DNC's Hollywood Love Affair Turns Convention Into Glee Musical & COVID Insurance Victory In Missouri

Via America's Lawyer: The Democratic National Convention kicked off this week, and many viewers were left stunned by more than just the socially-distant virtual format. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss. Also, a federal judge in Missouri ruled that a group of hair salons can move forward with their lawsuit against their insurance companies over business interruption claims. Mike Papantonio explains more.

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The DNC convention kicked off this week and it turns out the social distance virtual format wasn't what viewers found most bizarre about it. Take, take a look at what came after Michelle Obama's keynote speech.

*singing*

Joining me now to hopefully make sense of this is Farron Cousins from the trial lawyer magazine. Farron, I, this was like a flashback to me to 2016 when the Hillary campaign had all these celebrities, I don't know what it is with the DNC and celebrities, but they had all these celebrities lip sync to the fight song.

Yeah.

And everybody, the Twitter was crazy the day after. What was this? What was it about? You know, as I look at this, it's looked like it, I think of it's almost Comedy Central has more material to work with here. And I don't know what the folks that put this together were thinking. I didn't hear any policy discussion, did you?

No.

But what was your take on it? I mean, just look at Twitter. It's not just me saying this. This is a broad, broad concern of people who actually sat through this.

Right. I mean, you, you, you have to come forward. You have to put something out there for people to latch onto because Joe Biden's been, been in hiding almost since April. So we don't know where he stands on things. We don't know what his plans are. This was your big night, night number one, come out, give us something other than platitudes at a time when this country economically, socially, everything is falling apart and they give us this weird song out of nowhere.

Well, it wasn't just the song. It was like, it was like almost the Disney folks, Disney inc. put a bunch of folks together and mangled this aimless DNC convention, it was like a comical montage of Glee mixed with LA LA land mixed with Frozen, maybe PBS electric company. There was no discussion about, I mean, you're, you're, this is the opening. Talk about healthcare. Talk about economy. Talk about trade. Talk about jobs. Issues that serious grownups, that grownups are concerned about and there was no, there was none of that discussion. Bernie Sanders, thank God for Bernie Sanders, but had it not been for Bernie Sanders, who should be the nominee.

Yeah.

Had it not been for him, it would have been a total bust to me.

But, but was last night not a perfect metaphor for the entire democratic party and what they've become? Because there is no, except for Bernie Sanders, for the most part, discussion of policy. You know, what did they do last night they, or the first night? They brought out all these Republicans to say that, hey, we're on the same side as these people, we're going to finally play nice. They're never going to play nice. We're going to be good to the banks. We're going to be good to everybody. Nothing's gonna fundamentally change.

Well, okay. The very fact you had Republicans on stage. What does that say about Biden? It says he's still a centrist, right?

Yep.

Wall Street loves Harr, they love Harris. They love Biden because he goes, this is nothing different than a centrist campaign. Look, the thing that set me over the edge, I think is this love affair that the DNC has with Hollywood. They need Hollywood's approval, they need to have these, it's almost like these childlike thinkers focused on the idea that if we put Hollywood out there, the rest of America is with us. It's almost like they haven't looked at the polls to see that most of America doesn't give a darn about what Hollywood thinks.

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