David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Wolf Blitzer likes baseless projections; Chris Matthews likes dumb voters
As expected, the blog server has gone all Terry Schiavo on us, so you’ll probably never read this.
Earlier tonight, Wolf Blitzer was hacked off that they just can’t make stuff up: “Interesting that we can’t make projections on those states, we’re going to have to wait to get some hard numbers from those ballots coming in.” Gee, must be tough to be, uh, responsible journalists?
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Chris Matthews is such a witless jerk – he’s already asked a Mitt Romney spokesman whether Romney will ever run for President again if he doesn’t win this year, which is putting the cart before the horse by anywhere from nine months to four years. And the guy hedged, as of course he would, and Matthews still acted like he thought he was going to get an answer out of the guy, like it’s a pertinent question at this point.
To top himself, he’s asking the Democratic chairman, Howard Dean, about the fact that a lot of college-educated people are voting Democratic today. “Is that good news for the Democratic Party, that it’s gotten so gentrified? … I just wonder where the regular people are.” Gee, Tweety, maybe you’re right – if educated people who actually follow the issues vote Democratic, the union is in graver peril than anyone could’ve imagined. Nice lip gloss, though.
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MSNBC called Utah for Obama with 24 votes in – all, according to their graphic, for John Edwards.
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Huckabee made his speech at 7:07 p.m. PCT, so he can reach his base before they go to bed: “A lot of people have been saying this is a two-man race, and you know what? They’re right – and we’re in it!” He takes another swipe at Romney and plays to his religious base by referencing Mark 12:41-44 in one fell swoop by declaring, “The widow's mite has more power than all the gold in the world.” Oh, and then he went all icky by referencing the goofy nicknames of colleges in the states he’s competitive in.
“Huckabee’s success tonight is one more manifestation of the fact that the Republican Party has grown multiple personalities,” Tom Brokaw suggested.
Afterwards, CNN’s Campbell Brown asked Huckabee, “It is highly unlikely that you’ll get the nomination … so why stay in the race?” What is it with these reporters wanting to get rid of candidates so quickly? Huckabee reasonably responded, “The only way I know I’ll lose is if I walk off the field.”
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Fox News’ Brit Hume is despairing over Romney’s showing tonight, but some of his panelists are still not willing to write him off. Bill Kristol came prepared: “There are 15 (Republican) primaries tonight.” He’s corrected – there are 16. But, hey! Romney is given North Dakota. But Kristol concedes the point that Romney is pretty close to toast.
Romney had a smile on his face as he gave his “How much of my own money have I spent?” speech. He noted that the three states he has lived (Michigan, Utah, Massachusetts) have all voted for him. Well, if you can’t win there, Mitt, you pretty much oughta give up. Then he goes all gloomy-Gus and annoyingly call-and-response at the same time, with the chorus being, “And they haven’t!” Hey, guess what, Mitt: Obama’s “Yes we can” is a heck of a lot more inspirational.
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Hillary Clinton declared, “I won’t let anyone swift-boat this country’s future!” And then my TV shut itself off. Too much hot air from all the candidates and pundits, I guess. Nothing’s going right tonight.