Wonkette
- AND NOW WE ARE ALL DUMBER: The early Nielsen ratings are in for last night’s debate, and they’re a full freaking 42% higher than the ratings from last Friday’s presidential debate, making it the most watched debate since Bush/Clinton/Perot in 1992. Jesus, we are a bizarre country. [The Live Feed]
THAT WEIRD DEBATE
sure, but that’s because we were all waiting for tina fey to come out and make biden give her panties back….
Everyone tuned in like many folks do for a NASCAR race, in the vain hope of seeing a crash and someone going up in flames.
Doggone it, boy howdy, you betcha. She said a whole lotta nothin’.
We all wanted to watch “winky”
And they were all trying to get on Wonkette, thus the server meltdown.
Did the numbers approach the numbers pro wrestling gets? That is the real indicator of what these “numbers” mean.
In all fairness, the rules for the accompanying drinking games were much more creative for the VP debates.
I enjoy how Palin was praised for knowing how to evade questions in their entirety. Truly a strong showing of bullshitting.
I’d rather watch Bible Spice make an ass out of herself at a debate podium as opposed to an inaugural one. Let’s hope those “undecided” voters thought so too.
i remember old number problems like this. But, do I divide the 1992 by the 43% or multiply?. God I’m so rusty.
I really like that Tina Fey though, I think she’d make a super awesome president.
ManchuCandidate: Truth.
shortsshortsshorts: Yeah, that’s totally politically maverickolicious there.
Why do 42% Americans hate John and Barry?
We are a nation of trainwreck gawkers and misery wallowers.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
One third of Merka was moaning, one third of Merka was jerking off, one third of Merka was just curious. That was all the same third.
WagTehGod: I thought that was Liz Lemon.
in related news limbaugh’s audience is quasi-suicidal! he’s trying to buck them up but it doesn’t seem to be working. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK I watched and waited for the crash which never came, with drinks at my side. So yes I helped inflate those viewer numbers.
And like all interactive media, viewers got to see the ending they chose.
Only some viewers are dumb and Dumberer, even when presented with substance over mindless banter.
I cant wait to see barbie and walnutz’z concession speech i hope shes weeping and maybe he’ll vapor-lock.
Best debate moment: When Sarah Palin called Dear Leader “Kim Jungle”
‘Also’ is the new ‘Um’
monty: McCain will give his version of “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore”.
It was a tossup between the debate and the cubs game. Being a cubs fan, I already knew the outcome of the game…
FAIL!
It’s the same psychology that make people watch high wire circus acts: the hope that someone will fall, preferably fatally.
No — watching the woman who said the following could not have made us dumber:
We need to make sure that education in either one of our agendas, I think, absolute top of the line. My kids as public school participants right now, it’s near and dear to my heart. I’m very, very concerned about where we’re going with education and we have got to ramp it up and put more attention in that arena.
SayItWithWookies: Wow, it is even worse written down.
dano: hopefully mclame — unlike nixon — will mean it!
At least in ‘92 we got “I’m all ears” for a soundbite.
graceless: We all wanted to watch “winky”
OOOOH! The Teletubby? The purple one with the purse and thousands of scalpel-sharp teeth lurking just out of sight inside its moronically-grinning pie hole? The one Pat Dobsonwell was SO! ANGRY! with because he couldn’t blow it anonymously in a church mens’ room? AAAH OH! oh? Big hug!
OT, why do those TeeVeeJeezO’Nazis™ consistently vilify children’s cartoon characters as evil agents of the creeping gayness? Is it the sing-alongs? The dancing? The unintelligible cartoon nattering that sounds like a Speaking In Tongues Spelling Bee? Or do they hate children and want them to have only horrific bible stories of saints being burned alive or nailed to logs as their sole entertainment? I choose to believe the aforementioned holey-rollers get all sideways and menstrual on Winky, Spongebob, Bugs Bunny and Thomas the Tank Engine because they lack any sort of discernible penises. I guess if you’re a teevee-preaching, pompous, self-hating caricature of a micropenis-wielding, shrieky theatre fag you tend to hate the things that most remind you of… you. Girlfriend. Snappity snap snap snap oh yes I did.
Back to the topic at hand. Oh please, please PLEASE merciful, sweet, bearded, floating white baby Jeeeeeeebus, in Your Infinite Wisdom and in appreciation of Your Most Profound and Witty Sense of Humor, OH PLEASE make Palin debate the purple Teletubby on teevee. If You do I promise I will go to church EVERY DAY that doesn’t end in the letter “y” and take ALL of my meds, so please cut me this one teeny tiny fucking break, ok Mr. Saviour Sir? It would be the highest-rated debate EVERS! It would RAWK! It would KICK ASS! And it would illustrate the finest example of we are so utterly, inescapably doomed. I’d laugh if my lips weren’t chapped.
Moron-Purple Thing ‘08!
C’mon, Bible Spice is way more entertaining in a Reality TV Show kind of way than Johnny McPoopypants. In any proper reality TV show, he would have been voted off the island long ago.
Breaking News–Sarah Palin is smarter than a fifth grader–but not by much.