{"id":13536,"date":"2020-08-21T17:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13536"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T00:26:15","slug":"nations-nicest-guy-v-its-meanest-our-2020-dnc-week-in-review-bradcast-8212020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13536","title":{"rendered":"Nation’s Nicest Guy v. Its Meanest — Our 2020 DNC Week-in-Review: ‘BradCast’ 8\/21\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: A bunch of longtime, cynical, dyed-in-the-wool progressive political journalists all seem to be largely in agreement today. The 2020 Democratic National Convention — which, one week ago, nobody had any clue what it would look like — was a stunning success on several surprising levels, starting, but not ending with, both Presidential and Vice Presidential acceptance speeches that each exceeded expectations. [Audio link to full show follows below.<\/i>]\n

It was an often stark and somber week of uncut, commercial-free, two-hour-a-night politicking which, due to the pandemic, had to be invented from scratch by some remarkably creative minds. The result — according to our guests HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b>, opinion journalist at Salon<\/a> and Hullabaloo<\/a>, and longtime progressive media critic ERIC BOEHLERT<\/b> of PressRun<\/a> — was a remarkably cohesive and often moving narrative. The Democrats appear to have successfully framed an epic — and even easy to understand — election match-up featuring The Nicest Guy in the Nation versus its Meanest<\/i>.<\/p>\n