Hello journalistic scum! I guess you thought you’d be able to just show up and “cover” the election-night party of one of the major-party candidates for president, seeing as it’s a “newsworthy” “event.” Well, too bad, suckers! Mitt Romney is a firm believer in the immutable laws of supply and demand, and he won’t “supply” you with room to write about him without “demanding” some cash. Nobody gets to get into the Mittquarters unless they pay up!
Don’t worry, though, plebes, there’s a sliding scale:
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is locked in a tight race with Democratic President Barack Obama, will be holding his election night gathering at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, where access costs anywhere from $75 for a chair in the ballroom to $1,020 for permission to use the media filing center. Broadcast news organizations will be paying up to $6,500 for workspace.
Ha ha, we certainly hope that skinny, impoverished reporters are splitting a chair and sitting in each other’s laps. And what is the socialist Obama camp doing?
Obama’s campaign party will be held at McCormick Place, in Chicago, and although his campaign is charging for premiums, credentialed reporters are granted access, which includes a workstation, electrical power and a wireless Internet connection, at no cost.
Good lord, free electricity and wireless! No wonder they’re going to refuse to write about how ACORN is stealing the election! We certainly hope that enough journalists have paid for Romneydome access so that we can get lots of good camera angles on his bitter, bitter tears, the first human tears he’s ever cried. [Masslive]
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I wanna go to Vermin Supreme's party. That's gonna ROCK.
Hey hey hey……
Late breaking live news, Mourdock the Morlock of Indiana has performed an almost unheard of act, he managed to rape himself into unemployment with his own stupidity. Of course, being a Hoosier he and most of his constituents didn't see it coming, so to speak.
If it works for the Olympics, why not? Prepare for "Official Erictile Dysfunction Aid of the Republican Party" ads in 2016.
Bob Dole spokesman?
It's worth buying a ticket just for the resale value to wealthy irony aficionados.
" $6,500 for workspace?" $3,250.00 per word to be able to report in print: "Romney lost?" Totally worth it!
Yes. Ma'am.
Rafalca is very jittery as the smell of glue wafts into the stables.
They look like Ivy League strippers in that picture.
Brown Bombshells
Harvard Hotties
Columbia Cuties
Penn Sins
Cornell Cum Heres
Princeton Poontangs
Dartmouth Darlings
Yale Whiffinpoofs (just because)
How much for Nate Silver to get in?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA … uh. Er. Yes. Sorry.
As you were.
heehee
Has he got those nickel locks to use the shitter?
If so, here's a hint: you can squeeze under the door if you're desperate (or just plain refuse to put money in Romney's pocket).
Or just extend your dick under the door and hope for the best.
*tap tap*
Or you can just put something in Romney's shoes.
Well this being Republicans they have handicapped access (an extra wide stall for teabagger hover 'rounds…er, all of 'em Katie) and special stalls for gentleman with wide stances…unfortunately Romney and Scott Brown aren't going to be tap, tap, tapping tonight….they're BOTH LOSERS! Oh yeah…bye, bye Macaca…nice career you had there.
I imagine the shadowy darkened halls of the Romney party, smoke drifts by, Vogon poetry blares from a loudspeaker . . .
On a more serious note, assuming that Romney assumes he is going to win, does he really want the press to hate his guts?
Could they hate him any worse? Remember how they loved WALNUTS?
Me either.
Like Nixon, he'll consider it confirmation
This is a clear sign he knows he's fucked and is trying to squeeze every bit of money that he can out of these people…ya know, old habits and what-not.
I hope there's enough room in Romneydome that Baron Harkonnen won't be bumping into things.
Your just know that Bain Capital funded the Intergalactic Heart Plug Company.
Stress: watching an election knowing that your job could (once again) be on the line with a gooper in office.
Luckily I'm a drinkin' man……….cheers??
I need hope.
…and it's a dry party! I'm amazed any journalists at all will be there.
I want the hip flask concession in the hall outside.
Assume hookers
credentialed reporters are granted access, which includes a workstation, electrical power and a wireless Internet connection, at no cost.
Soshulist Laimstreem Meedea!
I always DID like Howard Dean:
"Given the vote and the leading in the polls in Ohio, the only way he can lose is if people are prevented from casting their ballots. Either by voting machines that aren't functioning right or other forms of harassment."
Howard Dean must have somehow wiretapped the RNC's meeting this morning….how could he divine such a clever and not at all…..and IT'S OVER! IT'S FUCKING OVER! FUCK YOU, ROMNEY! FUCK….YOU!
Good to know. What a dickwaffle.
Classic Romney Pyramid scheme:
Recruit ten other journos and you get a free chicken dinner!
Recruit 100 other journos and get a free swag bag of tin badges from Romneys 2002 olympics.
Recruit 1,000 other journos and get to watch the concession speech from your own Corporate Crying Box
Plus for 1000 you get to be a Romney Platinum Victory Ranger, complete with t-shirt, USB drive of press releases and swag worth twelve dollars. Wow!
He'll never convince 47% of those reporters to pay up.
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
You sure about that Josh? Willard begging forgiveness and giving his concession in freakin' bluer than blue Beantown? Earlier reports had Sir Mittens serving pâté de foie gras at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman.
Things I'd do if I thought it'd help Bammerz:
Motorboat Chris Christie.
Be alone in a closet for 20 minutes with O'Reilly and a falafel.
Perform 2 minutes of cunnilingus on Lindsey Graham.
Suck Ann Coulter's Adam's apple.
Try to push Romney's eyebrows up and away from his eyes.
Free electricity and wireless is soshalist.
if romney had kept everyone liquored up he'd have had an easier path to the presidency.
He's out of touch with ordinary, hard-drinking Americans.
Welcome to the hypothetical Romney administration — you pay, he parties.
His idea of a party is chocolate in his milk and a vicious game of Monopoly.
kinky
Not so much. They'll all have clothes on. Tacky clothes.
Pink and yellow plaid pants. With green polka-dot polos.
Romney must know he's toast. Outrageous to charge the press on shit like this. Really.
I can't take it any more.
I mean Mitt is just trying to garner all the consumer surplus he can with the price discrimination.
Wolf Blitzer nearly had an aneurism announcing that Texas "and all it's electoral votes" go to Mitt Romney. I think I hate Wolf Blitzer more than Romney. Romney has a reason to be an asshole, and Wolf doesn't.
He has a reason: his mother named him Wolf.
See also: Rush, Newt, Spiro . . .
If you need a distraction here's a guy riffing on a German zero-budget movie titled Violent Shit 4. It seems appropriate, somehow.
I have a theory: all the networks knew how Ohio and Florida turned out (they went for Obama), about 2 hours ago, on the basis of what 5 people said in exit polls. They just want me to keep watching so I ship moregravel on the Norfolk Southern RR, or something.
I did not realize that American Psycho smirking Miffed was hatched in a Mitt litter of identical septuplets.
Mitt litter!
Awesome.
His five sons are also kind of a "Mitt litter".
But there will never be a celebratory glass of champagne at any price. Will There?
Is he charging because Adelson & the Kochs hope to recoup some of their outlay?
$75 for a chair in the ballroom to $1,020 for permission to use the media filing center. Broadcast news organizations will be paying up to $6,500 for workspace.
There’s a way this could be more pathetic but it’s not coming immediately to mind.
joe donnelly (IN) up by 6% over medieval mourdock.
Will he be taking questions?
HAHAAHahahAHaHaahaAhAAHA
aargh shit freaking out
(Pats your back absently) Chin up, old man. We must see this through to the bitter fucking end.
The pool reporters should have thought of this themselves. If they had pooled their dough and slipped Mittens a Franklin now and again, he might have answered some questions,.
Where's the frickin' liveblog Part 2?! I smell technical fail.
This is it! Go!
I just wrote an extra-special little wish on a piece of paper (beyond my big and obvious wish that everyone knows about) that I sealed in an envelope and gave to my mother. I told her she could open it after the results are in. I'll tell you if it comes true.
Oh god I need matchsticks to prop my eyelids open because I CAN'T GO TO SLEEP without knowing!
My special wish was that Ann Rmoney would cry on national TV.But by the time they got out there, she looked all cried out.But I got enough other stuff I wanted, so I won't be greedy.
The Romney campaign should be forced to provide contraception to reporters.
I hate Chuck Todd. Who's with me?
Yes this is craven groveling for upfists..
I hate most of them. Fucking sellouts and shills for the most part.
Is this the place where I say how much I hate that shitstain douchebag Mittens Romney?
are we surprised? This is just what he'll do to the 99% of us who aren't Kochs – and, by the way, NEVER blame an animal for the company it is forced to keep -Rafalca probably has never has whatshername sit on his back. She just "owns" him – like mittens wants to own us
Well folks..off to bed i go. Damn, but I hate feeling like this. Scotch is barely taking the edge off…
-voting for Barry hoping against hope
–it doesn't matter because fascism always wins in the short term and we may be on the verge of the age of Neo-Fascism. Barry is taking the bandage off slowly…Mittens is ripping the fucker right off. Either way the suppurating sore of our future lies beneath. It is selfish for me to want to get to our hell future more slowly?
-Maine gay marriage rights are getting crushed. Fuck.
-I'm drinking and sad. There's melatonin in my future.
I'm going full monty negative right now because I want to wake up, a. happy, b. not surprised.
You know…when it comes right down to it, I'm one negative motherfucker.
No. You can't go to sleep in that state. I am giving you a giant stoned and drunken hug and asking you to leave all that shite behind before you close your eyes tonight. Sleep the sleep of the just and deserving. You did what you needed to do. You cannot control anything else.
What can I say…I love you guys. Each and every one. Good news: I've got a nice buzz and a Terry Pratchett book to read. I'll be ok.—
I can only speak for me with certainty, but I'll bet you $10K of Romney's money that Teh Wonketz loves you too. Sleep good, fella.
night-night!
Announcement! New Livebloog is UP, people!
I'm drinking beer eating ice cream and watching The Bob Newhart Show. I'm waiting for yelling outside my window and the trash can fires. And hitting refresh*kiss* on dear wonkette.
Hahaha, Barry takes PA. On Fox News: Doom-da-doom-doom!
HA! So it IS true! YES!!!
And Republicans wonder why the media hate them.
Why should the media folks be any different than the rest of the world?
Are they insisting on Cayman Islands dollars, too?
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BrandtLi'l Russert can't watch, though, or he has to pay …"Gee wonder why this giant douchebag is rich. Probably charges his maid a parking fee at the Rancho Rmoney.
Does he get to write off the losses on the expected income now that the party's over?
The Koch Brothers can afford it; after all, a good part of the Media works for them.
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