Kimberly Guilfoyle Shouts Unhinged RNC Speech at the Top of Her Lungs

[Steve Timko]

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 

[PGage]

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. 

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[Joe Hass]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 21:27 PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

(I see now that I bogarted Joe’s thread in the same NYT article, apologies).

This ain't the first time two people have come knocking with similar takes on the same topic, and I'm reasonably confident it won't be the last. No apology needed, good sir.

[Bob Jersey]

The CNN commentator in question was Alice Stewart, so it looks like you confused me with Timko again... I don't know what I can do about that...

PGage, in part:

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 [Steve] notes, this speech was a complete and total train wreck, I think even most Republicans agree. [Steve] 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.

B
 

[PGage]

Apologies Bob. 

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[M-D November]

No. 5 - Cocaine is a hell of a drug.