Election 08

[tealin]

I know that almost everyone reading this watched the election coverage on one of the major news networks, or else the Stewart/Colbert special. Nothing wrong with that, I would have liked to see the Stewart/Colbert special myself, but I am fantastically glad that I stayed at work and watched the webcast of BBC World because wow, that was surprisingly fun.



I tried to caricature everyone they talked to after about 6:30 pm PST (complete guess at the time). In the image above are both candidates, a commentator with a crazy face who kept turning out like Richard Nixon, Nancy Pelosi, Dennis Kucinich(sp?), a New Yorker by the last name of Rubin who appeared to be drunk when they cut to him, and the poor map jockey who was SO TIRED by about 1am EST that he was just sort of flapping at the graphics and rambling. Who was the host? He was fantastic. DAVID DIMBLEBY! I want to give Mr Dimbleby a cookie. Most of his humour was in the delivery, but I tried to jot down some of my favourite quips of his regardless:

HOST: While you're talking, this is television, and we've got the Phoenix Boy's Choir, trying to cheer up the Republicans ... [long pause with barely audible choir] ... Well, there we are.
GUEST: I don't know if that'll do it.
HOST: People can be cheered by all sorts of things.

We go now to Nancy Pelosi, where is she, Washington or New York ... [footage of a crowd applauding Harry Reid] Doesn't look like the Nancy Pelosi I know...

And Republicans, not looking so cheerful, as we shall see in a moment ... [waiting for video link-up] if we can find ... non-cheerful Republicans ...?

We can go by the magic of television, which is indeed entirely magical, to Kenya!

[upon showing a still photo of Bush this evening, trying to relate what he said in his phone call to Obama, trails off into:] And an awesome night, as he called it ... and the president ... well, it's a photograph.

Here, you can see him in action!

But my favourite part was when Simon Schama and John Bolton were on the panel together. Mr Schama was just so happy to be there, and Mr Bolton was getting progressively grumpier as Obama started taking the lead and the folks in the studio and on assignment began to talk like he had it in the bag. We cut back to the studio from one remote correspondent, and:

BOLTON: [Something about it being 'interesting to see the'] joy in the hearts of the BBC to announce the defeat of the Republican party.
SCHAMA: [cracks up]
HOST: Steady on, steady on!

Comments

[thearchduchess.livejournal.com]

Thank you - it was one of the first icons I ever 'snagged' of t'Internet :)

Some of the people they got on were absolutely barmy, but Dimbleby was obviously having a laugh with some of them.

Of course, Auntie Beeb is currently best at lying and offending beloved comedy actors.

He was getting angriest when they started acting as though it was a dead cert Obama would win. His bottom lip unpeeled from his face even more. I'm not sure whether she was Scottish - I was also freaked out by Nancy Pelosi, I'd never seen her before and was amused by her rather plastic-y face.

I nearly fell of the sofa when they trotted out Eddie Izzard. His accent is all over the place at the mo, but is clearly authoritative enough for him to be a valid political commentator!