Posted on 11/03/2004 6:36:47 AM PST by AuburnJenn
I read 10,100 post on FR. I did not watch any TV. It was way cool.
FR, Fox and Coast to Coast on the radio
Fox News (cable channel)
local Fox affiliate (had Shep Smith on)
some ABC, tiny smattering of NBC, one barf moment of CBS where I watched Dan Blather do his best to come up with some kind of scenario where Kerry could win without Ohio
None... I bounced between FR, NRO, RCP. I listened to Hugh Hewitt online. He was much more reassuring and sane than the networks. He was exactly all I could handle. Hugh deserves some credit & recognition for keeping his cool while others (KLo?!?!) lost it.
Ugh! Couldn't stand even LOOKING at the T.V. yesterday!! F.R. all the way, baby!
I went back and forth from all channels...and noticed that none of them ever had the same electoral counts. What ticked me off was that both CBS and ABC had Ohio in the Bush column until they got a call from the Kerry campaign saying he was going to contest the state. They than, removed Ohio from the Bush column despite the fact that they admitted Bush had won it.
I also noticed that Dandy Dan had a direct line to the Kerry camp as he almost verbatim described the speech that Edwards was going to make. Even this morning I'm noticing discrepancies in electoral numbers.
FR and Fox. Brit Hume is far and away the best political journalist on television. It's not even close.
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rather looked like he had just experienced a bad rectal exam about 1:00am. brokaw sounded totally depressed. chrissie looked like someone had kicked him in the nads. juan williams ( the exit polls were way off ) made his first intelligent statement in 3 years. how could you not watch all this?
Fox News with comic relief at CBS and CNN ocasionally
FNC and FR til 3 am.
FOX
FREE REPUBLIC and Foxnews.com. But my daughter and I tuned in toward the end to the MSM to see the anguished looks on the faces of Kerry's friends. Dan Rather and Wolf Blitzer were especially interesting studies. Evidently they continued to labor under the impression that if they kept adding, things would sum up differently.
Bill Kristol had a few good moments. He stressed how unique Bush's coattails were -- in two straight Congressional elections he won Senate and House seats.
Michael Barone's analysis was the only truly bright spot, but by about 2 in the morning I couldn't follow him. I finally packed it in at 3:30 am, only to find out when I woke up that nothing changed. I figured if I went to sleep they would finally call New Mexico, Nevada or Iowa for President Bush. No such luck.
When I switched channels during advertisements the other channels were worse (Jeff Greenfield and Wolf Blitzer's cheerleading for Kerry was especially egregious).
On MSNBC all I could concentrate on was Andrea Mitchell's hideous skin -- she needs dermabrasion fast! Ron Reagan Jr. needs an eye job. Joe Scarborough looks like he has already had cosmetic surgery. Anyway, MSNBC commentators looked like "Extreme Makeover" contestants.
FR while listening to Michael Reagan
was at the Republican Headquarters in Pasadena....FOX ONLY!!!!!
I watched it here. NO more MSM for me.
In this order...
Fox... 80%.. Both of them here.
ABC... 15%.. Easy to spell
MSNBC.. 5%.. Watched Chris Matthews melt down. Enjoyed that.
CBS... NOT ONE DAMN BIT.
Who needs any stinkin' MSM? I followed the election here, from the start of the exit polls to 3 in the morning MST....long, long, long day!!!!
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