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dragonlady7OK, I'd really hoped to post this light-heartedly when all was over.
Failing that, I'll post it with some tiny modcium of sobriety. *looks at spelling* OK, maybe not.
Dan Ratherisms for the evening (and by the way, he refuses to call Ohio for Bush without those provisional ballots):
Note: anything unbracketed, unpunctuated, is a direct quote from Dan Rather as closely as I could remember it to write it down at the time.
8:30 PM:
It won't mean a thing
if they don't get those swing. ... s.
Ponder that, while I say to you this: so stick in here with CBS News.
With all this spinning going on, let's go check on the spinning machine... To the White House.
Right now, only votes talk. Everything else walks.
[Dave's comment: "He's gonna be speaking Esperanto by 2 am." In the event, we went to bed at 2.]
We'll be back with ya 'long the trail, soon.
... cardio-inducing presidential race...
This is still an early hour. We just like to show the national vote total from time to time.
9:42 PM:
The race is hummin' along like Ray Charles.
John Kerry's moon has just moved behind a cloud, as far as Florida is concerned.
[Corey{dave's friend}: "Is this about the election or the country?"
Dave: "Huh huh. You just said, 'cunt'."]
He's got his back to the wall, bill collectors at the door, and his shirt tails on fire.
12:00AM-ish:
Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows.
[I have to point out that I just loved the sophisticated computer graphic, to which he pointed with A PENCIL. At some point around midnight, the pencil was replaced by a pen.]
12:45 AM:
[discussing Iowa] Kerry's lead is as thin as turnip soup.
[no context for this has been recorded, and I don't know what the hell he meant by this:]
If a frog had side pockets he'd carry a hand gun.
...with some high-technology, digitized equipment.
12:49 PM: (i think the other clock was fast)
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delovely for Bush.
If you've tuned in later, been watching one of those other places that doesn't have as good information as we do of course...
[by 12:55 AM everyone in the room was horizontal. Corey snores like a mofo, yo.]
[It occurs to me, not for the first time, that no matter who wins, we ALL LOSE. Both sides have been so eager to win that they have happily polarized the nation into destructive self-loathing. Fuck, I'm drunk.]
Now it's oh, my, Ohio, all eyes on the buckeye state.
[Dave's comment, referring to the Eminem video exhorting his fan base to vote: "I gues we didn't mosh hard enough."
a few minutes later: "I think they're holding out New Hampshire just for the hell of it."]
1:02 AM: Do you hear that knocking? President Bush's re-election is at the door. Knock, knock, knock.
[Around this time, Kentucky elected a certifiably insane man for Senate. i mean it, the man is nuts. And they elected him anyway.]
[And, at this point I stopped watching:]
Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. Say it ten times, it'll still be there.
So, by a 4% margin, we have voted that we would rather be lied to by a man who abuses God's name for his own ends, and whose STATED policies we don't really understand. I'm sorry, that's being ruled by fear, and to believe otherwise is self-delusion.
A sad thought.
Failing that, I'll post it with some tiny modcium of sobriety. *looks at spelling* OK, maybe not.
Dan Ratherisms for the evening (and by the way, he refuses to call Ohio for Bush without those provisional ballots):
Note: anything unbracketed, unpunctuated, is a direct quote from Dan Rather as closely as I could remember it to write it down at the time.
8:30 PM:
It won't mean a thing
if they don't get those swing. ... s.
Ponder that, while I say to you this: so stick in here with CBS News.
With all this spinning going on, let's go check on the spinning machine... To the White House.
Right now, only votes talk. Everything else walks.
[Dave's comment: "He's gonna be speaking Esperanto by 2 am." In the event, we went to bed at 2.]
We'll be back with ya 'long the trail, soon.
... cardio-inducing presidential race...
This is still an early hour. We just like to show the national vote total from time to time.
9:42 PM:
The race is hummin' along like Ray Charles.
John Kerry's moon has just moved behind a cloud, as far as Florida is concerned.
[Corey{dave's friend}: "Is this about the election or the country?"
Dave: "Huh huh. You just said, 'cunt'."]
He's got his back to the wall, bill collectors at the door, and his shirt tails on fire.
12:00AM-ish:
Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows.
[I have to point out that I just loved the sophisticated computer graphic, to which he pointed with A PENCIL. At some point around midnight, the pencil was replaced by a pen.]
12:45 AM:
[discussing Iowa] Kerry's lead is as thin as turnip soup.
[no context for this has been recorded, and I don't know what the hell he meant by this:]
If a frog had side pockets he'd carry a hand gun.
...with some high-technology, digitized equipment.
12:49 PM: (i think the other clock was fast)
It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delovely for Bush.
If you've tuned in later, been watching one of those other places that doesn't have as good information as we do of course...
[by 12:55 AM everyone in the room was horizontal. Corey snores like a mofo, yo.]
[It occurs to me, not for the first time, that no matter who wins, we ALL LOSE. Both sides have been so eager to win that they have happily polarized the nation into destructive self-loathing. Fuck, I'm drunk.]
Now it's oh, my, Ohio, all eyes on the buckeye state.
[Dave's comment, referring to the Eminem video exhorting his fan base to vote: "I gues we didn't mosh hard enough."
a few minutes later: "I think they're holding out New Hampshire just for the hell of it."]
1:02 AM: Do you hear that knocking? President Bush's re-election is at the door. Knock, knock, knock.
[Around this time, Kentucky elected a certifiably insane man for Senate. i mean it, the man is nuts. And they elected him anyway.]
[And, at this point I stopped watching:]
Ohio, Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. Say it ten times, it'll still be there.
So, by a 4% margin, we have voted that we would rather be lied to by a man who abuses God's name for his own ends, and whose STATED policies we don't really understand. I'm sorry, that's being ruled by fear, and to believe otherwise is self-delusion.
A sad thought.
