Some post-election thoughts
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ksmithI tried to watch the coverage on MSNBC. Was rather excited about it, in fact, given that Keith Olbermann was slated to co-host. Yes, he was slated to co-host with Chris "Voice like a Foghorn" Matthews, whom I despise with the heat of a thousand suns, but as co-host, KO would get to talk half the time, wouldn't he? Wouldn't he?
Forty percent of the time?
Ok, thirty-two point six?
Well.
Granted, I did not watch the entire broadcast as I was busy online answering editorial emails about the J5 cover and surfing the 'net for local results, but given what I saw, I think I can conclude definitively that to the list of things/people with whom one should never appear on stage, namely dogs and little kids, one can safely add "Chris 'Voice like Two Foghorns" Matthews. If he let KO speak ten percent of the time, that was a lot. Chris Matthews, the self-appointed conscience of the Democratic Party, who did his best to corner Howard Dean, who last I heard currently held no public office, into defining the Democratic Plan for getting out of Iraq right then because he was sick, Sick, I tell you, of the ducking and dodging he felt the Party was engaging in when it came to defining a Plan.
Where was your dismay two years ago, you son of a bitching Tom de Lay suck-up?
CNN was no better. Why do Paul Begala and Snakeboy Carville still have jobs? And did the Casino-like camera that followed Anderson Cooper through the studio as he narrated and questioned folks bug you like it bugged me?
Artsy.
Yes, I'm grumpy. I'm tired, and my right knee hurts for some reason. I don't know what I did, but apparently I did it. This doesn't negate the fact that I am glad, nay, *very* glad, that the Dems took the House. Fingers crossed they take the Senate. Fingers further crossed that they don't screw up this opportunity that a fed-up electorate has given them.
I'd like my habeus corpus back, please.
Forty percent of the time?
Ok, thirty-two point six?
Well.
Granted, I did not watch the entire broadcast as I was busy online answering editorial emails about the J5 cover and surfing the 'net for local results, but given what I saw, I think I can conclude definitively that to the list of things/people with whom one should never appear on stage, namely dogs and little kids, one can safely add "Chris 'Voice like Two Foghorns" Matthews. If he let KO speak ten percent of the time, that was a lot. Chris Matthews, the self-appointed conscience of the Democratic Party, who did his best to corner Howard Dean, who last I heard currently held no public office, into defining the Democratic Plan for getting out of Iraq right then because he was sick, Sick, I tell you, of the ducking and dodging he felt the Party was engaging in when it came to defining a Plan.
Where was your dismay two years ago, you son of a bitching Tom de Lay suck-up?
CNN was no better. Why do Paul Begala and Snakeboy Carville still have jobs? And did the Casino-like camera that followed Anderson Cooper through the studio as he narrated and questioned folks bug you like it bugged me?
Artsy.
Yes, I'm grumpy. I'm tired, and my right knee hurts for some reason. I don't know what I did, but apparently I did it. This doesn't negate the fact that I am glad, nay, *very* glad, that the Dems took the House. Fingers crossed they take the Senate. Fingers further crossed that they don't screw up this opportunity that a fed-up electorate has given them.
I'd like my habeus corpus back, please.
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Date: 2006-11-08 08:57 pm (UTC)I am so damn grateful that I won't have to watch another of the disgusting, mudslinging commercials that have peppered the airwaves here in the weeks leading up to the election. Some stations refused to air the commercials, but, alas, the cable provider was only too happy to pick them up.
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Date: 2006-11-08 11:46 pm (UTC)I went back to MSNBC intermittantly. I could be completely off the mark, but I couldn't shake the sense that Matthews felt uncomfortable working with Olbermann. He looked a little shell-shocked, taken aback, like the Smart Kid (tm) come to the realization that he was no longer the brightest kid in class. For KO's part, he seemed almost excessively polite, giving way to Matthews every time the braying ass opened his mouth, seldom following up or pushing a point. He seemed to acknowledge that this was Matthews' ball game. Damn, but I wish it hadn't been. Keith actually lets people finish their sentences.
I am so damn grateful that I won't have to watch another of the disgusting, mudslinging commercials that have peppered the airwaves here in the weeks leading up to the election. Some stations refused to air the commercials, but, alas, the cable provider was only too happy to pick them up.
We were peppered with them. During some commercial breaks, those ads were all you saw, 4 or 5 of them in a row.
I hated the ads Peter Roskam ran against Tammy Duckworth, the vet who lost both her legs in Iraq. I hope that bastard gets his freshman head handed to him.
Not that I'm like, bitter, or anything. And she wasn't running in my district--our Dem won. Well, Melissa Bean is sort of a Dem. Frankly, I consider her an R in D's clothing, but given that she was running against a real extremist...
I'm glad it's over until, when, a year from now, when the presidential races start shaking out?