Chicago
A long string of clips from last night at the DNC. I haven’t watched most of them yet; just the tweets make me tear up. You may notice a theme.
I did watch the kids singing the anthem one. And the Maxine Waters one. She said “Fannie Lou” and I was a goner. Fannie Lou always makes me tear up. Always.
I did manage to stay dry-eyed for the one about snacks.
Might as well wish for a unicorn as to see any substantive reporting about this in NZ (fair enough, we barely cover our own political conferences), but skimming Bluesy last night and this morning it seems like most of the majors were pretty selective about live coverage of the speeches. Raphael Warnock for instance was covered only by CSPAN, despite being regarded as a great public speaker. The WaPo has disgraced itself with some truely dubious fact checking.