CNN is unwatchable.

Interesting. Hillaristas complain that Obama supporters are irrational swooners voting on the basis of empty popularity over real issues. But then she spends the critical last days of the campaign appearing on comedy entertainment shows instead of news programs. Or, you know, spending the time releasing her tax returns or her White House schedule.

To her credit, though, she's only slightly less funny on SNL than Obama was last fall.

It seems rather indecent that a memo leaked by a foreign government may decide the 2008 US Election.   As Americans, who should we believe? Senator Obama who is one of the most ethical political leaders in American history or some Canadian Bureaucrat who clearly doesn't understand US politics?    

breaking news, there is carnage in the middle east as Israel responds to Hamas rocket attacks, but lets preempt this with a commentary about a third rate comedy show sketch. I am starting to think I should unplug the internet and get rid of my satellite TV, America and the world is doomed. Maybe if I am unaware I can pretend it isn't happening.

I'm an Obama supporter, and I also hope that the whole Canada/NAFTA snafu (which I still can't even believe is getting any play, but such is life) blows over with no long-term effects.  But, y'know, shit happens.

If Mike's right about the SNL effect --and I think he is--then you have to ask: would Obama be in

blackton -- by "middle east," I assume you mean Ohio?  Is that a caucus or primary state?  How many middle-aged Hispanic women do they have?  Because why could we POSSIBLY be expected to pay attention if there aren't delegates to be had.

drdanny, I just can't wait until today is over. If Hillary wins, I will simply take a long time out from politics. I have never seen a candidate more dispiriting than Hillary Clinton. If she had run the campaign that you wanted, then had she won I would have accepted it (but doubt her ability to win in November). Now, unless McCain has a major screwup or Iraq implodes (which the Republicans won't let happen, they will extend the surge until November regardless of the consequences to the military) McCain will win. As I have said before, I would be fine with that, but it is also likely Hillary will take down the Democrats in Congress with her, and that won't be fine with me. Thoroughly depressing.

Yeah -- let's face it, blackton...SNL got it right. And the election sorta matters...in any case, what will everyone be saying when SNL gets pro-Obama in the next week or 2...????

With any luck, the election will end. Sometime.

Middle East carnage will continue. Indefinitely. Sucks.

As I said to epic last night on the phone, if the Democrats lose this one (which I fervently hope they do not), then there is no conclusion to draw except that they deserve to.  The comment cited in a Plank post upstream, in which Clinton praises McCain in the same manner in which she denigrates Obama, provides further credence.  If Clinton had campaigned with class, I'd have supported her.  At this point, I wonder if I was hopelessly naive to expect that she was capable of doing so.

People people, you just don't get it.  The most important issue right now is how DOES Michael Crowley pronounce his name????

There are non-partisan, academically-based research studies from Harvard and George Mason universities that make it clear just how pro-Obama and anti-Clinton the press have been. If you are interested in actual evidence, there really can be no dispute about this.

That is why the SNL skit hit such a nerve--the media were doing something that they were denying, and it took pop cultiure satires to call them to account. The pro_obama coverage has become a national joke.

I think the three obamalists that SNL satirized as "in the tank" for Obama might have been loosely based on Gloria Borger, Jack Cafferty, and Donna Brazile on CNN. It was laughable to see these three asked by Wolf Blitzer whether the media had been unfair to Hillary--like asking the foxes about the chickens. Borger and Cafferty used the question, entirely predictably, as another opportunity to bash Hillary, essentially saying "shut up and stop complaining, you stupid piece of trash."

The links to the research are here:

http://www.cmpa.com/

www.journalism.org/.../8187

www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol

Blackton,

I certainly agree with you.  Since Obama won MD, VA, DC and HI this campaign and the subsequent press coverage has just become painful to watch.  I hope Obama pulls off some sort of miracle today, because I'd just like a freaking break from all the idiocy already.

tnmats:

"People people, you just don't get it.  The most important issue right now is how DOES Michael Crowley pronounce his name????"

It's Crowley, pronounced like "how." Right, Mike? Candy's name is pronounced like "grow."

Gavriel Meir Levi - "Senator Obama who is one of the most ethical political leaders in American history".  I hope for your sake you are kidding.