Right Wing Media Universally Declare DNC a Failure, Obama Speech a Flop
If you only pay attention to right wing media, you probably came away with the conviction that the Republican convention was an unparalleled triumph, while the Democratic convention was a dismal failure. Seriously, folks — that’s what they are all shouting in unison today.
The Internet’s dumbest right wing blogger, Jim Hoft, leads the way with a mind-numbingly stupid post: DNC 2012 Recap: Clint Eastwood Was Right. Hoft doesn’t actually say what Eastwood was “right” about, of course.
But here’s a collection of newspapers from swing states that show how the DNC and Obama’s speech played in the real world, and surprise! It’s nothing like the disaster the wingnuts and beltway pundits are trying to imagine it was.
One example: