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    Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Shouldn't this be headlined "Sad Media..."?
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    This election may end, but Hillary starts running for 2012 tomorrow.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Hey, everybody. When you're all watching the returns tonight, try not to follow the exit polls too religiously (remember 2004?). Check out the ten reasons why:


    [www.fivethirtyeight.com]

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    Image of rajmahall rajmahall
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Colbert, at least, will be fine. The writers are geniuses and the character works best as an oppositional figure. Besides, that show has perhaps one of most valuable jobs of the next for years: cataloging the utter implosion of the Republican party, and the resultant hilarity.


    I can't fucking wait.

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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @rajmahall: popcorn! peanuts! popcorn! cold beer!
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Hey, it's Chien!!! Sup dog?
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Fuck the media. I need this election to be over. I am sitting in my cubicle, completely oblivious to anything going on in my office, trying to fight back an emotional outburst. Yes, I am oversharing. Put that in your bong and smoke it. I need a drink and a hug and I need this election to be over.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: Free hugs over here, 24/7.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: Don't tease me. I am in a very fragile state right now.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: No teasing at all. If I could come over and give you a hug I would. Sorry to ruffle your feathers. Hang in there. It will soon be over. And don't forget there's always alcohol.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: HA! No, I was only kidding.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: Hey! No more hugs for you.
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    Image of Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: News flash.

    Dixie Chicks vote in Dixville Notch, NH.

    Sweep votes for Obama!
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: No, I knew you weren't teasing me, and I was using "tease" in an ironic way. Hugs for everyone!!!
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @Un Chien Andalou: Who's Sweep?
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: Sending a hug and a cocktail to you by psychic messenger.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: Also maybe a goose.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/04/08

    @bringmemyTofu: Tofu, friend, pal, buddy, dude, I've been like sitting in the cubicle next to yours for like the last 45 minutes, flinging over crumpled-up Post-Its, waiting for you to flick them back, but not a one, dude, not a one right back at me. Do I need to knock this shared wall down, you know, the one with a poster of the U.S.S. Enterprise on my side, and a huge-ass photo of Christie Brinkley swimming in the pool from National Lampoon's Vacation on yours, so we can connect? Or should we just meet downstairs in the commissary, splitting an "Employees Only Wednesdays" value meal, with a Coke and vanilla ice cream?
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/04/08

    @Aaron Altman: BIGHUGELABS HATES ME.
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    11/04/08

    @Aaron Altman: Make it BIGHUGLABS for Tofu.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/04/08

    @scroll_lock: DONE ALSO CAPS LOCK FOR TOFU.
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    11/04/08

    @Aaron Altman: All I get is AIRKISSLABS.
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    11/04/08

    @Aaron Altman: ALRIGHTY
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    11/04/08

    @blix: All I get is the PRETENDTOWAVEBUTSTROKEHAIRATLA....
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Obama ain't no fucking Erkle. He's more like Morgan Motherfucking Freeman, dammit.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: The Kobe of politics.
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    11/04/08

    @bjonston: 24's President Palmer.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: morgan freeman with a dash of cary grant, i'm thinking
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @belltolls: Yeah. Or Jordan?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: or the west wing president, just a few shades darker
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    Image of nanashi nanashi
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: Denzel. But not Malcolm X Denzel...not that there's anything wrong with that...
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    11/04/08

    @nanashi: denzel + jimmy stewart
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @nanashi: Actually, I'm thinking his is a suave mixture of Morgan Freeman (presence, gravitas) and Denzel Washington (good lucks, appealing), with a dash of Cary Grant (charm).
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: Dudes, Obama is Obama. He doesn't have to be anyone else. :-)
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @bjonston: and add just a soupcon of harrison ford (cuz u know he can be a badass when he needs 2 b) and that's perfect
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    11/04/08

    @Aaron Altman: I know, I know. It's just a fun way to pass the time between now and tonight.
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    11/04/08

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Totally. Harrison Ford does badass better than most.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Who is this Media fellow? And why is he so stupid?
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    The problem is we've made it too easy on comedians over the last 16 years. When you had a womanizing Arkansas boy who loves donuts followed by a Texas moron, the jokes wrote themselves.


    Now that they have a black dork, they don't know what to do.


    It's like having Urkle become president.

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    Image of hurleyburley hurleyburley
    11/04/08

    @drunkexpatwriter: Please, Obama is much more Stefan Urqelle than he is Steve Urkle.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @drunkexpatwriter: obama is so not a dork. i do believe that public figures work out their personal issues on the public stage, and while bill clinton's was getting any living human to love him, and w's is getting every last dollar on earth into the hands of his corrupt friends, obama's seems to be to bring people together -- a rare moment when a leader's own issues are very close to what the nation's are
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    11/04/08

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: What a lovely fantasy!
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    Image of Dagrolord Dagrolord
    11/04/08

    @drunkexpatwriter:


    Obama has the immunity idol with many white Americans. They can't see him as 'nerdy'...they think of him more as 'scholarly' or 'professorial'.


    The 'Urkle' thing definitely works for some of the black folks I know. We spent a wonderful evening not too long ago at a comedy club watching a black comedian do an hilarious Obama impersonation. The comedian had Obama moving stiffly ala Robocop or one of the old animated Harryhausen monsters. The Obama head movement was especially stiff and incremental as the comedian made hilarious hydraulic sound effects. He delivered Obama's talking voice as curiously clipped and 'sound bitey'.


    I found it dead to rights and otherwise hysterical. Most of the other white folk apparently didn't as they 'tittered' obligingly. And these the same white folk who'd laughed especially hard at other black comedians earlier.


    It's the same curiously deferential behavior I've noticed in many American whites before. Whitey just can't seem to react naturally to black folk. In the U.S.A., there's an appeasement or pacification element in the behavior of many whites towards blacks that I believe is intended to come across as 'just' or 'enlightened', but ultimately draws from the same well of self-deception as negative prejudice. SNL has picked up on this with rare satirical perception in the Press's ridiculously deferential towards Barack Obama.


    Ultimately however, we're moving towards a better society when the same five white guys who two hundred years ago might have been moving to lynch Obama are instead bonking heads like coconuts as they simultaneously bend down to kiss Obama's ass like Mac 'n Tosh, those ridiculous over-polite cartoon gophers.


    I may get a sense of vertigo when I stand too close to an abyss of such unrepentant ass-lickers, but I understand it as the price of social progress.

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    Image of Dagrolord Dagrolord
    11/04/08

    @Dagrolord: deferential 'attitude' towards...
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/04/08

    @Dagrolord: dude, i'm white, and, please, enough with the dererence to black people stuff; really.


    i do find obama to be fucking brilliant, scholarly and professorial; smarter even maybe than bill clinton and far more honorable, and hotter, too.

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    11/04/08

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart:

    Your earlier response was not yet on my screen at the time I was writing my 12:22 PM post. My response was to the OP.


    And I believe I'll bring up the issue of undue 'deference' whenever it seems to be indicated, and I'm otherwise interested in doing so.

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    Image of hurleyburley hurleyburley
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Has the word "homey" even been part of the vernacular since 1998? Who is this nerdy white comedian? The link won't work for me.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/04/08

    @hurleyburley: Fixed that link, to a story in Salon
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    Image of Un Chien Andalou Un Chien Andalou
    11/04/08

    @Hamilton Nolan:

    Alexander Hamilton Hussein Nolan, hmmm...
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Politico announced back in September that it was adding 15+ employees after the election and increasing print circulation. Makes perfect sense.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    11/04/08

    @uninspired: You can't leave crazed nutty comments on print, though. Or you can, but like one person will read the paper you scrawled all over.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    this will be good news for the media: an obama presidency, in which issues will be real and discussed, will give the media a chance to elevate their game by joining and disseminating actual information, or circle the drain in one big final thrash of irrelevancy
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    11/04/08

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Imagine...actual press conferences to attend.
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    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    As a tribute to election day, the greatest election day speech ever given (by James Carville):



    + Watch video
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    11/04/08

    In reply to Media Beginning to Realize That Someday This Election Will End
    Trust me, this is only the start. The lovefest will be over and we'll make fun of Obama like any other politician. As far as the news goes, they seem very good at retelling the same facts over and over again.


    The news will be the Twitter to Obama's office.

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