This just got more and more hilarious over the next hour…and then the audio conked out as the official announcement started to come through at 2:34 in the MORNING. I have not had so much fun watching late night election returns since MSNBC’s After Hours during the Dem primaries in 2008.

…good night Gracie

I enjoyed CNN election coverage.. by far the best..

I find CNN’s hosts some of the more likable on air. However, I find CNN’s gimmicky tech stuff some of the most moronic on air. So watching their hosts just start pointing that out makes this some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a long while. Great.

The Iowa Caucus is just an event for CNN to make money because everybody knows that this caucus is overrated. This caucus does not represent the national sentiment.

I thought Velshi held it together pretty well there.  

They might be making money on something overrated, but man was that awesome coverage

CNN still had the best coverage of the Iowa Caucus

Edith and Carolyn saved us 2 hrs of waiting for the Iowa results..live on #CNNAfterDark enjoyed it very much

Mittens won it by 8pts. 

Sarcasm totally throws the CNN social graph software.. too many false positives too many false negatives, it’s bogus… not unlike their so-called “news”

CNN should let go like that more often…

I hate Foxnews.  The night before the Iowa COCKUS they had a 24 hate Paulathon.

Seriously.  Every show was trashing Paul continuously.  

It wasn’t the “best” in any objective sense – it was, however, the best PART-TEH, particularly since there are so. many. self-absorbed cartoon characters on CNN for the few self-aware types to play off of. It was like a show on a trekkie conference, or one of those conventions where everyone wears animal costumes, and MEANS it.  

(I almost feel sorry for Blitz. He’s that guy stuck in the corner in the dark in the Animal House-like frat, the one guy who’s unlucky enough to get arrested during the campus riot, then gets locked up over night in the same cell as the serial child molester due to be shipped off the next morning for castration, then something goes wrong with the paper work & the next morning …)I’m starting to think that, after Cooper, the person making the on-screen production choices for CNN is the real life Ron Burgundy.Mediaite hasn’t spent much bandwidth tonight on Fuppet News. I have theories:  1. FNC works best when it’s promoting some supremely silly meme as somewhere serious, when there’s actually something serious going on in the Real World. Having to cover the Real World confounds the Roger Aiiles oeuvre, because it’s so heavily dependent on scripting. It must really frost Ailes’ flaccid testicles that the single most perfect winger adlibber in the faux news biz is some lefty clown who comes on Comedy Central after The Daily Show.2. ….3. Profit!Actually, #s 2 & 3 are bull. The only theory I got was the first one. Fuppet News has zero ability to cover breaking events, unless it’s the extremely dry talent in charge of the chirons. 

It doesn’t even represent the IOWA sentiment. If you take out the votes that went to Ron Paul, the ones that were never going to go for anyone else anyway, over 26,000 votes, then the turn-out tonight was LESS than the turn-out in 2008 (I think Lawrence O’Donnell made this point.). And Obama ran away with Iowa in 2008 – plus if you added up all the members of the three ‘most successful’ GOP caucus organizations in Iowa – Mittens, Sploogie & RoPaul – you STILL don’t get to half the number of members that the Obama re-election campaign has there.

Okay, prediction time: Remember how so many “movement cons” (not just the ideologues but those that are mainly fixated on constipation) in 2008 were so unhappy with McCain? Romney-Whoever 2012 is going to make those folks LONG for McCain-Palin 2008. More concretely: watch how the percentage of GOP primary votes cast to total voter population goes DOWN during this 2012 cycle versus the 2008 cycle. Obviously, there’s no point in keeping track of what happens in the Dem primaries this time round, at least with the presidency, so what matters is whether the primaries support the picture of Romney getting MORE votes in 2012 than McCain did in 2008 – because otherwise, Obama has a huge lead to start with, and even if he loses 5 or 6 million to ennui or whatever, at least that many more new voters are going to come in from the “cell phone only” crowd to make that up & more.

One condition to this prediction: that nincompoop Perry made noises late this evening about “goin’ home to re-assess”; if that just means he’s found a way to avoid the next debate or two, and he’s still “in it, all the way” as he promised, then bets are off, because the Southland, particularly Texas (which unaccountably has joined Dixie – Hey, you made your own mess in Texas, Lone Starries, it’s up to you to fix it) will become a player; but I’m assuming he’s sayin’ Adios to all us non-Texan mofos & taken his little wooden rockin’ horsies on home to where people don’t talk so funny & ain’t always makin’ him feel like a dumb ass.

If Perry takes his tens of millions and leaves (Imma thinkin’ them tens of millions maybe took a major hit in the bottom line this past quarter, is the problem.), then maybe that Not Mittens Money goes to Gingrich (It’s starting to look at least possible.), but I really think Newt is so vulnerable in every state not named Georgia, and maybe even in Georgia, he’ll end up being this cycle’s Huckabee – he’s there, but he ain’t winnin’ nothin.

Depends on what, as Velshi put, media platorm you depended on. I spent most of the time on #iacaucus, #pourmecoffee, #andyborowitz & #jillebond, & that was certainly time a lot better wasted than on any of the cable news or “news” coverage.  

No, not 8 points – 8 VOTES. Big big difference. 

In fairness, CNN mostly doesn’t do “news”, it mostly does “hesaidshesaid analysis” plus gadgets. But Cooper comes on, adds some laughs, & yes, it gets more fun.   

Further in fairness, what possible “news” was there in this entire Iowa GOP Caucuses exercise anyway?  

It would have been news if they had big turnout – but no, and arguably the turnout was less, given the GOP can’t depend on RoPaul voters in November – no one can except RoPaul, and he sure ain’t running independent with the GOP holding a gun to son Randy’s future.

It would have been news if one candidate, ANY one candidate, emerged with a majority or even a clear plurality. But Tuesday morning 40% plus of likely caucus goers told pollsters they’d still not made up their minds, and that group appears to have fired off like corn mash addicts at a dart board. IOW this means almost HALF those few who actually showed up felt in the least ‘moved’ to vote FOR someone. Not exactly a hugely encouraging sign for GOP prospects, is it?

Tell you what this GOP primary season could well do: it could well give the voters a PUBLIC view in demonstration form of the PRIVATE polling that Frank Luntz & others did for the major GOP establishment insiders before this election clusterf**k even started – that at best, AT BEST, the most the GOP can hope for is some big unexpected stumble by Obama between now & November & then maybe – MAYBE – if the GOP has some half-way decent stiff in place, they might draw lucky with a “malaise” turnout. BTW this was the SAME plan the GOP had in 1936 – & that didn’t turn out so hot for them, either. 

Get it? The GOP insiders thought so little of their chances against Obama this year, they’ve gone and let a guy that no one likes – NO ONE – a Gordon Gekko-alike, a charmless social jerk who can’t go two consecutive days without contradicting himself, or even one entire day without telling a huge whopper of a lie, and a prime platinum member of the 0.001% in a year which is BOUND to be impressed by last year’s TIME Person of the Year. 

Hey, I know, I looked over a few times. So I bet this experience is really going to make you and your fellow Libertarians feel all warm fuzzy about FNC & the GOP, right?

More evidence of Leftist Media Hacks self-immolating. What a joy to see them on suicide watch as 2012 evolves and it becomes more clear by the day that their beloved OBAMO is toast. Wolf Blitzed, especially.

I noticed that as the hours got later, CNN was having a lot more fun…this is a great example of it.  I enjoyed watching CNN a lot last night, and I can’t say that often!

Methinks this poster is full of sound and fury, and may have had a full semester at a community college. Stay on your meds, sir.

Did they really bring the hologram idea back? Really, CNN? Really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/cnn-holograms-anderson-cooper-mocked_n_1182356.html

That was pretty funny.  I found myself watching CNN and MSNBC last night.  For some reason FNC, who I watch almost exclusively every day, seemed really boring. I was looking for Maddow and co. to be the cut-ups but their coverage and analyis was good and interesting. 

One of those moments generated by live television,  not a classic by historical standards but entertaining enough.

I collect parapraxes (slips of the tongue) and couldn’t help noticing Ali Velshi at 2:54. Explaining why Ron Paul is the most popular candidate on Twitter, he says “we know he’s been attacked – attracting a younger audience’. I have blogged this on http://publicslips.blogspot.com/

I went to bed when 97% of the precincts were in and Santorum was leading by 117, who will not win the nominaton and if he does and all he has going for him are right wing christian conservatives and voters who don’t approve of abortion under any circumstances, he’s not going to get independents and the republican base will blindly re-elect Obama. Perry is gone, Bachmann is gone, Gingrich is one angry dude, Romney’s a phony, Santorum can’t win the presidency, but the base is too stupid to see that Huntsman would be the most consistent conservative, just not crazy enough for the base.

Paul is easy to trash.  He is a Loon.

When the ratings come in MSNBC and CNN will be at the bottom and FOX News at the top just as it is each and every night.  There is a reason for that.

Because FOX appeals to the lowest common denominator?

This is news worthy?

tgzzzz I must say…..best analysis of the night. 

Well said. It was brilliant stuff. CNN was must see TV last night. Just couldn’t stop watching it.

No, you have to be literate and able to think to follow what goes on on FOX. MSNLSD and CNN you need only be a lemming or one of the Borg (Part of the collective) to be able to understand their offerings.

You’re right. It must be why FOX is always at the top. The same way Transformers always takes the box office and music like Party Rock Anthem stays #1 for 16 straight weeks. 

They probably thought no one was watching.

This is actually the type of story I thought Mediaite was supposed to present. 

It is so sad to see what Mediaite usually reports – negative item after negative item about conservatives, cheerleading for the Democrats, omission of any negative news about liberals.  You will never see an Obama flub reported here.  It’s the Mediaite Liberal agenda which rules the day.

It was a squeaker for Romney last night, but I’m glad he won.

It’s like the Iowa caucus last night.  Fox is the only conservative station.  The others divide their ratings up among all viewers.  it added up- they would outnumber Fox.

I watched CNN until the wee hours,and thought that the phone call from the two ladies on election team in Iowa – was hysterical.  Good job last night CNN. 

Iowa, never has so much been spent by so many for so little.  Never has the outcome of an election been more meaningless.  In a state where nearly half the republicans voting still believe Obama was not born an American, what do you expect.

Agreed, that was the best part of the evening.

So, it’s Mediaite’s fault that “conservative” scum bags do “conservative” scum bag things in the media and are reported by Mediaite?

It is about time CNN make fun of their own set.

You are delusional.  Are you a Sarah Palin supporter?  

I’m running through these hos like Drano…ya, about the same quality as Fox!  :)

Ya, right?  Honestly, Rachel Maddow is a good anchor, she’s just not a fake “Journalist” like Megyn or Brett.  We know where she stands and she doesn’t pretend to be impartial.  But she’s a smart cookie.

Why don’t I watch CNN?

They’d be right.

Of the cellar-dwellers?

I fell asleep. Watched for 5 minutes to see who won. Promptly fell asleep again.

Erin’s sexy though. They should’ve focused on her more. Don’t mind her “flicking”.

I recorded all my lectures so I’d have more time to take LSD.

You know, this kind of reminded me of that old Orbitz commercial back in 2008. It goes something like:

Martin Polulski-BlatzOrbitz traveler Wellness CenterSusan first came to us with a problem booking vacations.She’d be one click away when her fear that the price would drop left her paralyzed.So we started her treatment with Orbitz Price Assurance to create a safe booking environment.Ah. The joy on Susan’s face when she booked that trip.(Pause) This is important stuff we’re doing.If only I could find that video..

My mistake. Amended.

“CNN,” the “Comedy News Network.”

Nah…Communist News Network, is much more appropriate.
An upgraded version of trash “News” TV.