Video: Republican convention, day 2 recap
Day two of the Republican National Convention marked the first big night of speeches and celebration for the GOP, following a subdued opening day when elected officials and journalists alike turned their attention to Hurricane Gustav, which was bearing down on the New Orleans area.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, who earlier this year was a presidential aspirant himself, held center stage to deliver a condensed biography of soon-to-be Republican nominee Sen. John McCain and to offer folksy praise of McCain's pick as vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
The night was also notable for an address by Sen. Joe Lieberman, now an independent but not so long ago a Democrat--in fact, he was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2000.
President Bush, meanwhile, addressed the Republican throng by video.
Get a fuller picture of Tuesday night's event in this video with Katie Couric of CBS News:
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She followed up by shaming the internet, pointing out how loosey-goosey you can be when doing a webcast, as if you can waste people's time on the 'net, unlike on the networks... I beg to differ--I kept waiting to hear a pundit who accurately, compellingly presents the conservative side, or at least some clips of the action. How about that prayer she was afraid to interrupt? I'd like to have seen it, too.
Katie would never do a SNIDE of an islamic prayer (or live long to tell of it, after Danish cartoon, Rushdie -esque happenings). But Christians, who build this nation, are always the boobs to the dying mainline media. It is sad it must die; my wife worked 9 years for local liberal paper, and their impressive physical plant is in the hands of people who would rather watch it contract and die than stop their front-page editorializing, begin carry Rush Limbaugh or even academic conservatives in equally prominent places, or hire staff that is less than 90 percent liberal, democratic-voting, and materialist-non-church-attending ... I went to experience Terry Sciavo dying on Easter day. When I read the AP account of Easter Day happenings in Florida papers next day, I didn't recognize the event--They under-represented crowd wildly ("30 protestors"--I saw 250 at least) misrepresented Schindler family statements (Concern that protestors have a good easter turned into "asked protestors to go home"--Whereas I attended MASS (as non Catholic) with family in protest enclosure; We were welcomed, and only people asked to LEAVE were drive-by media with their fuzzy microphones in preists face during mass--"We respected your (press enclosure) space; would you please respect ours?" And, likewise, AP and others interviewing disabled people & parents of kids in similar physical condidtion, NEVER RUNNING interviews, and calling Schindler-Schiavo "on life support..."
I took photos and recorded interviews, placed on 760 meg disc. My coverage IS NEWS; mainline media coverage is EDITORIALIZING.
But the Bible says we need the Holy Spirit and God's help to even SEE his view of things, and I hope CBS and Katie ask before their empire sinks beneath the waves.