UNBELIEVABLE – AT 9:55 P.M. ET:  Little by little, the American media is slipping into its usual mode, as promoter of the Democratic Party.  I was just watching Carol Costello's program on CNN.  Costello is a hardened liberal and should simply say so, just as Sean Hannity makes no bones about being a conservative.  But liberals very rarely admit their prejudices.  It's part of their condescending attitude toward their audience.  Those peasants would never understand, would they?  Yeah, they would.

Costello's show tried to extend the narrative about Melania Trump borrowing some lines from Michelle Obama, without attribution.  As I said yesterday, it was a serious mistake, and the campaign has erred by not confronting it directly, apologizing, and showing class.  Okay, blunder.  But it wasn't World War III, yet you'd think it was by watching CNN this morning.  It was their main story – not terrorism, not the murder of police officers, not our weak economy.  Melania and her few sentences – that was the headline.

I will be comparing coverage of this convention with coverage of the Democratic Convention next week.  What do you think I'll find?  Don't hold your breath.

It isn't just the news media that's gone into vulgar mode.  The entertainers have gone berserk.  Bill Maher has said that Donald Trump's wonderful, accomplished sons "look like the date rapist in every after school special ever."  I hope an apology is forthcoming.

Joy Behar, another genius, compared Rudy Giuliani to Mussolini, a particular slur because Rudy is Italian-American.

A film critic called the Republican convention the "world's largest lynch mob."

The coastal elites have raised the rhetoric a few notches since calling Ronald Reagan "an amiable dunce" or a warmed-over movie actor. 

July 20,  2016