Midwest Chick's Place

 Something I noticed during Biden’s address on Wednesday night was not about him, although something he was wearing started me down this particular rabbit hole.

It’s been a thing for a while that male Republicans generally wear red ties and Dems wear blue.   Trump wore a lot of purple ties his first time around and probably will during his second term–symbolic mixing of blue and red, I think.

Okay, so they are color coded for our convenience (if they’d also wear sponsor patches like the folks in racing do, we’d be set).

I was watching the CBS airing of the Biden speech–unlike all of the other channels, even NBC, who showed the speech and then boogied back to regular programming ASAP, CBS kept going, and going, and going.

Getting to the point–all of the reporters were wearing blue.  All of them.  If they weren’t in solid blue like Nora O’Donnell almost always is and like the chick at the White House was, then blue ties, blue accessories were the color du jour.

I don’t think they are wearing blue to match the color of their eyes.  I think it’s symbolic and is something to watch for.  Not that their gang allegiance is/was much of a surprise.

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Apropos of nothing, when I went on CBS’ website today (Thursday morning) to do some screengrabs, there is nothing about Biden’s speech.  Only that it was going to happen.  They’ve memory-holed it already and replaced it with Biden meeting with Netanyahu.