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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:35 PM
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What channel will you watch on Tuesday?
Or will you surf? I watched the debates on cspan, but will want to see the local updates too. The coverage is mostly unwatchable on the networks, forget about cnn etc.

Any thoughts?
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Dickie Flatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:36 PM
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1. C-SPAN, absolutely
Or maybe I'll just constantly refresh one of the network's results page - the only thing they're good for these days.
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:38 PM
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3. c-span for me also. I'll spend a few hours at democratic headquarters
with my friends.
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Comicstripper Donating Member (876 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:13 PM
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21. How does their election coverage work?
I'm a new C-Span convert...just wondering. Do they have a host calling each state as it's polls close, or what?
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NDFan Donating Member (154 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:36 PM
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2. Probably NBS/MSNBC
And my 'puter will be on DU.
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TimeToGo Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:39 PM
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4. Computer on DU
TV on BET Jazz :)
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MidwestMomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:39 PM
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5. Well, ABC with Peter Jennings was pretty entertaining last election
Peter gets very emotional.

I'll probably channel surf.
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Maiden England Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:39 PM
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6. half of me thinks Faux,
that way I can be right up to date with their efforts to steal it, to get a head start on rebuttal.

Hopefully though I'll be at a victory party, and I won't have to watch them at all
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:40 PM
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7. DU
with c-span for audio in the background
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dsewell Donating Member (437 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:40 PM
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8. "Which website will you be checking on Tuesday?"
I believe this is the 2004 translation of the question.
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derbstyron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:40 PM
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9. FOX news
Sorry but I'm evil. I don't want to miss when they break out the kool aid. It will be the most fun I've had in ages. Of course, I'll have to flip to NBC to watch flush start sucking down the tranquilizers again.
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AnIndependentTexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:41 PM
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10. Leave the tv on, but listen to AIR AMERICA
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alonso_quijano Donating Member (240 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:42 PM
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11. Comedy Central, of course...
JS is one of the only media figures to tell it like it is!
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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:52 PM
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14. I'd love it if JS anchored a Comedy Central election night special!
Maybe I'll contact them. great thought alonso!
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:04 PM
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19. Daily Show is doing an election night special
I saw a commercial for it the other day--Daily Show live election night special. Woo-hoo! I loves me some Jon Stewart!
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sampsonblk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:43 PM
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12. MSNBC and Fox
MSNBC for News, Fox for gloating value. It'll feel good to see those suckers cry.
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Kokonoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:51 PM
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13. CBS , I like Dan. But I still miss Walter.
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 08:59 PM
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15. FOX!!
Wouldn't miss it for the world.
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Jeff1965 Donating Member (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:03 PM
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16. Faux!
Have to watch O'Reilly and his "no spin zone" spin the outcome. I will also go to the local PBS for the state results.
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milkyway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:03 PM
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17. half dozen channels, dozen web sites.
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JPJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:04 PM
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18. What's happening on Tuesday? n/t
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:23 PM
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28. LOL
Good one! :)
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:11 PM
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20. Air America, C-Span and a little of MSNBC
n/t
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highplainsdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:15 PM
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22. I'll probably channel surf compulsively,
as usual. Even Faux News at times.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:16 PM
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23. The insides of my eyelids. I just cannot force my tummy to go through
that. :hi:
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Weembo Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:18 PM
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24. Definitely CBS
Last election, Dan Rather had the misfortune of having the worst, and I mean the worst, set of one-liners given to him by his writing staff that I have ever heard in my life. I'll post tomorrow with the ones I wrote down.
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Lone_Wolf_Moderate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:18 PM
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25. I'll flip between them all, just to see how they do.
I'll watch Fox, just to see the look on Hannity's face when Kerry wins.
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:18 PM
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26. Process of elimination:
I like Dan, sort of, since he reminds me of my youth and watching him in Dallas on 11/22/63 but he narrated that audio track about the Zapruder film before it was released and lied about the head snap...and his Ratherisms last time in 2000 were too much to take so....

Brokaw, is OK, except that he has that speech impediment which is getting worse, he's getting wistful since it is his last election, and if Rush is gonna be on, I can't listen to that gasbag being portryed as anything but an addicted buffoon, and a felon, though unconvicted as of yet. Wait a while. Plus Andrea Mitchell and Russert are like the Anorectic/FatBoy duo and repulsive to stare at

Jennings' problem is that he's just so matter-of-fact. I find him emotionless and there's a horrible chance that Cokie and George (Will and Steph) will be there with their snotty accents.

CNN and Blitzer and Woofwoof (a nom-de-plume which I coined) - off the charts - I'm boycotting due to utter revulsion. The automatic gainsaying of Dems has turned me off to their political coverage forever.

MSNBC: I hate the way that Tweety claims he's from Philly, my home town, and he is so reviled here that it is probably dangerous for him to come into town. He's a schmuck...and a flip-clopping press whore. I hear his wife is nice...maybe she'd like to stop by my place for a drink with my family as we celebrate, 'cause I hear she's a liberal Dem. Good for her - I hope he chokes.

PBS: Lehrer B+ but the rest of them are iffy,m except Schorr and I don't know that he'll be on TV.

C-Span: Like watching clothes dry. I recall in 1992, someone called on the Rethug line and said that she was going to put her American Flage away for 4 years since Clinton was elected. The moderator smiled a little bit. Didn't like that at all.

Fox: Can you say Schadenfreude? But I dont' know if I can watch them squirm for 6 hours. On second thought, maybe I can!!

Comedy Central: Somehow, I'm not in a laughing mood. Under other circumstnces I might be but I'm scared to death, and I feel like when you're in the wings ready to go on for a role in a play and you're waiting for your cue.

I guess I'll set up 3 TV's invite some liberal friends and drink and PRAY TO GOD. And work those channel changers to death. As I once said to my friend about his girlfriend's extreme physical needs and his exhaustion from his residency..."You can't have too many alkaline batteries in a house, if you know what I mean"

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kohodog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:26 PM
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29. Remember David Bowie in "The Man who fell to Earth?"
Your post reminded me of the scene where he was watching a hundred or so televisions all on different channels and taking it all in. Sounds like you on election night!!!
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Fiendish Thingy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-27-04 09:22 PM
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27. I don't have cable/dish, so probably CBS or PBS n/t
but I will be listening to Air America, and hopefully spending lots of time here!
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