To call Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ performance at the final night of the Democratic National Convention “tone-deaf” while also supporting the GOP ticket in 2020 requires some truly impressive cognitive dissonance.
Either that or it’s straw-grasping at something negative to say to divert attention from the fact that Joe Biden and the Democrats put on a powerful program that spoke to the seriousness of this election and the crises facing the nation, while also realizing there’s a need for humor in difficult times.
Regardless, that’s the angle Fox News went with in a hard-hitting story titled: Julia Louis-Dreyfus panned as ‘tone-deaf’ DNC host; compared to Clint Eastwood’s ’empty chair’ moment.
“It appears that being a Democratic National Convention emcee was not the right role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus,” observed Fox writer Joseph A. Wulfsohn.
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Wulfsohn based his analysis on Tweets from Republican comedy experts like these:
The #DemConvention is not a stand-up comedy show. It’s to teach us about the issues and tell us about the personalities who want to lead us.
These are serious times, and they deserve serious commentary. https://t.co/6bg30aqnio
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 21, 2020
Thank God this is the last night of the DNC. pic.twitter.com/nGr0ZAexo7
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 21, 2020
We did our own in-depth analysis by simply searching “Julia Louis-Dreyfus” on Twitter. It took about 8 seconds to realize there’s another review going around:
Whose bright idea was it to have Julia Louis Dreyfuss host the last night ? Whomever it was – give them a raise ! Brilliant move .
— CM RL (@4205CMRL) August 21, 2020
My god, I love Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.
— Quigley Provost (@ProvostQuigley) August 21, 2020
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss! Loving a little DNC humor
— Sharon Van Epps (@sharonvanepps) August 21, 2020
Okay Andrew Yang is not great for a straight man but I am here for Julia Louis-Dreyfuss being funny. It's been a lot of sorrow for three nights. Which is appropriate. But a lot.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 21, 2020
We’ll leave you with this:
Cam
Yes Republicans, I”m sure the super talent that is Scott Baio will do much better. LOL
Funny how Republicans will feign outrage at this, but of course kids in cages and 175,000 dead Americans don’t bother them at all.
nm4047
the death rate has most likely gone up by another 1000+ since you made your comment, but that seems to not bother the GOP trolls or commentators on Fox ‘News’
Mack
I thought she did a great job. Of course the Republicans were upset, hell they were upset because Trump isn’t anointed King.
PeteP
Don’t amplify their nonsense. We tend to allow the Republicans to frame the narrative. It was a great convention and an amazing Biden speech. Do a story on that.
barryaksarben
she shook the house DOWN. Hilarious
amanwithanedge
I Love her and I thought she did a great job!! BIDEN – HARRIS
Joshooeerr
Not only NOT tone deaf, but so precisely right for the times we live in that you can absolutely see why floundering Republicans and desperate Fox shills would be scrambling to dismiss it. As ever, they are pathetically transparent.
o.codone
Cam has become that problematic commenter who has something awful to say on every post and who gets into personal squabbles with other readers. If you’ve been around a while, as I have, you’ll remember how that guy Estabon1985 (something like that) basically burned Queerty to the ground with the same tactics. Multiple comments on the same post, always the first comment on the post, commenting on every single story, personalizing, getting into individual wars with others, creating a vortex which is *all* about and *only* about him. This guy is creating a very inhospitable environment here and dedicates way too much of his time to this site. Something’s wrong here. Queerty editors please take note, save yourselves, save your site.
Stefano
You have nothing constructive to say….Copy-paste blah blah blah copy-paste cam cam CAM…blah blah blah… you need a Dick in your ass condylomata.
Cam
In other words, the right wing troll account can’t dispute the comment from Julia Louie Dreyfus, and is obsessed with me
nm4047
Much the same as the Troll in the @hithouse, I mean whitehouse doesn’t or didn’t watch the DNC convention, which was very evident from his cap locks tweets soon after the conclusion. I question why these idiots find it necessary to comment about how they wasted 3 days and glad it’s finally over, why would they watch it in the first place?
ThinkPIease
Louis-Dreyfus Energy Services… look it up. Julia is another out of touch billionaire that uses democrats to get tax breaks. Why should we listen to her?
Cam
LOL!!!!
You have to love the desperation of the right wing trolls. They really need to deflect from how badly she nailed Trump, and the best they apparently have is the fact that a side of her family that she is not part of owns a company.
The other side of that, is that Republicans are so idiotic, they think that Democrats will automatically hate anybody who is wealthy. No precious, just the ones who don’t pay their taxes and mistreat their employees while looting their companies.
I’d say nice try, but this was just too bad.