Fox News refused to air the first hour of the Democratic National Convention Monday night, choosing instead Sean Hannity to interview Donald Trump Jr. The network’s commentators talk a lot from the second hour. But when it came to the address of former First Lady Michelle Obama, they could not come up with a single criticism.
“It’s very difficult to try to connect with an audience without having an actual audience with you, but she has the ability to connect with people through the screen,” began Dana Perino, former press secretary for George W. Bush. ‘When you talk about authenticity, she has it in spades. She has that voice, she has clarity, and she knows what she wants out of it. She tried to get everyone to really focus and then she had a call to do: Ask for your vote tonight. I think the DNC, when they see in the course of the night, the first virtual convention in our history, they would say that Michelle Obama stuts the landing. ”
“I agree with Dana,” Chris Wallace said next. “Michelle Obama, as she put it, does not like politics and she said that this speech was her most important contribution to the Biden campaign. It was quite a contribution. She really smeared Donald Trump, cut and dice, talking about ‘the chaos and confusion and lack of empathy, especially from this president and from this White House.’
“This was a very effective speech,” he added.
According to Juan Williams, “Michelle Obama” performed better than her famous “if we go low, we go high” of the 2016 convention. “I heard it like a son,” he said. ‘I thought she was talking like a mother, like a sultry mother, like a tiger mother saying to you, this is important. This is something that is important for our family. This is who we are in this family. This is our identity. We have empathy. We understand compassion. ”
“I wonder how penetrating I felt,” Williams continued. “I really thought there was a great speech.”
Anchor Bret Baier, who rarely lets his own opinions be made public, gave Democrats credit for “putting their first foot forward on the first night.”
Even the deeply conservative commentator Brit Hume acknowledged that Obama was “very good” and that her speech was “effective”, although he accused her of including “distractions and exaggerations” in her speech, adding, “but that’s what we expected in political rhetoric. ”
“That question is not the real truth of the case that is being made, but how effectively it is being delivered and whether the attacks are likely to have the effect on the voters they are hoping for,” Hume said. “I probably suspected it in this case.”
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