“Prayers can help and so can the government,” Bush says. He’s mealy-mouthed and looking tired, even more bored than usual. He’s actually shifting his weight from side to side like an incontinent kindergartner. Another fucking national disaster. Can’t he get in a nice bike ride and a decent night’s rest while the country decides the President thing?
No, no. There have to be more damned cheap buildings collapsing under weather in the south.
They cut into a congressman arguing vehemently for Obama’s victories last night to show the President making a two-minute sneer about prayers helping the storm-victims best of all.
Sometimes they break to the breaking new not-so-surprising news about Heath Ledger, and I watch him and Michelle Williams walk across red carpets in love with each other.
I’m sorry about the storms, and it is big news. But the fetishistic coverage as compared to what happened on Super Tuesday is astonishing, echoed on two different channels. The election spin, when they remember to cover it, is so obvious and aching in contrast to what the internet is saying and the nation had to say that I almost have to admire their balls. Almost.
It’s the same blather from last night, about the big states, and Clinton’s dominance of the Latino vote. Every now and then they’ll flash up that Obama won a lot of states, highlighting boring ones like Illinois instead of discussing his incredible, wide-margin wins in so many disparate states. They don’t talk about his winning of Missouri and Colorado, traditional bellweathers and battlegrounds. They don’t talk about Obama’s “white vote” the way they wave around Clinton and the Latinos. They don’t say that it’s at all exceptional that some of the most white-bred and whitebread states came out for Obama because the country refuses to vote down the race and gender lines the media draws for us.
It comes down to Hillary scooping up a bunch of states that go Democratic anyway, while Obama excited in places distant and impassioned across this country. But by all means, let’s discuss how surprising it is she commanded loyalty from long-time party loyalists.
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