RNC Successfully Pushed The Message That The Republican Party Is “The Real Party Of The People”
Plus: My list of three moments that may not have been the most politically gigantic, but were touching to me.
This has been an emotional week, starting with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. I expressed my emotional reaction here.
It really is hard to believe it will only be a week tomorrow.
I watched some of the Republican National Convention coverage. Not wall-to-wall, but enough to get a sense.
I talked a little about my assessment on the Tony Katz Show. (Other topics we covered were the Florida case being thrown out and Equal Protection Project’s Civil Rights Complaint against Indiana University.)
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Partial Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, cleaned up for transcript clarity)
Katz (00:00):
There’s a lot to take and a lot to digest from the Republican National Convention. A tremendous amount. And nothing may be maybe greater than success. It cannot be overstated. The convention was a success. It was entertaining. It was enjoyable. It had the party in terms of like, hey, this is our nominee, and we’re not questioning, in an absolute straight direction where people could clearly see the enthusiasm was. T that is a little different. And certainly on the entertainment part that is super rare for Republicans. Tony Katz. Tony Katz today, good to be with you.
William Jacobson joins us right now from Legal insurrection, Cornell Law, professor legal insurrection, uh, dot com. Uh, you have watched many of these, you have seen, uh, many of these conventions, in your take, how much did this convention upset the student body at Cornell
WAJ (01:01):
<laugh> Well, I don’t think they watched it <laugh>, but I don’t think it upset them. They probably only saw clips on M-S-N-B-C, from their fake studio pretending to be at the convention when in fact they just had some digital background.
Katz (01:15):
Now, hold on before I even let you continue. I don’t know if people know this. The M-S-N-B-C background as William Jacobson is discussing, was meant to look like they were at the RNC. They were never there. It was a fake all this week. That is, that is stunning. Did they admit to that? Did they admit? Yeah. Yeah. We were trying to lie.
WAJ (01:37):
I don’t know, but, you know, talk about fake news. Okay. So, every now and then I do tune into M-S-N-B-C just for kicks. And, you know, I didn’t realize until after the fact that they were not there and they were pretending to be there. So talk about fake news. It was completely fake news. They were pretending to be at the RNC when they were not.
Katz (01:59):
As for the RNC itself, not fake news, your students didn’t see it. What did you think of it?
WAJ (02:06):
I thought it was really captivating. It was better than I expected. I’m not a fan of these conventions because it’s just, you know, ridiculous speech after ridiculous speech normally. But I actually found this one pretty interesting. I thought this was very well done.
I think that it pushed a message, essentially rebranding the Republican Party as the party of the people, the real party of the people. I thought it was very effective.
I wish they’d started Trump’s speech an hour earlier at 9:00 PM Eastern instead of 10:00 PM Eastern, because, frankly, I turned it off because I fell asleep <laugh> about an hour into it. And I would’ve liked to see the whole thing.
And in fact, right now, I’ve been looking at the, the parts that I missed and I thought it was very good. I thought the whole convention really was good. It showed unity. You had the various candidates, it highlighted, things that are the Democratic Party weaknesses. So I thought it was an excellent convention, what that means going forward. I don’t know. It was obviously a little weird because you’re not even really sure who you’re running against. But overall I thought it was a huge success.
It was more than just a success, I think the convention had key emotional moments I’ll remember. There are too many to list, and many were politically important, such as the families of the Marines killed due to Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, and the remembrance of firefighter Corey Comperatore, murdered in the assassination attempt on Trump.
But I have three moments that may not have been the most politically gigantic, but they were touching to me.
Far and away the speech by Donald Trump, Jr.’s daughter Kai Trump was the winner of the convention. If any of my five granddaughters grows up to view me the way Kai views her grandfather, I’ll be a lucky man.
As a father, I could not be more proud of my daughter Kai and the amazing job she did last night. She reached out to me on Monday morning and simply said she feels very strongly that she wants to talk about her grandfather at the RNC and she nailed it! pic.twitter.com/8QXiPO4jlu
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 18, 2024
I also found the obvious love between Usha and JD Vance enthralling. This clip posted by Asra Nomani captured it.
Usha Vance is the star of the night. Love how she takes her husband’s hand and squeezes in closer, as all our hearts flutter with the lyrics. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/1HGYANv0Vl
— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) July 19, 2024
And last but not least, the finale with Nessun Dorma. What an ending. (I just wish it came earlier in the evening so I could have seen it live.)
RNC Closes with the Italian classic Nessun Dorma
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing…. pic.twitter.com/cKO1DfYEpd
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) July 19, 2024
I’m looking forward to the DNC riots and looting in Chicago.
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Comments
To me the biggest contrast was the RNC, and the fact that the MSNBC anchors got caught green screening in the RNC behind them while they were sitting in their studio.
Real vs fake.
Don’t forget Don Jr’s comeback to the leading question from the excuse for a reporter from MSNBC. Priceless!
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What was it?
The brazen dishonesty of this stunt is contemptible and offensive. I actually was fooled and thought that these reprobates were physically at the convention.
Just another day at the office, for the vile Dhimmi-crats’ myriad subservient and dutifully loyal Pravda outlets.
The Nessum Dorma had me going — “why did they do THAT?”, I wondered. But it’s great music, and the people there loved it, and in the end, it’s about showing (as our host pointed out) that the Pubs and the RNC was the happy place in the country this past week. With a little class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuRBU8UVhDU
Was played at the end of The Sum of All Fears movie.
Payback to the traitors.
Someone on another site said he also played this song in 2016 at the end of that convention also.
Trump did it for Melania. She loves the song and plays it at home during dinner.
The last word of Nessun Dorma:
Vincero
It means WIN!
Nessun Dorma was a message.. let no one sleep.
I am coming for you kinda vibe.
The Democrats will close their convention with a rising rendition of Fπ€k the Police as the rioters set one last gigantic fire.
Pretty sure more than few members of NWA and many of their fans are at least considering voting for Trump.
I don’t think these conventions mean much to elections directly. The people don’t watch but the donors sometimes do so there is that.
I’ve been watching the conventions for decades. I watch the DNC as well because it’s where you see the tone they want to set and the direction they want to move. Yeah, it’s often boring AF but it’s of interest to political junkies.
I am a techie. It is interesting to dig up photographs or films or videotapes of all the conventions that have taken place. Since I was born. Press photographer is going from speed graphics to rolaflexes to 35 mm. That I remember the first actual remote television broadcast from the convention floor. One of the announcers was there with a cameraman and there was a third man standing there with a ton of equipment attached to some sort of a harness on his back. Look at what we have today.
Some sleazy liberal was being a scummy liberal on the Youtube airing of Corey Comperatore’s funeral on the comment side. His comments were terrible and I hope someone finds him and doxes him into poverty and homelessness.
No sympathy for any democrat death from here on out. That man was an absolute hero covering his family and taking the bullet and that scum of a liberal was making fun and degrading the funeral.
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I also think Donald Trump looked a bit more pensive as near death experiences often make some changes in people.
I’m not sure he was so much thinking about himself as he was about Corey Comperatore. I think the man’s death hit him harder than we know.
The whole convention was Too shelf
I’m
Personally not thrilled with JDV
And his wife and his connections to Vik worry me, Obama like, let’s face it , just a few years ago he was calling Trump hitler
But we shall see
Ther were so many beautiful parts of the convention, my top 3 , definitely the gold star families of the Afghanistan Veterans
Trumps speech, all the personal stories by everyday Americans trashed by this Government
One last comment on this.
This effing cow without the intelligence of a cow should be fired, blacklisted from ever speaking in public again and should only be allowed to be the janitor at animal slaughter house.
What is it with these liberal scum?
MSNBC’s Symone Sanders calls Corey Comperatore Tribute “Sickening” and a “Prop”
https://x.com/scbpoli/status/1814327245554549135
What a bytch
There is NO common ground with this evil trash
So, we have a decision to make
The flip is amazing, but maybe it’s also accurate to call it the party of the normal.
lol top
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/breaking-massive-fire-engulfs-dallas-area-church-led/
It’s all connected, they have burnt down thousands of ancient church’s all over Europe, including Notre Dame
They wil only spice things up now that Trumps convention is over amd the assassination was not successful did not have the outcome they were hoping for
God bless President Trump and his family
Tangentially related, but Bud Light has now officially dropped to THIRD in sales this past month, now losing to both Modelo and Michelob Ultra (even though Michelob is another Anheuser Busch product).
It’s sales are now 30% lower than Modelo, the brand it was beating just a year ago.
The tide has turned on the woke wankers and DEI nonsense. Normal people are just sick and tired of it.
I am seeing a lot of “political bickering is so childish” posts from the typical progressives on FB, and wondering how long that attitude hangs around.
I watched quite a bit of the 4 days of the convention. I hadn’t really watched a convention like that since 84. Watched Bush’s speech in 88 and then voted for Pat Buchanan in the primary. FWIW, wife felt President Trump went too long. I did too, but he got his points across. The detractors were out in full force all week, especially Friday. They only speak to the limited audience that can stand watching them. If we can just stay positive and let the PACS do the dirty work and keep the President Trump ads upbeat and positive, we win from the bottom of the ballot to the top.
FJB
Even going too long sends a message. Recently nicked in an @ss@sin@tion attempt, and going 90 minutes says “hale and hearty.” Not cowering in your Delaware estate fighting for your political life.
Always reliable Media Matters is the to find the tarnished lining …
Trump’s RNC speech was divisive, but front pages of mainstream media claimed it was “unifying” and “healing”