Never Mind the Mainstream Media Spin – Trump’s RNC Speech Was a SMASH HIT

CLEVELAND — Strange and terrible things can happen at these supposedly “too-scripted,” “glorified infomercials” we call political conventions. Backstage in 2012 at the Republican convention in Tampa, none of the party apparatchiks had any idea what Clint Eastwood would say when he politely requested a 15-minute slot that had been reserved for others. Great, said Republican handlers. Then Eastwood requested a chair. Er, okaaaaay, said the RNC suits.

Then Eastwood began talking to the chair. On stage. In front of tens of millions of voters. Backstage, according to journalists who were there, a leading RNC official leaned over and vomited into a garbage can.

But conventions can spur spontaneous magic, too. Sarah Palin was a completely unknown quantity when her speech instantly defibrillated the clogged arteries of John McCain’s tired campaign on Sept. 3, 2008. Four years ago in Charlotte, Joe Biden veered off the Teleprompter and started riffing. Far from coming across as an ill-timed dose of Crazy Uncle Joe, though, it was worked beautifully and helped make for a winning convention.

Here in Cleveland, at the Huntington Convention Center where thousands of political journos were holed up half a mile from “the Q” — the Quicken Loans Arena where the speakers thundered and the delegates herded — the hacks took turns Monday morning gazing down at the urban farm located right on the property, within sight of the Cleveland Browns’ football stadium.

What would the Republicans create? Painful, long-lasting welts or a delicious treat so smooth you can spread it on toast?Just outside what figured to be the most fractious — the only fractious — party convention in at least 40 years, 700,000 bees were swarming. Immediately the Hall of Hacks shifted into a state of Advanced Metaphor Alert. Bees can come together to make sweet, irresistible honey. Or they can just go bonkers stinging everyone in sight.

According to an NBC News poll, Donald Trump was only one point behind Hillary Clinton as the convention kicked off. But as things got rolling Monday the Fifth Avenue insurgent was facing a conservative counter-insurgency: having failed to drive through a Rules Committee change that would have allowed Trump’s delegates to vote for someone other than Trump, last-ditchers joined a rebellion led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee to force a roll-call vote, instead of a voice vote, that would have at least forced everyone present to go on the record with their position on Trump.

This amounted to Marty trying to give a noogie to Biff. It didn’t work. “Chaos!” said NBC News. “Chaos!” said NPR. “Open discord and rebellion!” said CNN. But the whole thing was over in a few minutes. This wasn’t a prison riot, it was grumbling. RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, like an exceedingly polite and buttoned-down bulldozer, blithely eliminated the opposition and pushed on.

A day later, all that was left of the #NeverTrump vanquished was….a cocktail party. Influential anti-Trump conservative journos — nationally-known columnists, leading magazine editors — listened as officers of the group Better for America promised improbably that they could whip up a complete national political campaign in “a matter of days” and that prominent financial backers sitting on the bench were eager to charge on the field for… a third or fourth or fifth party candidate. We nodded and sipped our rosé and nibbled our shrimp cocktail but Dump Trump movement was dead without knowing it. It was like the ghost ball in “The Shining.”

Back at the Q there was no doubt about whose party this was. Monday night featured one blistering speech after another, most of them attacking Hillary Clinton as a dishonest, untrustworthy, corrupt and failed leader. Just a day after a cop hater gunned down three police officers in Baton Rouge, just four days after an ISIS-loving fanatic ran down some 300 people with a truck in Nice, just 11 days after another radical killed five cops in Dallas, just 36 days after another Islamist freak murdered 49 people at an Orlando disco, fear of real, actual, blood-in-the-streets and flattened-strollers chaos was on the minds of every American except Democratic party fanboys lost in their own fog of denial. They keep nervously reassuring one another that the Summer of Terror isn’t.

Delegates stand and cheer at the end of the Republican National Convention.

“The vast majority of Americans today do not feel safe,” said ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a barnburner of a speech. “They fear for their children. They fear for themselves. They fear for our police officers, who are being targeted.” Hei praised the police in the hall and outside it, crying, with genuine plaintive gratitude, “When they come to save your life, they don’t ask if you are black or white. They just come to save you!” He referred to the stark and utterly undeniable poisoning of race relations under President Obama and asked, “What happened — what happened to there’s no black America, there’s no white America, there is just America? What happened to it? Where did it go?”

Liberals — both the admitted kind and the pretend neutrals who work at “unbiased” major media outlets — had been quietly dismissive of the evening so far, as one speaker after another failed to find his footing, spoke too long, or allowed their rhetoric to get ahead of the facts. Plus: What was Scott Baio doing here? But now Giuliani was raining haymakers on Obama-Clintonism. The mewling, apologetic, America-last mindset about how we must try to “empathize with” (as Mrs. Clinton once put it) underprivileged peoples who just happen to be mass murderers was being confronted forthrightly. The HRC-BHO outlook was getting skewered, filleted and barbecued.

Liberals were getting nervous. First they got on social media and called Giuliani crazy. Then they went quiet, realizing it was counterproductive to draw attention to what he’d said. Their best bet was to hope that some other jingling cat toy would roll along the carpet for America to bat around.

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