It sped past me when I heard it last night, but
Slate's William Saletan was on the job:
Quote:
The real prime-time hour on Monday night opened with a remembrance of Sept. 11 by Haleema Salie, who told the delegates she had lost her daughter and son-in-law on that awful day. Oh, and one more family member—"my unborn grandchild."
Whoa! This is exactly the kind of speaker whose words are gone over with a fine-tooth comb by the presumptive presidential nominee's speech reviewers. Did they suggest changing the "unborn child" language? If they didn't—or if they did, and Salie resisted, and they relented—isn't this an acknowledgment that most people are going to think of the human fetus this way, whether or not leaders of the Democratic Party like it?
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Fair point.
Look for 3-hour coverage of this on the next installment of the No-Spin-Zone, after O'Reilly exhausts his supply of invective for John Kerry's wife. My guess on the over/under is, say, Sunday.
Gattigap
