Posts Tagged ‘CNN’

God, I can’t believe today’s events have forced me to write three times today. Three times! It’s not like I don’t need to get prepped for football practice or anything. Oh, wait, I do (yeah, I’m coaching six and seven year olds in the local Y league).

But, sometimes you just have to go with the flow. Wolf Blitzer, one of America’s great self-parodying personalities (every other word is “thebestpoliticalteamontelevision”) had to just come on the air and announce that John McCain refused to do an interview with Larry King because CNN’s Campbell Brown was “mean” to a McCain campaign stooge last night.

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Bill Clinton. Which Clinton do we see tonight?

Okay, regardless of how the pundits slice and dice it, Hillary Clinton got the job done last night. It was a great speech and it hit all the right notes, especially in light of the pathetic attack-dog commercials John McCain has been running. Most of the delegates seemed to get it — that failing to fight for Obama was failing to fight for the things Clinton has been fighting for — and she made the point very strongly.

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Of course, CNN’s train-wreck convention coverage managed to find a delegate unable to come to terms with reality: Anne Price Mills of Washington State. Generously, she said she wouldn’t vote for McCain in November, but that Obama had two months to convince her to vote for him.

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