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Fox News and CNN both declined to broadcast live former President Donald Trump‘s speech at the North Carolina GOP Convention dinner. MSNBC briefly aired footage of the speech, but viewers could not hear what the former president had to say, as MSNBC correspondent Ali Vitali provided commentary, speaking over him. CNN’s Brian Stelter tweeted that […]
Who’s Transformative Now?
You remember Barack Obama. He was still more than a year away from becoming president when journalists began using the “T” word to describe his significance. The word is
transformational. It’s the media’s favorite adjective when referring to Democratic politicians. Obama’s candidacy, Andrew Sullivan wrote in the fall of 2007, “is a potentially transformational one” because, “unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America finally past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all of us.” Obama himself said his presidency would be “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” He spoke of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” David Brooks believed Obama’s “perfectly creased pant” revealed that the freshman senator from Illinois would become president and that “he’ll be a very good president.�