OK, Christianist lunacy. But what a tight band!

So says Gabor Steigart in Der Spiegel:  Read more 

Reuters:

Obama did not appear in public after the voting ended in West Virginia, but a campaign spokeswoman said he left Clinton a congratulatory message on her mobile phone.

Didn’t appear? What’s he doing? Sulking?  Read more 

Swing State Project has a MS-01: Results Thread. So far it looks very good. WillBardwell is live blogging the results. Oxford has had a very high turnout. Cotton Mouth is also following returns. It looks like a terrific night for Missippi Democrats.

Well, I’m going to bed. I have to paint some trim tomorrow! If somebody’s tracking the popular vote totals…. And Nebraska…

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12:04 AM 67% - O 26% = 41% margin, 90% reporting. I think I’m about to call it a night. Our pet OFB is already trying to start a new wankfest! So cute. [deleted]

11:28 PM 67% - O 26% = 41% margin, 82% reporting. The word the press needs to be using is “repudiation.” And not just of Obama, but also, perhaps even especially, of itself. After all, if anyone believed these guys, why would they even vote? At the most, it looks like the press depressed the turnout.

11:10 PM 66% - O 27% = 39% margin, 76% reporting.

11:08 66% - O 27% = 39% margin, 71% reporting.

11:01 PM H 66% - O 27% = 38% margin, 69% reporting. Bellwether Mason: H 72% - O 19% = 53% margin. Now that seems a little high. Let’s not run up the score.

10:36 PM H 65% - O 28% = 37% margin, 61% reporting. Over at Cheetopia, they’re reverse engineering the bar to 68%. How long do you think it will take that one to propagate. A whole news cycle? Half a news cycle?

10:36 PM H 65% - O 28% = 37% margin, 58% reporting. And so much for that high/low information shit. AP:

Overall, Clinton was running unusually strong across virtually all types of voters. She even led among many groups that Obama typically wins, including men, whites under age 30, college graduates, independents and the very liberal.

So, even though the percentage of college graduates is lower than other states, those there are voted for Clinton too.

10:18 PM H 65% - O 28% = 37% margin, 54% reporting. A beating.

So, Obama didn’t campaign. Does that mean he gets half the delegates, like MI and FL? (Of course, the “did not campaign” is a terminological inexactitude, since he spent a bundle on the teebee, and our famously free press is campaigning for him anyhow.) Looks to me like Barack “No Mas” Obama outsmarted himself, just like in MI, by trying to delegitimize a Hillary win by not contesting it. Hardly Presidential. And this looking ahead to McCain schtick makes it look like the pair of ’em is is measuring the drapes and the basketball court for the White House before they’ve really won the victory. And what does it matter of Obama’s looking ahead, if he’s going to lose?

10:00 PM H 65% O 28%, 42% reporting.

9:43 PM H 64%, O 29%, %30 reporting. Nothing from Mason.

9:37 PM H 61% O 32%, 10% reporting. That’s the kind of margin I like to see. But I don’t know enough to know if it will hold up. Bellwether Mason County still at 1%.  Read more 

One Corporate Spying Lawsuit Goes to Jury, but This Isn’t the First Time a Company in Media Baron’s Empire Has Been Accused of Hacking

Today a federal jury in Los Angeles resumes deliberations in a corporate espionage lawsuit filed against a company owned by Rupert Murdoch seeking $1 billion in damages.

Two previous lawsuits alleging similar claims of corporate espionage by Murdoch’s company, however, never made it to a courtroom, and a fourth is still pending. Critics say the company’s business tactics extend beyond playing hardball to predatory piracy and even illegal conduct.  Read more 

Then again, perhaps they’ve already got his autograph.

“No flash?”  Read more 

About that Latin@ vote: Yglesias quoting WaPo:

Joe Matthews started paying close attention to local news in the Los Angeles media market and found that the Spanish-language channels were substantially more substantive than the English-language ones. And guess which language they speak on L.A.’s top-rated local newscast? Spanish, of course, perhaps because “in Spanish, viewers got fewer soft features and more deeply reported, longer pieces.”

“Substantially more substantive…” Could that have anything to do….  Read more 

Garçon! More cognac! In a clean glass! Oh well. I’m not creative:

I was handed the Journal on my Saturday flight from New York to San Francisco on United Airlines. And the Harwood/Seib piece was so out of touch with the current zeitgeist that I found myself repeatedly checking the date at the top of the page to make sure the flight attendant hadn’t mistakenly given me a paper that someone had left on the plane a decade ago.

And why?  Read more 

Dependable Renegade has the NotJenna wedding pix. With appropriate and richly deserved commentary.  Read more 

Say howdy.

Classic:

You can almost hear the yawn in the headline. But check the paragraph starting “Some say…”  Read more 

First, I just wanted to give a shout out to Xan, the comments were a bit much and … well… just wanted to say hey, good to see ya.

Will Barack and Hillary be the political Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon  Read more 

I left this in a comment over at TalkLeft, but I think it’s worth a post here. And now, truly, I’m off to lay down more paint.

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… so here’s what I believe about a unified ticket, with Hillary as VP:  Read more 

UPDATE 8:08 FOX gives meta-analysis of the decade:

The results highlighted her supporters’ resistance to accepting the narrative that Obama is the inevitable nominee.

From the Department of No Shit, Sherlock….

UDDATE 7:34 CNN projects Hillary the winner. H 0%, O 0%, with 0% of precincts reporting. Hey, if we kill this story we can leave early. Wanna head over to my place and compare Obama tatoos? No, you first!

UPDATE 7:00 First AP exit polls. Apparently Mason County is the bellwether (though I don’t know how authoritative Suffolk is).

UPDATE 6:58 Still “Missing!” Obama unites the party by phoning it in from Missouri (see the CNN caption).

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One interesting thing about the WV primary — apart from the bone-deep, irredeemable racism shared, nay, revelled in, by its benighted, uncreative populace, and, indeed, by all Hillary supporters — is that it’s a referendum on our famously free press, as well as a vote for who should be the Democratic nominee for President.

Why? Because since forever, but in grossly obvious fashion starting with NH, where all the shouting heads and even the stenographers were openly rooting for Hillary to lose, our famously free press has been trying to choose our President for us, just like they did in 2000 and 2004. They’ve run endless WWTSBQ stories, they’ve run Obama hagiography, the Times has done its classic routine of solemnly investigating the Augean stables after the Pony has already left, and they have truly pumped up the Mighty Wurlitzer and are playing the Hillary Hate Theme as hard as ever they can. (They do this on everything else, so why would we expect them to behave any differently in something so trivial as an elektion?) And then, of course, there’s all the advertising on the teebee that Obama, who has more money than God, has been airdropping all over the state, although he has not deigned to appear there personally, not wishing to be be seen within camera shot of failure.

So, if the media can’t swing the election as they are trying to do, you would think that would be a referendum on their performance and power. And so it would be, if we had a functioning media critique. Too bad about that, but you can’t make an omelette without a little oil in the pan, I suppose. Double shot? Cinnamon?

Bringing us to expectations:  Read more 

Tommorrow’s news today.

Tune in tonight for the latest episode of WWTSBQ! Hear Hillary’s campaign obituary (again)

Watch pinheaded pundits pontificate pointlessly!

See Donna Brazile-nut toss Democrats under the bus.

Listen to Tweety misogynize shamelessly with the He-Man Woman Haters Club Chorus.

Find out how a landslide defeat in a swing state is a huge victory for Barack Obama!

Special bonus: a preview of tomorrow’s “new and improved” wankfest!

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