avert your eyes, talk of american media (with a dash of politics)!

[regala_electra]

I totally did not realize that The Daily Show wasn't going to be on last night. I am now breathing a sigh of relief that it will be on tonight. Oh TDS. Never leave me.

Yesterday for many, many hours, I watched the coverage of the Democratic National Convention. I am not going to state my politics one way or the other in this post. Instead I am going to say that anyone else who decides to watch this stuff, if you have cable. do not bother watching the CNN coverage. Dear GOD. CNN is so unwatchable. MSNBC is weirdly scrappy in their coverage ("oh hai, we're tryin' our best, guys!") and half of the pundits on the show are INSANE and last night Keith Olbermann told Joe Scarborough to "get the shovel out" when he was ranting about something (basically telling Joe he was full of bullshit) and Keith handled Chris Matthews' general crazy with befuddled amusement.

Then Rachel Maddow laid the subtle smackdown on Pat "What About Whitey's Burden?" Buchanan about the 1992 conventions and he TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT (that she was talking negatively about him) and it was AWESOME.

(For those who don't know, and um, I think y'all have better things to do with your life than yell at MSNBC in the afternoon after work, Pat Buchanan did this huge rant at the RNC in 1992 about the urgency of the ongoing culture war and specifically attacking the democrats for furthering homosexual rights. Rachel Maddow is a lesbian. She was talking about how it felt to listen to the Clintons speak in 1992 and how she felt like these were people who did not hate her and how strongly she felt that and hasn't felt that since last night's speeches.)

However for those who MIGHT want to watch the convention (Barack Obama's speech is Thursday at the close of the convention, tonight Hillary Clinton delivers a speech) let me tell you that CSPAN is the place to be. They covered all the speeches whereas the ever-faithful 24 hour news channels only covered parts of speeches and after the close of the convention, announced where you could find more information on the internet. So. During the boring parts in-between speeches, I totally switched over to MSNBC to get myself riled up. Then I'd watch the speeches because I'm a NERDY LOSERFACE.

Tonight, I got four bottles left of my MIke's Hard Pomegranate Lemonade and I plan on playing a drinking game.

Oooh and why am I watching speeches all this week? Well because my internet at home? Is totally FUBAR'd. I have no idea when it'll be resolved so for now, I must brace myself. I shall go watch very stupid pundits say very dumb things.

And now I cross my fingers for some fisticuffs or something to break out between the pundits tonight (but again, I am AVOIDING CNN. They suck. They suck so hard and they're so bad at it that they can't even get paid to suck people off.)

Comments

[pippilottah.livejournal.com]

There was no Daily Show last night? Good. I was getting really frustrated with refreshing torrent pages + comedy central's website so I could watch it. Can't wait for it to come back.

[luminosity]

I'm right there with you. I alternated between KO at MSNBC (in the hope that he'd finally ka-bong Chris Matthews--sigh...almost) and C-Span. C-Span's coverage is like watching a baseball game without the constant color commentary. Refreshing and I didn't feel stupid or like I was being mocked.

YAY!

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

New Daily Show (and Colbert Report!) on tonight. They'll be running it Tuesday-Friday for this week and next week as well (for the RNC coverage).

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

CSPAN's coverage was really quite delightful. I could form opinions on my own! I wasn't constantly being asked to consider what the Republicans thought (shockingly, according to the Republican talking heads at CNN, the Democrats drool and Republicans RULE! Who would have thought? Thank you, CNN for your unbiased coverage in...asking the other side what they thought about their competition.) or whether the PUMAs thought they were properly being catered to.

Chris Matthews is so crazy. I would love Keith to roll up a newspaper and whack him on the nose all "down, boy!" His long ramble on Hollywood's treatment of the Civil War inspired a total WTF moment for me.

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

I'm so done with CNN it's not even funny. I tolerated them for about five minutes last night before I wanted to run screaming from the room.

Today I found the speeches from last night I wanted to see on Youtube without the blithering talking heads. \o/

CSPAN, got it. *nods*

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

I think CSPAN's website also puts up the speeches quite fast as well. :D CNN's coverage is complete madness. It's like, "Okay we're covering an event about Democrats FOR Democrats. Republicans, what did you guys think?"

"They failed."/"They didn't do what they need to do."/"The Democrats are in trouble."

CNN Guy: "See, we're totally unbiased!"

I strongly recommend MSNBC for post-speech coverage. They are a couple of Nerf whiffle bats away from attacking each other and it's hiiiilarious. And they have this huge crowd behind them as they talk and the crowd was pretty much made of win.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

No internet? Oh God, how are you coping (other than resorting to inventing drinking games)