Tom Shales, sensitive guy

Tom Shales, "Styles Columnist", former t.v. critic of the Washington Post [bolding mine] is watching the Republican convention. He doesn't like the speakers.

With coverage limited to a tight and tidy hour, the time was basically divided between two speakers with wildly contrasting styles: Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), a turncoat who did a whoop-and-holler assault on the Democratic opposition candidates, and Vice President Cheney, a shoo-in for a second nomination and not in the least worried about it.

He thinks less of the audience.

Unfortunately for the Republicans, two very different men could speak in succession, but the crowd was the same for both, and to a large degree, the Republicans behaved like a bunch of yahoos who'd been bused in expecting "The Jerry Springer Show." Nothing makes a worse case for the Republican Party than seeing a mob of them congregating. This crowd makes your average suburban tailgate party look like a black-tie State Dinner.

Translation: Zell Miller hurt us with his appeal to blatant patriotism in a P.C. world where sensitive types like us are trying to defend other sensitive types whose feelings get hurt easy. You brutes!

Did no one tell him Jerry Springer was a Democrat? Or that Jerry Springer was a big draw at the Democrat convention? That Jerry Springer was a delegate? Or that those Jerry Spring show participants are the same kind of Democrats who voted for him for Mayor of Cincinnati? Or maybe Shales forgot that the Jerry Springer show is French owned?

The organizers must have reasoned that if they gave the networks few opportunities to interpret or challenge anything said or done by the "official" participants, that gave the propaganda a longer shelf life. Viewers would be unlikely to hear any rebuttal or analysis until the next morning.

You need us to interpret for you, you Yahoos! Admittedly, we kinda let any Democrat's go unchallenged, but they are sensitive guys like us. (Who are losing our asses at the polls.)

You suspect that what really bugs Shales is that the WashPo folks are no longer invited to the White House. The girlie men are no longer fashionable . But at least, Shales watched the convention.