As hundreds of thousands of proud Americans embraced CHANGE, Fox News' gamely effort to look like sportsman rising to the occasion of The New America was little more than subtle spin and dissappointment and shock, each hoping to get off air as soon as possible to phone their stock brokers and sell of their stock in Big Oil and in Jerry Fallwell.
Among the highlights in Brit Hume's narration--
1) JOE BIDEN ENTERS: Hume ponders Joe Biden's loquaciousness in oration with a deadpan suggestion that they might just go home and show back up tomorrow just in time for Biden to finish and them to comment (spin).
2) BARACK OBAMA WAVING TO CROWDS OF HAPPY PEOPLE:
--Hume acknowledge that Obama's campaign was skilled in raising money and spending it well.
--Hume asks (rhetorically?), What is there on the Obama list of proposals? Where is there a new, big idea?
3) CAMERA PANNS OVER THE MASSES, AN INERSECTION OF URBAN AND MIDDLE AMERICA: In the midst of the celebration of blacks, whites, browns, and mixes, of the young, and the old, Brit Hume's voice rises like the voice of God, his words but words said in a tone reducing the bigness of this moment to a head scratch, as if to say: "Is this really what my world has come to."
BACK IN THE STUDIO--
The internal Republican blame game begins as Brit Hume points the finger at the man who against all odds might still have a fighting chance if the popular vote mattered. In disgust, "John McCain does what he always does, he fought for something he believes in." What came after was nonsensical and lacked even faulty Republican logic. I'm sure that logic will be alive in well come tomorrow morning.
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