And then:

When it was Obama’s turn to speak, Carmella announced loudly, “I wish I had ear plugs.” Then, as Obama tried to ingratiate himself with the Hillary partisans in the crowd by saying that because of the New York senator, his daughters “can take for granted that women can do anything that the boys can do and do it better and do it in heels,” Carmella put her fingers in her ears.

As Obama tried to curry favor with Hillary, looking over at her sensible, sturdy shoes and marveling, “I still don’t know how she does it in heels,” Carmella tore up a tissue and stuffed it in her ears.

When Obama pandered with a line about how he wouldn’t “perpetuate a system in which women are paid less for the same work as men,” she put her hands over her tissue-stuffed ears.

The Lewis anecdote is quirky and memorable, and certainly telling of the frustration that many disaffected Clinton voters are feeling right now. And we appreciate the attempts, above, to bring nuance to the narrative of the epic “Kumbaya” chorus that was Unity Day. But there are other sources to be found and quoted in the service of nuance. The Denver convention will soon be upon us—and, that being Lewis’s hometown and Lewis being a delegate, Carmella will almost certainly be in attendance, probably garbed in her “Hillary 2008” shirt, possibly armed with her defiant box of Kleenex. If she is, reporters might do well to resist her quirky charms and channel instead the AP’s Packer memo: Ms. Lewis is clearly eager to be quoted. Let’s be eager, too—to find other people to quote.

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