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I agree that Ms. Obama's speech was brilliant, moving and pitch-perfect. I thought, how could anyone criticize *that*?
And then I did something I NEVER do.
I turned on Fox News. The pundits all sneered and yawned and agreed with each other that her speech was mediocre at best. They leeringly noted that the speech was absent of policy points. They pointed out that she never talked about religion and they jumped on the fact that while she said they both went to university, she didn't say that they were "Ivy League" universities! (this was a big gotchya moment; as though this shameful secret was something she needed to hide...).
As the cherry on top, during their discussion Fox was doing split screen shots of the crowd. They were struggling to find the craziest looking dancing audience members wearing zany hats. They went out of their way to make it look less like a political convention and more like a stoner reggae-fest.
My point is, the large and pervasive world out there in Fox Land tells a much different story. Let's not lose sight of the fact that we have a long way to go.
