So, this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind when I inquired what the Apprentice producers were like, in terms of style and competence (I see now that I bogarted Joe’s thread in the same NYT article, apologies).
As Bob notes, this speech was a complete and total train wreck, I think even most Republicans agree. Bob makes the “audience of One” analysis, which is no doubt partly true, but it is more true that it is a speech with an “audience of Two”. I guess I can understand why she wants to please her lover’s father, and stick it to her ex-husband, but I don’t understand why any even half way decent professional television producer would have let that speech go on the air. She has had some effective jabs at California liberals in the last, but they are from the perspective of a cool and detached Uber sophisticate who is bitching that grungy radicals ruined glamorous San Francisco (there is actually a big market for that view in The City). But instead she Inexplicably gave a red meat speech from the POV of a fundamentalist Christian, which she is just incapable of pulling off. She was screwing her lover before she divorced Newsom (getting impregnated before the divorce was final) and started screwing her current Trump lover before his divorce was final from his wife. Which, whatever, but nobody who knows who she is is going to believe she is some born again Christian. The speech does require a live arena crowd foaming at the mouth, but even with that I doubt she could find the applause lines. This was a third rate opera singer trying to sing a Kid Rock song in an empty hall with no music. I admit my obvious bias, but forget the content, this was the opposite of the speeches at the DNC last week, which were so well suited and calibrated to both the medium and the messengers. On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:41 AM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > I watched the speech and it didn't work for me. I am trying to list the > reasons why. > No. 1 a speech like that needs an audience to react. Guilfoyle's > shortcomings as an orator are amplified by the echoes of an empty > auditorium. > No. 2 is that she lacked sincerity. Think of all the great civil rights > speeches where the speaker brought experience and pain to the speech. I got > screaming from her speech. > No 3 is that she just doesn't have the vocal timbre for that kind of > speech. > No. 4 is she loses credibility with a face that has had at least one > too-many plastic surgeries. > The article says FOX News cut away from it before the end, going to an > interview with Jeanine Pirro. A CNN commentator said it was a speech for > and audience of one. > > > > > > https://www.thedailybeast.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-shouts-unhinged-rnc-speech-at-the-top-of-her-lungs > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzkH9U82b6KJ3%3DZEviTxShAFg00vS_E%3DG4zaxaDxGm-6g%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAH5J8yzkH9U82b6KJ3%3DZEviTxShAFg00vS_E%3DG4zaxaDxGm-6g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLb6N%3DoK%2B_F_D8LNNNeGh2QQNvg34Ekq%2BfmEFYPacrYEw%40mail.gmail.com.
