Yesterday Chris Bowers nailed the "Democrats divided" meme so beloved by the traditional media.

The "Democrats Divided" narrative is the favorite of the news networks, but it is, of course, completely fabricated. Clinton has helped raise millions for Democrats, done numerous campaign stops, and sent dozens of staffers to his campaign. While white Democrats are the only group where Obama is clearly under-performing compared to Gore and Kerry, it is hard to imagine that is Hillary Clinton's fault. [...]

It would be nice if, in a search to satisfy their insatiable lust for zombie "Democrats divided" narratives, that new networks would at least, for once, be accurate about the way that Democrats are divided.

One would hope that last night's speech would help to quell the media's laziness but this morning, this is what Barbara Boxer said as she addressed the California delegation.

I just had a press availabililty and they say we're tired because we're fighting each other. They have a storyline that we're not united. Are we united and are we going to elect Barack Obama!?

The place went nuts.

So take that!

And on the subject of Hillary's speech:

Didn't Hillary give a great speech last night? It was so fantastic. Listening to the cable stations. I think they're on another planet. They say she should have said more about Barack...It's not about Barack or Joe Biden or Hillary CLinton, it's about the American people and Hillary Clinton said that last night...We have two extraordinary candidates and they've both broken glass ceilings for everyone.

I spoke to a California Hillary delegate this morning, one whom I'd spoken to on Monday, and she literally said "Hillary was great. I'm on board now."

It's not that she was going to withhold her support from Barack Obama, either at the convention or in November, but she had felt a bit ostracized...as though she wasn't a member of the club but last night that changed for her, as I suspect it did for many. When will the media report it?

Update [2008-8-27 11:47:28 by Todd Beeton]:To her credit, Margaret Carlson gets it.

Clinton had her work cut out for her. She couldn't just tell her supporters to get over it. Too much talk about moving on before acknowledging their pain wasn't going to fly. But spend too much time on their anger and you could end up fueling it.

She got it just right except to those who take every moment she's not smiling like a prom queen as evidence she's a sore loser. ``I haven't fought for 35 years,'' she said, ``to see another Republican in the White House squander our promise.'' She gave a rip-roaring riff on women getting the right to vote, ending that that hard-won right should be used to elect Obama. [...]

The anger has gotten wall-to-wall coverage in recent days by too many reporters chasing too few stories in Denver. There were as many reporters covering aggrieved women as there were aggrieved women. That's partly because the usual journalistic principle --- if it bleeds, it leads --- is set on its head at an event that's a scripted pageant, not a drama.

If you want some excitement, you are going to have to find it. If you can't get the principal to say what you want (and Clinton's not playing the victim game) go to the man and woman in the street. Take down quotes until you get one or two that support your premise. File. Go to dinner.

Pretty much. I think she also got the strength of Hillary's speech:

It is hard to be unselfish and electrifying. It's hard to be hurting on the inside and give a generous, gracious and believable speech. In June in her concession speech, Clinton was good. Last night, she was great.