‘She Was Just Terrific’: Fox News Gushes Over the Democratic Convention
Hosts seem to forget who they are and praise Joe Biden and Michelle Obama
Several Fox News hosts seemed to forget who they work for, in all of the excitement of Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention.
The personalities on the right-wing cable network lavished unexpected praise on Democrats and their quadrennial nominating gathering.
Bret Baier, Brit Hume, and Martha MacCallum are among those who effused approval at the Democratic convention in Chicago on an evening in which former president Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, each electrified delegates with their own speeches.
The Fox News hosts embraced their performances, after years of having lobbed political invective at the couple when they occupied the White House.
“All right, the 44th president of the United States starting his speech, fired up and ready to go. And the common refrain, ‘Yes, we can’ changed into ‘Yes, she can’ in this hall,” Baier gushed. “Barack Obama essentially showing this crowd why he is still such a star inside the Democratic Party, but perhaps, perhaps, overshadowed by his wife, the former first lady Michelle Obama, who gave an amazing speech that got this crowd on their feet to say, ‘Do something,’ in refrain after refrain.
“She had some tough shots against the former president, but really was a call to action for this Democratic Party to come behind this new ticket saying America is ready for a new chapter,” he added.
MacCallum, Baier’s co-anchor on-site at the convention, agreed.
“Absolutely, Bret. She said hope is making a comeback, drawing a line from Kamala Harris, back to her husband’s campaign of hope,” she said of Michelle Obama’s remarks. “It was interesting, she said hope has been buried for too long in this country and it’s time to be hopeful again, kind of leapfrogging over the current Biden presidency with that moment, I thought. Then we heard a lot of discussion from President Obama about how people need to get back to being good to each other, being kind to each other, having integrity.”
The pair even praised the appearance of Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Yeah, he did a good job,” MacCallum said.
“It was really, really personable, really engaging. It showed Kamala Harris, the vice president, in a personal light that was funny and kind of said, ‘You know that laugh? I love that laugh,’” Baier added.
“Yeah, that was a good line,” MacCallum agreed.
“Taking something of a — obviously, some critics say a vulnerability of hers, turning it into an asset for him,” Baier said. “But tonight, this was the big rollout — the second night —and it was one in which these people in this hall were fired up.”
Longtime Fox News Brit Hume joined in the sudden outpouring of praise, lauding a man who just recently was the subject of ongoing impeachment coverage on their network.
He called President Biden “a really good-natured guy.”
“I’ve known him a long time,” Hume said. “I’ve never been a big fan of his necessarily. He’s a really good-natured guy. A lot of people have a lot of personal affection for him. And that persists.”
Of course, this being Fox News, the love couldn’t last, and Hume criticized the tribute that Democrats showered on Biden the night before when he said, “So, I think they were dying to give him a big sendoff, but they blew it.”
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