Night two of the Democratic National Convention featured speeches described as “amazing,” “terrific,” and “superb” – and that was from the Fox News coverage of the event.
Fox News hosts Bret Baier, Dana Perino, and others had glowing reactions to the night’s main speakers, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as well as Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. And while Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume seemed to agree with the accolades, he tempered his remarks about Michelle Obama with a reality check.
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“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 had an amazing speech that got this crowd on their feet,” Baier remarked after Tuesday night’s speeches at the DNC in Chicago.
“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.
“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,” Martha MacCallum noted.
The former first couple was greeted as royalty by the Democrat sycophants who hung on their every word. The former president rocked the Internet with a crude joke aimed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Meanwhile, his wife praised Vice President Kamala Harris as the “best” candidate for the job.
Harris’s husband earned high marks from the Fox News hosts for his speech extolling his wife before the adoring crowd.
“We shouldn’t overlook the speech before that. Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, was really, really personable, really engaging. It showed Kamala Harris, the vice president, in a personal light that was funny,” Baier said.
“I think it was a night of very good speeches,” Hume agreed.
“Emhoff, I think, was excellent, charming, affecting. Barack Obama was his old self, his familiar self with a superb sense of timing and cadence,” he said, adding that the 44th president’s speech was “way too long.”
Hume turned his sights on the “impressive” former first lady as he noted Democrats’ continued love affair with the woman they hoped would be running for office.
“I think the speech of the night was Michelle Obama,” he said. “She is an extraordinarily impressive woman, former first lady of the United States, you can see why members of the Democratic Party always kind of hope that maybe she’d step in and run for president after him in any of these past several cycles.”
But Hume went on to speak of a hypocritical note in her sermon.
“It does however, I have to say this, get a little rich when she starts talking about hope,” he told his colleagues.
“I can’t imagine why somebody who has had the life she’s had – a product of Princeton and Harvard Law School, an elite law firm, the first lady of the United States with a magnificent house on Martha’s Vineyard worth about $12 million and another one going up in Hawaii – why it is that she’s so hopeless all the time and has to have her hope revived,” Hume wondered.
“Apart from that, I thought she was just terrific,” he concluded.
Michelle Obama spoke of feeling dread over the last few years and peppered her speech with images of her childhood and her mother’s wisdom, saying at one point her parents “were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.”
Michelle Obama says her parents “were suspicious of folks who took more than they needed.”
She has a net worth of $70 million and lives in a mansion in Martha’s Vineyard. pic.twitter.com/Rdl6qphYPf
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During the Fox News segment, Perino also praised the Obamas as a “great partnership, and for this crowd and this room, it was a beautiful speech, and again, the oratory skills are incredible.”
“There’s one thing that Obama said though, the president,” she added.
“He said, ‘We don’t need four more years of bumbling and chaos.’ Now, he was talking about President Trump,” Perino noted, “but I imagine that President Trump was somewhere saying, ‘That’s exactly what I’ve been saying.’ He’s talking about the last four years. And if you look at what people are saying about how they feel about the direction of the country, the state of their finances, the debt that they feel, the inflation, all of those things, they want a change from that.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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