It’s ironic that MSNBC’s convention set shows Denver’s Union Station as its backdrop. President-elect McCain has repeatedly vowed to kill Amtrak and has consistently opposed funding for the kind of light rail and commuter rail that will use the station as its hub. The media, of course, never talk about this.
Aside from the view, the supposedly liberal MSNBC’s coverage has been a bust. Chris and Keith take time away from important speeches to give their own analysis, which is striking in its banality. So if you watched the networks last night, you missed the best speech of the evening, even better than Bill Clinton’s barn burner. It was John Kerry, who rightly feels wronged from 2004, and came out with a passion I wish we could have seen four years ago. That election might not have been so close that Ken Blackwell and Karl Rove could steal it in Ohio.
Kerry said:
The stakes could not be higher, because we do know what a McCain
administration would look like: just like the past, just like George
Bush. And this country can’t afford a third Bush term. Just think: John
McCain voted with George Bush 90 percent of the time. Ninety percent of
George Bush is just more than we can take.
Never in modern
history has an administration squandered American power so recklessly.
Never has strategy been so replaced by ideology. Never has extremism so
crowded out common sense and fundamental American values. Never has
short-term partisan politics so depleted the strength of America’s
bipartisan foreign policy.
Be sure to watch it now on YouTube:
I agree with you, Jon. Kerry’s speech was wonderful. MSNBC’s coverage was abysmal – self-congratulatory and pompous. Thank God for CSPAN.
Thanks for writing this Jon. I knew I could count on getting the better story from you.