GOOD NIGHT, ALL. IT WAS A GREAT SPEECH, gas bags notwithstanding.
And here's another sign of the apocalypse: a poll on AOL (which is usually wingnut overweighted) rates Obama's speech as 69% EXCELLENT (actually the reverse statistics for any other poll with a democrat.)
Time for my other boyfriend on "Burn Notice." Nighty nite.
AND HEEEEERE'S RACHEL!
"It feels seismic. McCain's been taking notches out of him, but Obama's political stock has shot back up tonight."
I never thought I'd want Pat Buchanan back.
UPDATE: Okay, the speech is over, they're no longer trampling over decent speakers to regurgitate Rethug talking points.
Shit, Keith is now reading an AP story which -- SURPRISE - slags and trivializes Obama's speech. But Keith says, "It bears no resemblence to the speech we heard ... a remarkable failure of news reporting. Charles Babington (AP "reporter"), find new work."
THANKS FOR GETTING BACK TO FORM KEITH (AND EVEN TWEETY).
WOWEE ZOWEE: PAT BUCHANAN: "This is the finest convention speech, I've ever heard!" "It wasn't a liberal speech, it was a unifying speech."
Expect a rain of lizards tomorrow, the earth is spinning counter-clockwise!
Geebus, Chris Matthews is rambling on, but "People hate the politics of Carl Rove" he sometimes gets it right on the nose.
Never thought I'd want to hear less of Jesse Jackson, and more of Pat Buchanan.
Okay Jesse, you don't have to rush your words together to get 'em all out, 'cause they've finally handed you a mic.
And please stop mumbling.
And now Jesse is calling off a role call of every civil rights figures, and Chris Matthews is talking about Jesse's "restraint" (nutz, anyone?)
Although normally, I prefer Olberman to otherwise (UPDATE: well, frankly I love his weekly show, am waiting breathlessly for Rachels, but I was pissed off at the convention coverage)and I'm sure MSNBC is preferable to Fox or Cnn, but I've been switching back and forth between MSNBC and C-Span and I've been driven insane by the chattering drivel on MSNBC INSTEAD OF THE SPEECHES!
Some idiot Republican Murphy yesterday lying through his teeth, and don't get me started about Pat Buchanan, Tweety's incomprehensible sentences that seem to amount to the stupid Republican talking points, as far as I can translate the gibberish. Rachel Maddow trying to talk over an idiot with a megaphone shouting repeatedly "9-11 is an inside job." Keith talking over the opening singing of Will I.Am's "Yes We Can."
As the latest for instance that boils my blood, instead of the line up of generals and servicemen for Obama, Tweety going on and on again about the Republican hate speech about the Greek Columns on the stage, and Keith reading aloud FROM OBAMA'S UPCOMING SPEECH!Oh for fucking Christ's sake: SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Now instead of hearing from a Republican nurse without health insurance saying, "I can't afford four more years" there's a twittering brunette talking head PREVIEWING OBAMA'S SPEECH TO COME.
SHUT THE FUCK UP -- sure, blow all of Obama's lines to come, and ignore the people who have come so far to speak: including Barney Smith, a factory worker whose job has been sent overseas by Republicans, "We need a President who cares about the Barney Smiths, not Smith Barney."
OH SHUT THE FUCK UP, KEITH, TWEETY and ALL GAS BAGS!
C-Span is now covering the cool disco tune "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" and flag waving which I find much preferable.
Here's Senator Dick Durbin: I guess he's important enough so the gas bags will take a breath.
At last: Obama's bio and sweet silence from the chattering class.
TWEETY NOW NATTERING OVER A PRAY -- Which thank whoever, the minister has the grace and good sense to say, "But I want you all to end this prayer, in your own way and faith."
UPDATE: Okay I'm cooled down and tuning in for the gas bag deconstruction on MSNBC, which seems to be something that MSNBC does well. Tom Brokaw likes the speech enuf that he's "looking forward to this election."
Ranks near the top of "political theater for what he had to do."
But oh jeebus crist, Keith has to read from John McCain's press release, but he's disappointed that it's not very coherent.
And Keith says he hopes the Repubs have a better come back tomorrow -- sigh!
Chuck: "I don't know how the Republicans are going to top this, next week or 4 years from now." GOOD ANSWER.
I have no idea what Tweety just said about McCain's temperment, although Tom Brokaw seems to be able to translate.
Tom Brokaw likes Obama's punch!
Chuck: After four days of other speeches, this guy's is a cut above.
Although Brokaw sees the first three days of the convention as "mishagas" -- umm Chuck, that's only because you watched it butchered on MSNBC.
WOO HOO, RACHEL'S ABOUT TO COME UP, AND THANK THE SPAGHETTI MONSTER, SHE'S NO LONGER CHAINED TO HER NEMESIS THE BIZARRO WORLD PAT BUCHANAN.
OH, TWEETY, CUT YOUR STUPID THREE PARAGRAPH QUESTIONS SHORT!