The party that constantly wants to fundamentally change America into a facsimile of a socialist European state apparently really loves America, according to the stacked panel of liberals on Friday’s Morning Joe. The MSNBC gaggle seriously suggested that the size of the flags at the Democratic National Convention showed a correlation to their love of America; further insisting that, by the end of the event, patriotism was “fully reclaimed” from Republicans.
After playing a couple of minutes of Harris’s speech from Night Four, co-host Joe Scarborough opined that “the convention went better than I've seen it go.” He went on to commend Harris for talking about how great America was, contrasted with how former President Trump described it:
And Willie, I must say, again, even in that line, that punch line right before you accept your party's nomination, she talked about the greatness of America. She talked about the very things that Republicans used to talk about, until they started running down America, saying what a horrible country it was. Donald Trump saying what a failed country it was, what a nation in decline it was.
She went there, and I thought, Willie, most importantly, the Democratic National Convention went there all week with chants of "USA," with flags waving, with one speaker after another going on and on about how great America was and how this could only happen in the United States of America.
Scarborough later cited a comment from reporter Bill Bradley, who compared the 2024 DNC to the 1984 Republican National Convention. “And joy and patriotism were combined in a way -- I heard Bill Bradley say yesterday, joy and patriotism combined in a way that he has not seen since Ronald Reagan in 1984, morning in America we took 49 states,” he touted.
Co-host Willie Geist remarked on how “the flags got bigger as the night went along” and inexplicably tied the size of the flags to how patriotic Democrats supposedly were. “So, everyone had a small flag in their hand to wave for the speech, and then they brought out the big flags for Kamala Harris' speech. Chants of ‘USA,’ patriotism fully reclaimed,” he declared.
The gush continued with Geist suggesting the energy in the arena rivaled that of when the Chicago Bulls was winning championships in the ‘90s:
This building has seen a lot, Joe and Mika. Michael Jordan won three championships in here. They've had some electric nights. But I would hazard to guess that this was right on par with some of those nights in terms of energy in the building, John Lemire. And you and I were watching. We got sort of the full scope from section 315 up there, looking down at this tableau of a party that has truly been energized.
Geist even dared to flash a sense of pride in how the Democratic Party had “transformed from its dread and despair that Joe Biden was too old and that they were going to lose to Donald Trump, and how are we going to deal with this guy for another four years; to a party now, at the end of this week, that truly feels, not in an overconfident way, truly feels it now has the upper hand.”
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe
August 23, 2024
6:03:40 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I thought the convention went better than I've seen it go. And Willie, I must say, again, even in that line, that punch line right before you accept your party's nomination, she talked about the greatness of America. She talked about the very things that Republicans used to talk about, until they started running down America, saying what a horrible country it was. Donald Trump saying what a failed country it was, what a nation in decline it was.
She went there, and I thought, Willie, most importantly, the Democratic National Convention went there all week with chants of "USA," with flags waving, with one speaker after another going on and on about how great America was and how this could only happen in the United States of America.
WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. In what Vice President Kamala Harris called in her speech the greatest country on Earth. You're right, Joe, being in this arena last night, the flags got bigger as the night went along. So, everyone had a small flag in their hand to wave for the speech, and then they brought out the big flags for Kamala Harris' speech. Chants of "USA," patriotism fully reclaimed.
A focus on the military, on veterans, also, last night. And her speech was -- this building has seen a lot, Joe and Mika. Michael Jordan won three championships in here. They've had some electric nights. But I would hazard to guess that this was right on par with some of those nights in terms of energy in the building, John Lemire.
And you and I were watching. We got sort of the full scope from section 315 up there, looking down at this tableau of a party that has truly been energized. And, in some ways, over the last month or so, transformed from its dread and despair that Joe Biden was too old and that they were going to lose to Donald Trump, and how are we going to deal with this guy for another four years; to a party now, at the end of this week, that truly feels, not in an overconfident way, truly feels it now has the upper hand.
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SCARBOROUGH: And joy and patriotism were combined in a way -- I heard Bill Bradley say yesterday, joy and patriotism combined in a way that he has not seen since Ronald Reagan in 1984, morning in America we took 49 states.
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