voters that Trump isn’t as racist as we all know he is…or something:
And that ran throughout this entire convention, this idea that the Democrats, who again are a very diverse party, now they have an African-American and an Indian woman in the number two slot. That is the fear that they are conjuring up.
Tim Scott there, I think he’s, on the one hand, trying to reach out to black voters, but I think he’s also there to give white voters who might be worried about voting for someone like Donald Trump, who has said all sorts of racist comments. It sort of, I think, Tim Scott and Nikki Haley are there to say, “Listen, maybe Donald Trump isn’t as racist as you think he is or as racist as he often sounds because here’s Tim Scott praising him, here’s Nikki Haley praising him, and there are a number of other African-Americans woven thought tonight.”
Anderson Cooper chimed in along the same lines…
“How much do you think of some of this tonight was sort of giving permission to more moderate white voters that you know what, it’s okay for you to vote for Donald Trump despite his rhetoric on his, you know, some of his racist rhetoric over the last three years?”
In a another clip you have Chris Cuomo saying that Tim Scott was really just carrying Trump’s water, that he was ‘careful’ about what he didn’t mention because Trump is really a liar and a racist:
Here's the moment when @CNN's @ChrisCuomo accused Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) of "carrying water" for President Trump, the liar and racist. pic.twitter.com/JBQuvcZDPE
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) August 25, 2020
Lemon chimes in that Scott was careful not to mention the 2016 convention, but why on earth would he mention it? Trump already won that election and has been president for nearly four years now. Why would he focus on anything from 2016?
The other thing I wanted to address is that these idiotic CNN talking heads argued that last night was primarily an appeal to the Trump base. ARE YOU SERIOUS??? I don’t know if they are simply morons or just had a pre-packaged narrative that they were going to use or bust, but clearly what we saw and what they saw was very different. What I saw was a bunch of speakers trying to appeal to America as a whole, to voters of all races with ideas we all share in common, not just to the Trump base. Republicans were trying to expand the party by showing how the party has already expanded with these great speakers.