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Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV?
kakapo writes "A couple of years ago, we dumped our cable TV, and don't have much luck getting old-fashioned broadcast where we live. That's fine — we can download or netflix almost anything we want to see, and it is great not to pay the Comcast tax every month. Problem is, now I want to watch the election live, complete with talking heads, pundits, glitzy graphics and all the rest, rather than reading about it on a website. So, is there any way to download network TV / CNN / MSNBC in real time — I don't mind paying. And yes, we could visit friends, but ideally our kids would watch the first part and then go to bed — and a sitter would be expensive if we have to wait until late for the result."
I know this is offtopic, but I'll post non-anon to take my punishment.
I am wondering the same thing about tonight's World Series game on Fox. Anyone answer that question?
This post climbed Mt. Washington.
The fact that there is more than one "3rd party" is in and of itself is bad.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
If you are talking about her interview where the interviewer didn't know what the Bush Doctrine is and she asked him which of the four versions he was asking about, then you ought to be more unhappy that the press took such a cheap shot and impressed that she knows.
The person who was responsible for coining the term "Bush Doctrine" wrote following that interview that there were four different "doctrines". Distinctly different. He ought to know. And he supported Palin for knowing enough to ask. Smarter than Obama, who claimed he was a better candidate for the democrats because he had a better shot at defeating Bush, who can't run.
We had a retard in the oval office for 8 years
Yes, and fortunately Clinton couldn't run for another 4. Can we stop this ridiculous name calling and vitriol? You don't agree with the man, but that doesn't excuse this.
and it has been an unmitigated disaster.
The term you are looking for is "hyperbole". It's also called "gross exaggeration."
Lord help us if the American voters once again show disdain for educated people as 'elitists.'
Yes, it's not as if Obama wasn't putting himself up as the next saviour or anything. "We are the one who we have been waiting for".
If you want to talk policies, fine. Let's talk about socialism and income redistribution and universal health care and how they are all VERY OLD ideas that have been tried and failed every time. They aren't new ideas. Let's talk about how unfair it is for rich people to get tax cuts, when the fact is that rich people pay the most in taxes and the poor people mostly already pay nothing at all. Let's talk about tax cuts that force jobs offshore, when the fact is that tax INCREASES are what increases costs and drives jobs offshore. Let's talk about exactly how you cut the taxes of someone who already pays nothing -- let's call it welfare, which is the real name for it.
If you want to talk experience, ok, let's talk about a presidential candidate who has to resort to comparing his experience to the opposing VICE presidential candidate in order to look like he has any at all, and he still loses. He can't compare his experience to the opposing presidential candidate. A presidential candidate who has never had an executive position and had to hire and fire and make a budget. A presidential candidate who thinks that visiting his grandmother in Africa is "foreign policy experience".
If you want to talk about who will lead the US, ok, let's talk about a presidential candidate who sucks up to and thinks that support from the Germans and the French is a good thing, compared to a candidate that will put the US first.
But how about we all stop this insulting name calling and deal with the issues and not invective?
That woman puts the fear of God in me,
And democrats have the audacity to claim that Republicans are the party of hate and fear? Yes, people who lack backbone and moral fiber are often scared of those who have convictions and stick to them even when things aren't going their way.