This morning's mainstream media coverage of Day 1 of the GOP convention is pretty much uniformly negative. Which of course would have been the case regardless of how Day 1 at the GOP convention actually went. This is who our fake, mainstream news media is and what they do.
If you're a real Republican, and thus not a #NeverTrump person, the good news for you to remember is that the coverage of Donald Trump's campaign by our fake mainstream news media has been pretty much uniformly wrong for the last 13 months. This morning is no exception.
To understand this, we need to think in terms of communications and persuasion and how those two factors relate to the average independent American voter, not how they relate to the LA/NY/DC political establishment Axis. To those in the Axis, the speech by the mother of one of the Benghazi victims was "unseemly". Chris Matthews offered that to him, this speech "ruined" the GOP's otherwise fine day. (Always so great to know that Mr. Mathews is looking out for the GOP's best interests.)
But the average independent American voter more likely saw a mother still in mourning over the loss of a child - something no mother ever completely overcomes - who blames Hillary Clinton for his death, a view justified by several hundred unanswered requests from the U.S. Ambassador for stronger security. So while the speech didn't impress Mathews or any of his fellow Axis inhabitants, it was likely pretty effective communications and persuasion.
Many Axis fake media outlets are also wailing about the "tone" of Day 1, which focused on the failure of the Obama Administration - including Hillary when she was Sec. State - to keep America safe. The terms "mean spirited" and "unfair" are being tossed in tutt-tutting tones out of the Axis echo chamber.
But the average American independent voter has been treated in recent weeks by the same Axis media outlets to endless, graphic coverage of brutal attacks on average Americans and deadly assaults on police all over the country. Many of them no doubt wonder why in the hell it is that this President and his administration are seemingly helpless to stem the tide of violence, or worse, appear to be supporting it. These voters no doubt found themselves spending much of the evening nodding in agreement with Rudy Giuliani and the other featured speakers.
Then there's Melania Trump. While she was speaking, the Axis inhabitants were no doubt sneering and mocking her, but the average independent voters most likely saw a composed and attractive woman, speaking eloquently in what is to her a foreign language (she is fluent in five languages) from her heart about her family. Very effective, at the time, from a communications and persuasion standpoint.
That of course has been ruined this morning by the apparent lifting of two sentences from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. Most likely, this was the work of a careless - or possibly devious - speechwriter, but no matter: the apparent plagiarism gives the media Axis the opportunity to shift the focus away from what was otherwise a very effective piece of communications and persuasion.
Finally, the fake Axis media have focused a lot of coverage on the last-ditch effort early in the day by the #NeverTrump minions to disenfranchise the 14 million GOP primary voters who turned out in record numbers to make Trump the party's nominee. While inhabitants of the establishment were feverishly focused on all of that, the average independent voter couldn't care less. To the average American, that's all just the kind of insider crap they're so sick of hearing about in the first place.
Bottom line: Day 1 was actually an overall pretty good day for Trump and the GOP from the only standpoint that matters, and that is convincing enough of the average independent voters out there to vote for the GOP nominee in November. If the next three days go as well as Day 1, Trump will get the polling bounce he needs out of this convention, no matter how hard the fake Axis media tries to spin things otherwise.
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