Matt Welch

No, nothing. I mean, having covered her in Iowa and on the campaign trail in 2020, I know a lot of journalists kind of struggled with how to comment on scenes like that. There are a lot of things that come to mind, but you had to speak in code when you talk to your readers about stuff like that. Yes, she was essentially... spinning these giant sandcastles of nothingness.

No, nothing. I mean, having covered her in Iowa and on the campaign trail in 2020, I know a lot of journalists kind of struggled with how to comment on scenes like that. There are a lot of things that come to mind, but you had to speak in code when you talk to your readers about stuff like that. Yes, she was essentially... spinning these giant sandcastles of nothingness.

No, nothing. I mean, having covered her in Iowa and on the campaign trail in 2020, I know a lot of journalists kind of struggled with how to comment on scenes like that. There are a lot of things that come to mind, but you had to speak in code when you talk to your readers about stuff like that. Yes, she was essentially... spinning these giant sandcastles of nothingness.

But it's impossible to convey the exact impression that she's giving while she goes off on these rants.

But it's impossible to convey the exact impression that she's giving while she goes off on these rants.

But it's impossible to convey the exact impression that she's giving while she goes off on these rants.

There were no jazz hands. That was a jazz hands moment.

There were no jazz hands. That was a jazz hands moment.

There were no jazz hands. That was a jazz hands moment.

We talked about this on our show. They're trying to get a piece of the spontaneous and sometimes obscene and sometimes off-color trolling style humor that exists on the Trump side. But the whole point of that is that you can't script it. You can't do your normal schtick and just add the word dick to it and get more traffic that way.

We talked about this on our show. They're trying to get a piece of the spontaneous and sometimes obscene and sometimes off-color trolling style humor that exists on the Trump side. But the whole point of that is that you can't script it. You can't do your normal schtick and just add the word dick to it and get more traffic that way.

We talked about this on our show. They're trying to get a piece of the spontaneous and sometimes obscene and sometimes off-color trolling style humor that exists on the Trump side. But the whole point of that is that you can't script it. You can't do your normal schtick and just add the word dick to it and get more traffic that way.

it's actually exponentially worse than what you were doing before, right? Because now you're just doing, it's the same old thing, but let's just add a useless obscenity that we ourselves look uncomfortable saying.

it's actually exponentially worse than what you were doing before, right? Because now you're just doing, it's the same old thing, but let's just add a useless obscenity that we ourselves look uncomfortable saying.

it's actually exponentially worse than what you were doing before, right? Because now you're just doing, it's the same old thing, but let's just add a useless obscenity that we ourselves look uncomfortable saying.

It's one thing if it just comes right out of you as part of a spiel that rolls off the tongue, but if you have a staff of people in whatever committee room coming up with, let's just call them a dick, That tells me that their messaging, that they have nothing left in the basket in terms of messaging ideas.

It's one thing if it just comes right out of you as part of a spiel that rolls off the tongue, but if you have a staff of people in whatever committee room coming up with, let's just call them a dick, That tells me that their messaging, that they have nothing left in the basket in terms of messaging ideas.

It's one thing if it just comes right out of you as part of a spiel that rolls off the tongue, but if you have a staff of people in whatever committee room coming up with, let's just call them a dick, That tells me that their messaging, that they have nothing left in the basket in terms of messaging ideas.

You know, the Democrats seem always to think that everything is a messaging problem. And if they just change a PR strategy, then it will change some kind of underlying reality that they're not in touch with. There was a great play by Joseph Heller, who is the author of Catch-22 called We Bomb the New Haven. And there was a character in it who says, we're going to bomb Constantinople off the map.

You know, the Democrats seem always to think that everything is a messaging problem. And if they just change a PR strategy, then it will change some kind of underlying reality that they're not in touch with. There was a great play by Joseph Heller, who is the author of Catch-22 called We Bomb the New Haven. And there was a character in it who says, we're going to bomb Constantinople off the map.