MSNBC Anchors Yawn Over J.D. Vance’s ‘Flat’ VP Acceptance Speech
MSNBC anchors Joy Reid and Lawrence O’Donnell weighed in on Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s vice presidential acceptance speech Wednesday, noting they were underwhelmed by his remarks.
Kicking off the reaction, O’Donnell commented that even former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech years ago—which hardly anyone remembers—was “more exciting.”
“Stylistically, in terms of a convention speaker, I had to think back. I was trying to remember: what was Dick Cheney’s speech like?” the anchor of The Last Word said, eliciting laughter from some of his colleagues at the table. “I think it was a little more exciting. And I know Dan Quayle’s was better. I don’t know, you have to go back to…Richard Nixon, maybe, to find something as flat as that vice presidential speech.”