PBS’s coverage of Night Four of the Republican National Convention again featured the Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart holding up the liberal end of the political analysis. (David Brooks of the New York Times was the ostensible conservative on the panel, but as usual they often agreed with each other.)
Capehart spent most of the four nights of the convention whining that the speakers weren’t displaying the promised “unity,” and on Night Four declared Donald Trump’s 90-minute acceptance speech “hateful.”
After all the distress seeping out of the Democratic camp regarding President Biden’s fitness to run again, Capehart still carried a torch for the president, saying at 9:06 p.m. “We’re in July. This is not September, there is time to pull things back, but it seems like the party has made up its mind. They want him out.”
At 10:08…
