Olbermann Hardblogger: Get Ready To Rumble!!!

[KharmaTrain]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/



It's been observed that boxing is a spectacle in which men dressed in tuxedos sit around watching two guys in their underwear fight each other.

Well, surely, a presidential debate is a spectacle in which millions dressed in their underwear sit around at home watching two guys dressed in $4,000 suits fight each other.

The concept of the running, written, round-by-round scoring of a boxing match may be foreign to the younger reader. But in the caveman days before cable and Pay-Per-View, the "big" fights were most widely covered by a select few newspapermen permitted access by the promoters.

They would pound out on their typewriters a running description of each round, making their own judgments about which contestant had won which round and why, and telegraph it back to their offices, piece-by-piece. Depending on printing deadlines, the entire account might make it into the next day's papers, or just the first eight rounds, or just the first two. Headlines—as late as the '70s— might read "Muhammad Ali Ahead On Points In 6th."


This was great in the other debates...Keith updates every half hour or so. Here's wishing all happy debating!!! And please, please...play nice!

[Shopaholic]

1. This ought to be good.

His VP blogging was superb.