For most of the campaign I’ve watched MSNBC because its the only network with major voices from the left like Olbermann and Maddow, but election night I think I might watch Fox News because of the likely outcome and my obsession with schadenfreude. How about you?
Oh, you are wicked!
I watched the last three debates on BBC America, actually. No special graphics or interactive elements, but remarkably straight-forward coverage. BBCA will be covering on Tuesday night (with Ted Koppel guesting), so that might be the way to go.
I will probably flip between MSNBC, CNN, and Fox depending on who is going to be talking at different times. But Wednesday it will be Fox all day to hear the whine. Anyone thinking of trying to watch the 2AM rally tonight in AZ after the all day/little sleep McCain tour? It might be a gaffe fest!
Fox is a pay station here these days, sadly, so bollocks to that. I’ll be watching it on the good old BBC, probably switchin’ it up to Sky and ITV every so often for variety, until I fall asleep, probably before the first state is declared.
I’m going to a big Election Night party at a big hotel in Boston. John Kerry will be there. I guess I won’t be controlling the remote that night! But I would LOVE to watch Rachel Maddow.
I’m going to an election night party at a neighboring apartment. There should be about 20 of us there. I hope we flip through the channels to get a taste of what each pundit is serving up.
Thomas — do you know if BBC America will have Peter Snow/his successor, or is it going to be U.S.-based coverage? My significant other is an Anglophile Republican and the best way to avoid Fox News is to offer the Swingometer.
MSNBC, w/ some CNN, and PBS (f/ Mark Shields and David Brooks) mixed in. BBC and MHZ peeks after 10 pm. Busy clicker.
I’ll flip around, but I’ll probably watch all of the Stewart/Colbert election special. Hell, they were the only good things about 2000 and 2004, now I want to see how they handle some good news.
I’m in Chicago. If all goes as expected, I’ll be watching the next President of the United States make his victory speech live and in person.
Assuming I don’t suddenly find myself at an election-watching party, I’ll be watching on http://www.theyoungturks.com
Bijan C. Bayne:
I’ll watch Brooks if he is on. I want to see that bastard whine like a little girl.
I might watch Faux Noise. Imagine if both Obama and Franken cruise to crushing victories. Maybe that would cause O’Falafel and Sean Insanity to both slit their wrists live on air.
Probably not the news. I will avoid all news channels and just use the internet to find out who won so I don’t have to hear the talking heads spew their BS.
MSNBC because I like the commentary and while Chris Matthews ticks me off at times, he has a genuine love of politics (as does Maddow and even Olberman to a lesser degree), and I like that kind of enthusiasm. Of course, we’ll have to deal with Pat Buchanan (if McCain loses that really means Democrats lose) and Harold Ford (now we must move to the middle and make sure we coddle Republicans for the next 4 years) but I can deal with them (among others).
I thought the vary same thing.
*terrorist fist jab*
Why, the special election night coverage by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, of course.
Does McSenile have any of his relatives on the Faux Selection Coverage Team, like Putsch did for the last two selections? It would be interesting to hear them try to steal this election the way they did in 2000 and watch them fall flat on their faces this time…
Fox is a pay station here these days, sadly, so bollocks to that.
Wow, they expect you to pay for that shite?
I’ll probably leave it on Direct TV’s New Mix channel. I get to see 8 different channels all at once.
But most likely MSNBC and BBCA.
Oh, and fuck Pat Buchannan.
We’ll probably be able to watch both FOX and MSNBC in full, since I’m expecting FOX to call Pennsylvania for McCain some time around noon.
I’ll watch on the local PBS outlet, which incidentally teams up with the local Fox outlet. But I’m sure there will be some Fox News snippets on youtube for my entertainment.
What, no Daily Show Live Coverage love? I do plan on switching over to Fox if (when) Omaba is poised to win. But I want some funny to go with my boozohol.
An obsession with schadenfreude is unhealthy and a bit creepy to be honest, but admitting it is a good first step.
Trust me, most Republicans are holding little hope for victory tomorrow night and haven’t been since the financial meltdown, Obama’s saving grace for some reason since the majority of the public barely understands even the basics of what happened.
Four years ago all during the day reading the news of the exit polls calling for a Kerry landslide didn’t bring a great deal of satisfaction watching the election analysts on TV that night practically crying when Ohio was called for Bush. Nor did Katie Couric the next day wearing all black on her moring telecast. Or even Paul Begala in his hateful diatribe about how evil all the red states were, or the protesters in San Francisco holding up their F*ck Middle America signs.
How watching Fox News tomorrow night is somehow schadenfreude when Democrats have had only two presidents in the last 40 years and it’s taken an avalanche of negative news for Republicans for a Democrat to win it’s third is beyond me. But hey, whatever gets you off.
“Bah,” said the fox. “The grapes were probably sour.” – Aesop
In any event, I don’t want to watch ANYTHING until at least 10pm. And if the asshat networks call western states before 8 o”clock, I’m gonna kick someone in the junk.
Yeah and it’s totally not at all like in 04 when every right-wing blog and all of talk radio was going full-frontal triumphalism, further touting the “permanent Republican majority”, gleefully mocking the Kos Kidz for their silly idea that they could work to elect more progressives and make the Democratic party competetive in all 50 states again.
I am going to love every delicious second of the “Beltway Boys” having their faces scrunched up like they’re eating lemons, of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh crying and screaming about the socialist takeover of America (in fact I am taking the 5th off from work specifically to listen to them) and how to win again they need to be even more conservative, and maybe even that blood-soaked moron Bill Kristol losing his dumbass smirk for a few minutes.
I am going to spend the 5th culling the best comments from wingnut blogs. I am sure FreeRepublic and LittleGreenFootballs will be treasure troves of America-hating goodness. I look forward to hearing these clowns bemoan the stupidity of the American “sheeple”, so that me and mine can tell them “if you don’t love America, get the f**k out!”
And over the coming months I am going to savor the many long knives that are going to come out from the wingnut faithful for the Republican leadership, as Bible Spice and her zombie legions turn the Republican party into a know-nothing rump that can’t win elections outside the old Confederacy.
I look forward to turning the word “Conservative” into every bit the pejorative they have tried to make “Liberal” out to be these past 25 years. I want the great mass of the American people to curl the nose in disgust when people describe themselves as conservatives and say “Eww, you’re one of those wackos?” But we should allow a few of them to remain in scattered outposts on talk radio, “just so future generations can remember what they were like“.
I’m going to give my ear to Michael Enright’s radio coverage on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio One. He’s really good, has covered many US elections and he knows much. Although FOX could be alot of fun.
I – respectfully – disagree with Dennis. Schadenfreude is a good thing; it has pulled more than one person out of the dumps and back into a proper state of mind after a setback. We have been setback for 8 years with these assclowns, and McCain is actually worse than Bush, in my view at least.
A good rule of thumb: no champagne until FOX calls it for Obama.
MH: “Assuming I don’t suddenly find myself at an election-watching party, I’ll be watching on http://www.theyoungturks.com”
Same here. Do you have your AK calendar yet?
“Trust me, most Republicans are holding little hope for victory tomorrow night and haven’t been since the financial meltdown, Obama’s saving grace for some reason since the majority of the public barely understands even the basics of what happened.”
So it is your position that Americans are too dumb to know what happened, so they are voting for Obama over McBush.
Yeah, that one will sell.
Why are you watching any TV news at all? The internet has live updates, and text — unlike video — can easily be skimmed to remove the filler. I don’t bother watching any TV news anymore.
TV is for entertainment, not news.
“TV is for entertainment, not news.”
You tell me what on this planet will be more entertaining than watching O’Reilly and Hannity have to announce that Obama will be President. (and, as someone pointed out, that Franken will be in the Senate)
“Trust me, most Republicans are holding little hope for victory tomorrow night and haven’t been since the financial meltdown, Obama’s saving grace for some reason since the majority of the public barely understands even the basics of what happened.”
Alan Greenspan just apologized last week for not understanding that his preferred policies — in particular, the failure to regulate derivatives like the credit-swap market — could lead to the meltdown. Who is the conservative economic guru who foresaw what Greenspan didn’t?
I won’t be watching Faux News as I will probably spend most of the evening crying, and I won’t share that with them. I’ll be crying (along with my wife) because for the first time in my 51 years, America will have the President that I thought they should have, a President that represents the best of America. A president that is the most exceptional human being of my experience. As a President should be, not a “regular Joe”, but the best person in America. The most elite of the elite. The kind of person I was taught as a child that we should have as our President.
As I told my wife, “Hillary is a remarkable woman, brilliant, professional, highly competent”, one in a million. But she didn’t know what she was facing; Obama is a one in a billion person, the kind of person who may come along only once in a lifetime. The world shaker. Election night will be a global event on a scale never before seen.
I’ll probably watch MSNBC again, if only to watch Rachel when Pat tries to convince her that the only reason it’s “so close” is because of the brilliant choice of Sarah Palin. Rachel’s so funny and cute when she keeps trying to use facts on ol’ Pat.
BBC America might be a fun choice. It’s always so odd to watch informed adults calmly and cogently discussing our elections.
As the Wolf would say in Pulp Fiction:
“Lets not start sucking each other’s ***** just quite yet”
Oliver…Love the site, thanks for all the education/entertainment over the past couple months!
Yes, the Caruso legacy does not consist of only my retarded sibling from the shallow end of the gene pool.
Be Good…Matt
GOOD: Watching the returns on MSNBC.
BETTER: Switching to CNN now and then for their interactive maps.
PRICELESS: Taping FOX so I can look at their faces 10,000,000 times over the next EIGHT years when they announce, “The United States of America has just elected President Elect Barack Obama – Hail to the Chief!
I actually fully expect Fox won’t even call it after Obama has 270. They’ll wait until Alaska and Hawaii “just in case” He could be winning 350 and they still won’t call it.
The Dems lost big in 2004, no doubt about it.
The Republican party as we know it will die tomorrow, no doubt about it.
Sure, there will be a decrepit husk of something that will still call itself Republican, but Rockefeller/Fundie Republican unity is dead. Look for Huck and Palin to take up the Christianist banner of the new Republcian party, and the “intellectual”/fiscal conservatives (the ones who will continue to be desperate for Socialist hand-outs from the Fed) to go their own way, maybe some sort of Libertarian party (they won’t call it that, but you get the idea).
Yeah, it’s going to be fun to watch. Pretty much a virtual bloodbath that will reach its frothy peak in 2010.
I’m voting early at a church near my apartment in Buffalo, NY then heading south to Erie, PA to GOT-f’n-V where it matters. Not sure where I’ll be when, but I’ll worry about that latter. . .
Weird, yet unintentional prose in that last sentence. Sorry.
. . . it’s taken an avalanche of negative news for Republicans for a Democrat to win . . .
No, all it took was six solid years of veto-free wall-to-wall GOP rule. Cram Republican policy down the throats of Americans for that long and you will get a clear and inevitable response from the voting public. This response began in 2006 and will be fully articulated tomorrow.
I live in Hawaii. By the time I get off work this afternoon, the election will most likely be over. However, I will take great pleasure in listening to Hugh Hewitt cry on the radio about how “awful” the next 4 years are going be
I will switch between CNN, MSNBC, and the local channel, all with the sound off.
I intend to switch over to Faux News for a few minutes to see their pundits whine like entitled white men.
Alan Greenspan just apologized last week for not understanding that his preferred policies — in particular, the failure to regulate derivatives like the credit-swap market — could lead to the meltdown.
Shorter Greensapn: Heh. Whoops.
I live in Hawaii. By the time I get off work this afternoon, the election will most likely be over.
Lucky.
I hardly ever watch news channels, but when I do I usually watch Fox news, for the same reason.
Also, it can be entertaining in a masochistic kind of way.