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Help Me Wolf Blitzer, You're My Only Hope
Cable news is certainly no stranger to over-developed on-screen graphics, but this is one for the ages: Jessica Yellin speaking from the ether (Grant Park) to talk to Wolf Blitzer about what's happening in Chicago.
It's an Obi-Wan moment if there ever was one.
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Could CNN get Sarah Palin into the studio and beam her out into space? Please?
November 4, 2008 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just beam her into the middle of Grant Park.The crowd can take care of her.
November 4, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody know what size all of her new fancy duds are? I wear a 6 and could use some spiffy new jackets. . .
November 4, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody know what size all of her new fancy duds are? I wear a 6 and could use some spiffy new jackets. . .
November 4, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Woo hoo! BigO leading in FL 56-44 with 2% in :-)
November 4, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Northern FLA is very red, and that area didn't report yet.
November 4, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, that's my line! Where's my residuals?
November 4, 2008 7:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
¡Viva Obama!
November 4, 2008 7:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
IN, OH, FL,VA...Call two of the three for Obama I'll relax.
November 4, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN calls south Carolina for McCain.
I want some damn wins! I don't want to have to start getting nervous now after being confident since February!
November 4, 2008 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
hmmm...
tim russert used a simple dry erase board.
cnn needs holograms...
ridiculous. i mean, sure its neat, but is it really necessary?
i dont see how this helps advance the knowledge of whats going on or in any way adds to the depth of information they can cover.
it's just a shiny new toy. flash over substance.
November 4, 2008 7:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
and this helps the coverage how? it's stupid. it's distracting. it's about the story, not the technology. this is what happens when you let the tech folks decide how to cover a story.
November 4, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Groovy. What good is it?
November 4, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pandering to the viewers on acid.
November 4, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
PA TO OBAMA!
November 4, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Penn - we won! We won!
November 4, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
PA OBAMA OOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.......
November 4, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pennsylvania to Obama!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do I dare?
THIS . . .
November 4, 2008 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
IS
November 4, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm happies as I ever was in my life...i made atleast 500 calls in PA. Wooooooohhhhhhhhhh
November 4, 2008 8:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Keystone state makes a gravestone for McCain.
November 4, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
PA was so easy.....
November 4, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, but WHAT A RELIEF!
November 4, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, wait. NBC called PA, but CNN isn't yet? Why is that?
November 4, 2008 8:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
From Josh on the homepage:
7:50 PM ... Initial exits out of North Carolina and Ohio, computed on the same basis as those below.
North Carolina: Obama 51%, McCain 48%
Ohio: Obama 53%, McCain 45%
November 4, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
David Gregory is pissed....We won PA....GOD I LOVE THIS NIGHT......
November 4, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
From the South Park movie:
Fuck Gregory! Fuck him right in the ear!
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN is lagging on PA for some reason....
November 4, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
They're waiting for votes. That's what they saying
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to Ambinder, the Exit Poll Consortium has called it for Obama. It looks like CNN is sceptical of the exit poll numbers right now. I honestly don't blame them, but it looks like McCain's PA push has crashed and burned.
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
He's going to win Ohio and Florida too - it is a tsunami.
I'm laughing and crying at the same time . -
November 4, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
God I feel the same way. We waited for this day so long...
November 4, 2008 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm trying not to get too excited...I really trying not to.
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember, long ago the weather channel predicted the tsunamis and landslide! (for those who don't know me... click my name and look for that blog...)
November 4, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN's waiting on the votes. Not relying on the exit polls.
November 4, 2008 8:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I love Rachel Maddow, but tonight - shut.the.fuck.up.
November 4, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
She drives me nuts too.
November 4, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
We've had a storm move in - pray for me - all my contact with the outside world in the hands of Kit Carson Electric Coop -
November 4, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tena deserves good karma...
November 4, 2008 8:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign!!
November 4, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
And thats why McCain makes a sad little final speech to the press at the back of his campaign plane. He got the hard numbers from PA, and wanted to say a final goodbye to his "base".
November 4, 2008 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Tena. Obama's up in Texas (with one percent of the vote counted).
...developing...
Oh, but Fox has called the McConnell race. :(
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're fucking kidding me -
November 4, 2008 8:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn am I missing the party watching CNN?
November 4, 2008 8:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes you did PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
How in the world are ABC and MSNBC calling PA??
November 4, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the people that make Word Search did the ballots in Palm Beach County Fla. Why do they make it difficult?
November 4, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was the STUPIDEST thing I've seen on television since Bill O'Reilly.
November 4, 2008 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Co-sign!! But, as a fan of the MIT Media Lab.. it was fun. Does that count? "Tomorrow... and for the rest of our lives...."
November 4, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
CNN projects New Hampshire for Obama. Woo fuckin' hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dole Loses!!!!!!!
November 4, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Texas is in play! (fingers crossed)
November 4, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
I spent all day today doing phone banking for Barack in Pittsburgh. Thank God my fellow Pennsylvanians pulled this out!
November 4, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
This hologram nonsense is the most ridiculous things networks have invented to date!
Here's some inspirational, feel-good Obama to help with the anxiety, and more and more, with celebration!: :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf19H_sHMro&fmt=6
November 4, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink