What Cruz-Out-of-Control Says About Trump's Convention
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The TV ratings for the Republican National Convention are down (see: “No Bump for Trump as GOP Convention Ratings Plummet”), and it’s not exactly a surprise. As a guy who’s been watching the RNC this week up-close-and-personal at the Quicken Loans Arena, aka the Q, in Cleveland, I keep on scratching my head over some of the programming decisions made for the Republicans’ big infomercial. And unlike you, the home viewer, I can’t tune out or click away, so I’m seeing it all.
Wednesday night’s Ted Cruz-related fireworks aside (more on that in a moment), the big show put on by reality-TV veteran Donald Trump has often been, to put it charitably, less than compelling.
Take, for instance, Michelle Van Etten, one of the speakers who took the stage during the primetime block. Billed as the head of something called Women In Business For Trump, she is, quite simply, a dreadful speaker who kept on fumbling her lines, misreading the teleprompter and gesticulating entirely out of sync with her words. She came off like the sort of well-meaning moron that Catherine O’Hara would play in a Christopher Guest mockumentary. Oh, and by the way, her business expertise? “Trump backer speaking at RNC, billed as boss of 100,000, employs zero workers,” per The Guardian.
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