I’m not a Wonkette regular, but I had to give a grim smirk at this little collection of photos from the Republican Convention. Thanks to Our Man In Washington.
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Honestly, I’ve had three looks at those unremarkarble photos, and I do not see anything either “grim” or ‘smirk-worthy’ in them. Please explain, I hate not to get a joke.
The photos are captioned “Diversest. Convention. Ever.” Wonkette was holding a competition for pictures of people at the Republican shindig in New York who weren’t white. The joke was that entrants had had to resort to photographing the people cleaning up after the delegates to find any suitable faces. Bet you’re gripping your sides with mirth now I’ve explained it.
What a side-splitter! But I can’t understand why I’ve just watched Channel 4 news, and their roving cameras picked up all sorts of ethnicities in the audience of the RNC. I suspect that ‘Wonkette’ is suffering from a mis-placed vowel!
To give some context, Wonkette had been running photos of the convention showing how white it was. So white she advised her readers to put on sunshades.