Comes Now The Tone Police

 

Sitting on the couch, watching the Democratic National Convention, my wife and I pondered the question, "How long until the Tone Police show up?"  Because it's never a question of "If".  Always "How long" and "How many" and "What venue", but never "If".

You know the Tone Police, right?

3...2...1...

The tone police
They live on cable teevee
The tone police
They're paid to shush and decree...

As it turned out, The Boston Globe was first out of the gate:

Democrats try to highlight joy at their convention, but some can’t hide their contempt for Trump

By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff

Which makes me wonder, is "Jim Puzzanghera" Michael Smerconish's burner name?

Back to the Globe:

CHICAGO — Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democrats say they are running a campaign of joy, one that her running mate, Tim Walz, has declared is “not about mocking ... not about name-callings.”

But when it comes to former president Donald Trump, some of the speakers at this week’s Democratic National Convention apparently did not get the memo. Instead, at times they’ve let their unbridled contempt for Trump shade some of their rhetorical sunshine, and those flares of harsh tones threaten to undercut the positive tone the party has projected since Harris became the nominee.

The Republican presidential nominee has been described from the stage as, among other things, “a career criminal,” “two-bit union-buster,” “one petty selfish man,” “a fraud, a philanderer, and a felon,” and “a five-time, draft-dodging coward.”...

Wait for the punchline.

Wait for it...

And while harsh in tone, the underpinnings of many of the Democratic convention attacks on Trump have been truthful, such as calling him a felon after he was convicted in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York hush-money trial.

Democrats nonetheless have taken those factual points and spun them further into insults this week.

The tone police
They're coming to denounce me
Oh no...

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