Kimberly Guilfoyle screaming encapsulated the Fox News feel of Night 1 of the Republican National Convention

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Guilfoyle, the former Fox News personality and Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend who feuded with Kamala Harris two decades ago, trended on Twitter Monday night after screaming out her speech. "Speaking grandly to an empty auditorium, Guilfoyle delivered a speech more fit for an arena full of screaming supporters than the eerily empty venues of the Covid-19 era," says  Katelyn Burns. "But one of her central themes — and a common one on Fox News — was a familiar one: accusing Democrats of being 'socialists' and fear-mongering over how electing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would lead to the downfall of the country...From the carefully coiffed waves in her hair to the backdrop of flags, her speech typified the Fox Newsiness of the first night of the RNC. It celebrated America and touched on a range of favorite conservative media talking points, from cancel culture to calling Democratic leaders 'cosmopolitan elites' to warnings about the US Southern border."

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• Night 1 was the GOP's Fox News Convention: "Viewers were presented with two and a half hours that would register as familiar to anyone who has watched Fox News’ primetime lineup, with rhetoric far more reminiscent of Sean Hannity than Mitt Romney," says Ben Jacobs. "It was a convention where cancel culture was a bigger threat than the coronavirus and socialist revolutionaries were knocking at the gates. It was Trump and Trump alone who could fix these problems. The convention provided a window into a universe where the key issue confronting the country was the culture war, not the pandemic or the recession that it has caused."
• Stephen Colbert mocked Kimberly Guilfoyle's speech on his live Late Show: "Is the loud lady gone? I'm scared!" he joked. "This is the first time in my life, I've had to turn down the volume on CSPAN."
• Fox News stuck to its Democratic National Convention plan with the Republican convention: Fox News dipped in and out of the convention until devoting full coverage during the 10 p.m. ET hour -- showing less of the convention compared to CNN and MSNBC. Sean Hannity even talked over the RNC while saying the media "won't show large parts of the RNC."
• Why did Night 1 of the RNC end 7 minutes early?: "RNC Night One ends 7 minutes early ... which means GOP is yielding 7 minutes of key prime-time hour to network pundits & analysis, instead of their own messaging," says The New York Times' Michael M. Grynbaum.
• Fox News cut away from Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk's opening remarks, while CNN and MSNBC covered him live
• Republican convention used stock footage of people for its opening film
• The RNC rolled out a condensed version of the state-by-state roll call
• Biden campaign was angry at CBS And ABC for covering President Trump's RNC remarks during the day, giving him more convention airtime