[I wrote this on November 3, 2010, but forgot to publish it. Meh, it's not that stimulating, but enjoy]:

I’m as pissed as a tea partier at Christine O’Donnell’s Victory Party. Not because of Tuesday night’s election results; they sucked, but whatever, I’m ovah it. Rather, I’m pissed because of the awful election returns coverage.

As soon as I got home, I turned on NBC—it’s no secret that Brian Williams is the most trusted name in news in my book. My friends—Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski—had braced me for some amazing coverage across the networks of NBC. And I was pumped. But what did I find? Mario Lopez. Ugh. For those of us that consider watching election returns a sport—and I absolutely do—Tuesday night was horrible. My grievances below.

  • Biggest Loser: NBC decided to push their coverage back an hour so we could watch the latest episode of Biggest Loser. Are you surrious?? I know everyone likes to point at one thing and say “This is what’s wrong with America”, but fo real: THIS is what’s wrong with Ehmurrika…that we’d rather watch clinically obese people try and do exceedingly easy tasks like climbing a flight of stairs than see where our country is headed politically.
  • Chuck Todd—where you at? One of the only reasons I turn to the networks of NBC—aside from Brian Williams’ glorious tan—is to see Chuck Todd’s brilliant commentary. That man is a genius. And yet for some reason, he got like 20 seconds of airtime. Come on–the man who’s normally on TV throughout the day, from the Today Show to the Nightly News and everything in between (including his own show)–and you pick tonight of all nights to give him the night off? Ugh.
  • Where were the charts? The graphs? I need graphics, people! And I’m not talking about CNN’s holographic bullshit. I’m talking about moving pie charts and bar graphs engulfing the commentators and taking over the studio. Instead, I got a hologram of the Capitol building. Useless…utterly useless. Come on people, what am I supposed to do: listen to you?

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True Story: Brian Williams never went to college. Also, he’s funnier than Tina Fey.* I learned both at a commencement address I saw him give.

*Okay, maybe not Tina Fey. But definitely Alec Baldwin. Even considering the NPR fundraising ads.

January 31st, 2011 at 1:05 pm

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