The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour could hardly contain their excitement over Sen. Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate speech denouncing all things Donald Trump. Host Amna Nawaz claimed it “inspired” people, a point echoed by Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart, who labeled it “inspiring.” Meanwhile, New York Times columnist David Brooks praised Booker for being “upbeat” in contrast to Trump’s “gloom and carnage.”
Nawaz began, “We saw Senator Cory Booker take to the Senate floor in a record-breaking speech that he said, his office said, inspired thousands of people to call into his office.”
She also wondered, “You had hundreds of millions of people liking and commenting online. And we also now have more than 1,000 planned protests coming up this weekend against President Trump in cities across the country. Is there a…
