WaPo, today:
24 hours ago, the immediate coverage was that Hillary had decisively beaten Obama. I know; I live blogged it. Philly's local TV station covered the debate from three angles: The Undecided broke for Hillary 55/45; the focus groups for Hillary 50/27 (remainder undecided); and UPenn students, having been for Obama or neutral, broke heavily for Hillary.
But the narrative can never be that Hillary won. And Barack "No Mas" Obama performed so horrendously that the narrative couldn't become that he had won. (Contrast Bush/Gore in 2000, where in a mere 24 hours, our famously press turned their initial reaction, that Gore cleaned Bush's clock, into the narrative of Gore's "sighing," and determined that Bush won after all. What that means for our own day is that they must have thought Obama did even worse than Bush, which is pretty amazing.)
So, since Hillary can never win (those are the rules), and Barack could not be said to have won (too absurd), the narrative can only.... That nobody won, because the debate sucked.
So, the press sucks. Just not quite in the way that the A list is telling you. After all, if they thought there was a real problem, they would already have tried to deal with it, instead of waiting 'til their golden boy got pummeled.
There's plenty of suckitude to go around, isn't there?
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Even some of the Philly media are spinning it now
Apparently, ABC crossed the line. Little to no mention of how Obama fucked the hell up.
My only hope is that enough people in PA watched it for themselves that they realize Clinton decked Obama good.
Waiting for the ads...
... because they've got gold, in the debate footage.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
You tell me.
I'm not going to tell you what this is. You tell me. Its only 11 seconds long... (h/t www.taylormarsh.com )
(edit WAAAH, the video isn't showing up. The code shows up when I edit.. but no video. so just go to Taylor's place, and tell me if I'm crazy)
He is, indeed, flipping the bird..
Paul, yikes.
I was taught how to do just that back in the day... Push my glasses up with my middle finger and look innocent...
And that's why the cheers begin exactly at that point.
Sheesh. What a frat boy.
Paul, change input formats to Full HTML and the OBJECT tag will be understood.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Somebody needs to start chanting "Supreme Court"...
Supreme Court, Supreme Court.... because if he gets the nomination and hell freezes over and wins in November, the idea of him being president is getting scary.
I mean, I usually don't like either candidate in the general election... but I've never thought that both were frightening.
Waitaminute...
There's footage of Dubya out there doing almost exactly the same thing.
Imagine what you could do with that.
Boys will be boys
Not quite the same, though.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Here you go
At 0:17, the stealth birdo
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xCNUIZDCOVA
Kathleen Hall Jamieson: no bias
From philly.com:
I wish someone on the TV networks would mention that Ron Paul had tons of rabid, online support, too, to combat this idea that if ABC received thousands of angry online comments it must be representative of the audience as a whole.