by publius
One big problem with being in Denver is that I have no idea what the media are actually saying. But after wandering around all day, I’ve been watching MSNBC for the past hour or so, and it’s just amazing how much coverage Hillary Clinton is getting. It’s not just coverage, they’re going on endlessly about the “divide” and “angry supporters” and what not.
Mind-boggling. That’s certainly not the mood on the ground — people are pretty psyched from what I can tell. Is this how the media coverage has been throughout?
UPDATE: Ok, this is just getting crazy. I mean, I know Hillary is up tonight, so she’s going to be discussed. But this manufactured bitterness business is simply out of control.
UPDATE 2: New least favorite word — “Millennials.”
NPR is loving the HRC dead-enders. even though the reporters are subtly mocking them, they just can’t get enough of them on the air.
Cleek reminds me that I didn’t turn the radio back on after getting a phone call. Somehow I wasn’t missing the NPR coverage.
I’m trying MSNBC. Chuck Todd seems to be pushing back against the Hillary narrative from the rest of the media. But I’m sure I’ll be on straight C-Span later. Too many idiot pundits.
Yes this has been the media coverage throughout. You would think Clinton had not been supporting Obama since her concession. They are determined to stir up disunity where it isn’t there.
“Chuck Todd seems to be pushing back against the Hillary narrative from the rest of the media.”
he sure is, but its like trying to hold the ocean back with a shovel.
god, i hope Hillary goes out there tonight rips McCain’s balls off, and ends all this discussion about disunity. this is her moment to make herself look more magnanimous than she has ever had before, i only hope she takes it.
Mike Barnicle on MSNBC said that the most important bit of last night was Sasha’s “Hi, Daddy!”
Hillary’s lovely husband:
“Suppose for example you’re a voter. And you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?”
Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”
my. god. what a fnckin asshole that guy is.
Pat Buchanan had some argument for why it would be a huge mistake for Hillary to attack McCain, but I didn’t catch it. I think I’m going to have to give up on MSNBC soon.
CNN cannot stop reporting on the divisions in the Democratic party, aided in no small part by the comments of Gloria Borgia, Paul Begala, and James Carville. The number of really nasty posts on websites is also up. I’m wondering if this is the work of trolls trying to sow discord among Democrats.
Cleek, it’s being discussed in “Bring the Noise”.
Yes — the conflict between Obama and Clinton is the dominant narrative in the media coverage. They love this stuff!
It has been helped by shameless media whores like James Carville and Paul Begala, who have gone on and on about the trouble, the rage, the slaps-in-the-face, etc., to anyone who will listen. Of course, by fueling this narrative, they are stepping all over Obama’s message and taking away precious air time from the Democrats’ message. Hard to tell whether they are doing it with Clinton’s sanction or not (hey, look! plausible deniability!)
I am in Denver too, and I agree – conflict is NOT in the air, and this is NOT the way things actually feel.
What a load of horsecrap.
Is this how the media coverage has been throughout?
Yes.
In fact, it’s pretty much all they talk about.
Look at it this way, they’re giving Hillary Clinton a perfect buildup to completely turn it around.
[I hope!]
Neither Carville nor Begala gives a damn about the Democratic Party or the success of its policies. I don’t think that’s true of Clinton.
“Is this how the media coverage has been throughout?”
Yep. To be fair, though, someone’s got to maintain the prevailing media narrative.
Chris Matthews just compared the Clinton-Obama “tensions” to Northern Ireland.
Of course via cleek I see Sam Youngman’s doing his part as well. (And by extension… Yes, I mean you, cleek! 😉
Having been home sick with the flu Monday and Tuesday, I can dutifully report that the so-called Clinton-Obama feud has dominated television coverage in a shocking way — as if that’s the only story in Denver.
Chuck Todd on MSNBC, getting some anchor duties for the first time, has been fighting that but not very successfully. Even Tom Brokaw seems to think this is a big story.
MSNBC’s daytime coverage has been heavy on interviews from Denver and every interviewee — delegate, party offical, governor, etc. — gets asked about the party infighting. I wish somebody like Ed Rendell would get on and set the record straight.
FOX and that jerk Chris Wallace is reveling in it — what’s better than disunity in the Democratic Party for them?
I’m surprised I haven’t seen any presidential historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin commentating. After all, we are on the eve of the nomination of the first black candidate for president in American history.
That’s what is surprising to me — no one amplifying on the historic nature of this event.
KCinDC: “Mike Barnicle on MSNBC said that the most important bit of last night was Sasha’s ‘Hi, Daddy!'”
I understood what Barnicle was saying. If a big part of the convention is to make Obama seem like a regular American, what’s more human than your little girl getting excited to see you? When the Obamas are interacting, I think it’s always pretty powerful stuff.
(OT — My wife awoke me from a nap in a panic. Everything on our computer has been enlarged to about double its size — the screen, the type, the icons. How do I get it back to normal? Thanks.)
My very unscientific hunch is that Begala and Carville are loyal not to Hillary but to Bill. Hillary will strike the right notes tonight. Her position in the Senate and the party depends on it. Bill is a total loose canon. I’ll be on tenterhooks Wednesday when he speaks.
thought i’d try PBS, to maybe escape from the hand-wringing over the supposed legions of Clinton dead-enders.
instead, i get 15 minutes (so far!) of solid concern trolling from Jim Lehrer and Gwen Eiffel. oh noes, what does it mean that not everybody is happy with the primary results! oh noes! division!
i don’t know if Bob Somerby came up with the idea of the media’s reliance on the soothing narrative, but he sure is completely right about it.
My wife awoke me from a nap in a panic. Everything on our computer has been enlarged to about double its size — the screen, the type, the icons. How do I get it back to normal?
click the desktop, hold Ctrl and roll your mouse wheel.
Cleek,
Sorry but I need you to be more specific. Desktop? I can handle “hold Ctrl.” And do you mean I need to literally roll the wheels on the back of my mouse?
thought i’d try PBS
C-SPAN. The only way to go.
(i assume you’re on Windows)
either close all your applications or minimize them all, so that all you see are your icons on whatever you have for your desktop background. click somewhere in there.
the hold the “Ctrl” key, and, yes, roll your mouse wheel back and forth.
on Vista (haven’t tried XP, don’t have a Mac), that will change the icon and text size.
FYI, this also works in IE and FireFox to change the text size.
“OT — My wife awoke me from a nap in a panic. Everything on our computer has been enlarged to about double its size — the screen, the type, the icons. How do I get it back to normal? Thanks.”
First of all, what OS do you use?
Second of all, try a restart. If that doesn’t work, try it again.
Third of all, if it’s Windows XP, try either right-clicking on the desktop, going to “properties” and adjusting your screen resolution, or going to your control panels, finding “Display,” and adjusting your screen resolution.
Fourth, learn more about your computer. Fifth, throw out your computer — no, ship it to me — and buy a new one. Repeat as necessary.
Or trying running your computer under hot water, and seeing if it will shrink.
Sooner or later, one of these solutions will probably work.
Cleek,
No luck.
It is Windows.
bedtime: As Gary said, right-click on the desktop (not on any icon or text or anything). Select properties from the pop-up menu.
You should get a dialog box with the title “Display Properties”. (There’s another way to get this if this doesn’t work for you.) Select the tab called “Settings”. In the middle-left section of what you’re looking at should be a box titled “Screen resolution” that Gary mentioned. Adjusting the slider rightward should make things smaller again. You might get asked if you want to keep the new settings…
Windows XP? try this:
click the Start Button, select Control Panel, choose “Display”, click the “Appearance” tab. at the bottom you should see a “Font Size” option – set that to “Normal”.
cleek, will Font Size normal change icon sizes too? (Too lazy to check.)
bedtime: if you don’t see Control Panel directly on your start menu, try selecting Settings, then Control Panel.
I hereby revise my earlier opinion on Sebelius. It wasn’t just that the State of the Union response is nearly impossible to do well. She’s that way in front of a supportive crowd as well. I’m glad she’s not the VP nominee.
yeah, Sebelius was a total drag.
she should be announcing train arrivals.
Thanks, guys. Computer issues solved — we think our 9-year-old triggered them.
JanieM, your instructions were spot-on for a computer illiterate like myself. Actually my wife worked this through — it wasn’t until getting married that I truly understood the phrase “my better half.”
While she was “fixing” the computer, I took a bath to sooth my flu-ridden bones and heard Chris Matthews declare, “This is now Barack Obama’s convention.” So if Chris says it so, it must be so.
After coming out of the tub, Matthews observed, “Mark Warner just gave a speech dedicated entirely to getting him elected to the United States Senate.”
Ouch.
Another quick observation:
If last night was overkill on Biden reaction shots, it already looks like tonight will be overkill on Bill Clinton shots.
Clinton’s speech makes me forget all about the deadenders. Shoot, I’m not even convinced they exist anymore, other than as a McCain wet dream. Good balance of her accomplishments in the campaign vs. the importance of keeping John McCain as far as possible from the White House.
New least favorite word — “Millennials.”
Agreed. And new least favorite correspondent — Luke Russert. What a waste of space.