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Part 2

What a historical night, relive it here!

November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Stephen's Distractions


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - OH, NY, PA, NJ, SC Results


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - NH, KY and CT Results


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Obama Headquarters


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Steve Forbes


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - IL, AL, and LA Results


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - The Bradley Effect


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - McCain Headquarters


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Al Qaeda Headquarters


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Charles Ogletree


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Larry and Wyatt Take Over


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Virginia Results


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Hawaii Rant


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Barack Obama Wins


November 4, 2008: Indecision 2008: America's Choice - Post-Election Fears


Stewart, Colbert parody election in real-time
By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Culminating their satirical coverage of the campaign, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a live one-hour comedy special - though Stewart had his Cronkite moment, too.

Stewart became the first comedian to announce presidential election results on live national television.

Sensing the end was imminent, the broadcast delayed its signoff for a moment, as offstage producers gave the closing cue while hovering over TV monitors showing. When they said the election had been called, the comedians effectively became newsmen.

Interrupting a Colbert writhing in mock disappointment at John McCain's loss, a clearly moved Stewart announced: "I would just like to say, if I may ... that at 11 o'clock at night, Eastern Standard Time, the president of the United States is Barack Obama."

It was a straight line on a broadcast full of parody.

Sitting at "The Daily Show" desk - expanded for the two anchors - Stewart and Colbert mocked over-the-top election coverage with fake reports from campaign headquarters and real updates on polling numbers.

"We don't normally do this live. We are a fake news show," Stewart told the crowd beforehand, putting emphasis on "fake."

But "The Daily Show" for years now has been regarded as a legitimate news source. Stewart's take on the news has been influential enough to draw visits from both McCain and Obama. "The Colbert Report" host infused himself into the race by briefly - and comically - running in the South Carolina primary.

The two comedians - Stewart himself, Colbert in his right-wing pundit persona - reacted to the night's news like a Democrat and Republican, respectively. Most of the gags went to Colbert.

Repeatedly, Stewart called the night a historic one, only to have Colbert each time correct that it was "AN historic" evening.

A desperate Colbert attempted distraction with a cockatoo, scoffed at blue states like Vermont and pleaded that McCain's win in South Carolina was "this year's bonus state" - tripling its electoral tally.

"Daily Show" correspondents pitched in, too, including a video interviewing voters prodding for evidence of the so-called Bradley Effect.

But comedy eventually subsided to the magnitude of the election results. After the broadcast - held in front of a raucous and partisan crowd - the cast exchanged hugs and Colbert and Stewart both went to the audience to embrace their wives.

In a brief interview after the broadcast backstage, Colbert was still rattled.

"I've never had this feeling before, which is: Things went well on Election Night," said Colbert, whose political views are not his character's. "I'm a little stunned. I don't know what to do with my happiness. I'm still afraid someone's going to take it away."

In the nearly two-year long presidential campaign, comedy was the unqualified winner, mirroring the candidates and the media every step of the way to great popularity. Like NBC's "Saturday Night Live," "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" each enjoyed record ratings and increased relevance.

The exit of the Bush administration, some have argued, will dwindle comedic fodder. But Tuesday night's show ended with Stewart rallying his correspondents and Colbert that their jobs would continue.

"There was a world out there before this election and there's still a world out there," Stewart said.

Afterward, Colbert, too, said the show would go on.

"It's like saying nighttime news will go out of business tomorrow," said a grinning Colbert. "Do you think that's gonna happen?"

Here's your history.

Hitchens spoke during the BBC election coverage, he calls this "the Zeitgeist Election"

Currently you can watch MSNBC Live, right here, huzzah


Good Luck America, do the right thing. The Mahalo team will be covering the election, here is the electoral map and below are the results state-by-state.

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The Young Turks

I haven't watched television in months, I used to have my computer connected to Cable TV but I disconnected it because it kept knocking my internet off. I heard Colbert and Stewart were getting together for a live election night special and south park was going to have a special election show to. So for the first time in a long time I dove behind the desk and hooked up the cable again. Static. Fuck!



Couple weeks ago the Cable company called, they asked "Would you like free cable for a month" - I said "sure" - he starts clacking away at his keyboard, "oh..sir looks like cable is already hooked up, thats a mistake". He was right, the cable I was watching before was free, the last people forgot to shut it off, this apartment has had free cable for two years, I just never used it. At that moment I remembered the free cable and told the guy "nevermind, cya" I remembered the TDS special and. static. that my friends is instant karma. I should have taken the free cable, just for this evening, as it will be the most memorable evening ever, I may have to settle for the streaming CNN coverage, unless somebody knows where I can find the TDS special streaming. I hate TV, but I love some of the programming.

ok, enough about me, here is the the November 3rd episode. Enjoy!


November 3, 2008: Indecision 2008 - Last Day
Dick Cheney endorses John McCain and Sarah Palin, so does Arnold


November 3, 2008: I Now Denounce You Chuck & Larry
Wil Wheaton says vote No on Prop 8.
Jon Stewart destroys the idea of "traditional marriage"


November 3, 2008: Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Question, Obama is elected tomorrow, says Goodwin. (I'm knocking on wood)


Goodwin's been on the show several times before.

November 3, 2008: Daily/Colbert - Get Out and Vote


November 3, 2008: Moment of Zen - Obama's Skinny Legs

Barack Obama bought airtime on a bunch of US Networks to air a 30 minute advertisement. Here it is below, and Mahalo has a full archive of related news and articles.

Some might think this is bizarre but apparently "Candidate Documentaries" are common before elections. This one was shot by Davis Guggenheim, the guy who brought us Deadwood.

Less then two weeks before the election McCain sits down on Meet with Press with Tom Brokaw, Here is the Full Interview



and here is a small snippet of John McCain blumbering over Polls.

Reason number 74 out of 101. Palin has been preaching recently that Small town America is the best America...well... I've been to small towns, and I like 'em too, they have character. However after watching this video (and others), Wasilla Alaska is probably the exact opposite of how a "Small Town" should look, its a dive, the meth capitol of Alaska. Lets check out the "character" (or lack there-of) of Sarah Palin's small town, Wasilla Alaska.



Lots of crazy coverage from this crazy town is starting to surface thanks to Palin, the Wasilla Mahalo Archive is bulking up because of it, hopefully someday we'll have an in depth page like this for every small town.

1. Bought her 7-year-old daughter a $790 Louis Vuitton Handbag
2. Participated in a bizarre looking ceremony to be saved from witchcraft
3. Supports shooting wolves from helicopters
4. Can't name more than one Supreme Court case
5. Believes that dinosaurs and humans co-existed
6. Abused governmental power
7. Talks with a fake accent
8. Thinks the VP "runs" the Senate
9. Bridge to nowhere


10. How about the Road to nowhere, built and paved for the Bridge to nowhere


11. Tried to ban books
12. Belongs to a church that believes they can convert gays.
13. Believes that being gay is a "choice"
14. Mother of a pregnant high schooler
15. Thinks an valid question from an American voter is "Gotcha Journalism"
16. Thinks creationism should be taught in schools
17. Instead of proving superiority over political rivals with specific policies and examples, she brands them as terrorists
18. Female residents of her home state protested against her
19. Calls her husband "the first dude"
20. Admits she smoked marijuana, but does not want it decriminalized
21. Demonstrates confusion over the location of foreign nations
22. Her make-up artist is the highest paid staffer in the McCain campaign
23. Wore a "Vote Democrat" scarf to a republican rally
24. Is difficult to work with according to SNL staff
25. Believes that the government has a right to force girls who have become pregnant after being raped to carry and deliver their babies
26. Husband was a member of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party
27. Believes abortion clinic bombers are not terrorists
28. Thinks that the federal government should ban gay marriage
29. Started College in 1982 at Hawaii Pacific College, then went to North Idaho Community College, University of Idaha Matanuska Community College and finally back to Idaho to finish her degree...5 crappy Schools in 6 years, that cant be good.
30. Doesn't understand her party's foreign policy
31. Had tanning bed installed in the governors mansion
32. Vetoed funding for programs that assisted unwed teenage mothers
33. Doesn't pronounce the G's at the end of her words
34. Easily "annoyed" by journalists who ask questions rather than encourage her to trash talk her opponents
35. Wants to drill for oil in ANWR
36. Built a sports complex on land that the city didn't own
37. Not a fan of the free press
38. Has no idea how to run the economy as great as the USA's
39. Believed that God's will brought a pipeline to Alaska
40. Putin rears his head in Alaska's air space.
    
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41. Is against protecting polar bears
42. While the McCain campaign tries to fight earmarks, she set a record
43. She flew from Texas to Alaska after he water broke and is campaigning for VP as 44 year old woman with a special needs baby that is less then a year old
44. She allegedly reads "all" major publications, yet can't name any of them
45. Not only is she against solar and other alternative energies, she's used veto power to ensure others don't get funds to research it
46. Didn't know what the VP did just months before being nominated
47. After rehearsing a rap with SNL staff, she opted to let the pregnant Amy Poehler perform it live
48. Billed taxpayers for NCAA games and working from home
49. Supported charging rape victims for rape kits
50. Lets her teenage daughter dress like a handcuff-toting tramp for Halloween
51. Her most passionate supporters appear to be incredibly racist and ill informed
52. Thinks that the Iraq War is part of "God's plan"
53. Can't even keep her own views on the issues straight
54. She scares Matt Damon
55. John McCain needs to hold her hand during high profile interviews
56. Unable to name any regulation legislation supported by McCain. you betcha!


57. Endorsed Dianne Keller as the next mayor of Wasilla




58. When faced with the important decision of what to name her children, she chose...Willow, Track, Trig, Piper and Bristol
59. Believes an airline stop over constitutes foreign policy experience


60. Lied about speaking with a British Ambassador to boost her foreign experience.
61. Her "Christian Heritage Week" is weak.
62. Tina Fey doesn't want to continue playing Sarah Palin.
63. President Bush Endorsed Palin, and has already voted McCain.
64. Future Son in law is a Fucking Redneck
65. She cursed the St. Louis Blues
66. Gives a bad name to Hockey Moms
67. She was endorsed and supported by indicted coot senator Ted Stevens
68. Failed to condemn her radical supporters
69. Used a Madelaine Albright quote completely out of context
70. Trying desperately to divide the nation by telling her supporters that Barack is connected with "Terrorists" and that she is fearful for the country.
    
71. Despite claiming to be a "fiscal conservative" and openly mocking Obama's tax program, she increased government expenditures by 33% and taxes by 38% while in the Wasilla mayor's office
72. Wasilla is a dive, this doesn't look like any small town I have ever seen.
73. With a Finger on the button, is her priority the American people or her God? She could be having visions of Jesus's return while in office

    Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. "She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board," said Munger, a music composer and teacher. "I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, 'Sarah, how can you believe in creationism -- your father's a science teacher.' And she said, 'We don't have to agree on everything.'

74. Used a Yahoo email for official party correspondence.
75. 50Gs to Remodel her office in Alaska.
76. She seems to be pissing off an awful lot of staffers
77. Hypocrite when it comes to "sharing the wealth"
78. One heartbeat
79. In January 2004 she quit her job as the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Chairwoman out frustration.
80. July 3 2009 quit her job as the Governor of Alaska.
81. On the 4th of July Palin Twittered.
82. Before whining about unfair media coverage, Sarah Palin bashed Hillary Clinton for whining about unfair media coverage.
83. After the election she appeared in a documentary where she lashed out on "the media"
84. Called Ashley Judd's environmentalist group an "extreme fringe group"
85. Her husband and top aides were all held in contempt of court when they failed to testify.
86. After having becoming a teen mother, Bristol Palin speaks out against teen sex, abstinence not education.
87. Palin was forced to reimburse Alaskans after using state funds to pay for family trips.
88. As Gov. Rejected Millions of federal funds meant of Education and Special needs children, upsetting Alaskans.
89. NRA says Palin is one of the most pro-gun advocates in the history of the USA.
90. Got pranked by a Montreal Radio Station, for over 6 minutes she thought she was speaking to French President Nicolas Sarkosy.
91. Palin was so hated by McCain staffers that they told the press she didn't know Africa was a continent and that she was unaware what countries were in NAFTA. Although no staffer ever admitted, these guys decided to snatch up the credit.
    
92. Sarah Palin pardones a Turkey while another gets slaughtered.
93. After quiting as Gov. Sarah Palin sent blogger a legal notice to the author of blogspot blog who had mentioned rumours about Sarah Palin on her blog.
94. During her campaign for VP, she spent $290,000 on fashion, including $42,000 on a hair stylist and $68,000 for a makeup artist.
95. After Trig was born she emailed everybody and signed her email as if it were written by god.

    More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of Palin’s extravagant self-regard. Several told me, independently of one another, that they had consulted the definition of “narcissistic personality disorder” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders—“a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy”—and thought it fit her perfectly. When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

96. After David Letterman delivered a bad joke, the Palin supporters protested.
97. Four months into Obama's presidency she went onto Fox News to say "I Told You So, USA is becoming socialist"
98. Warned Alaskan's of New World Order and a Government that wants to "Control People"
99. Palin: A terrorist is Bill Ayers who would bomb the Capitol. Brian Williams: What about somebody who bombs an abortion clinic? Palin: mumble
100. Hand picked by Rush Limbaugh as the Republican Figurehead. Calls her the most "articulate voice" of the Republican Party.
     
     
     
     
     

Election is getting awfully close, Bill Maher gives his take on the latest week in politics. Here is the playlist

Tina Fey may have just ended Sarah Palin's post debate "thunder." Few comedic performance change history, perhaps this SNL Sketch will be one of them?

+The Guy playing Biden is Jason Sudeikis and he deserves equal credit for the hilarity of this clip, he does a timeless job, this clip is a solid from top to bottom.



This is of course Fey's third performance as Sarah Palin, the collection is archived here.

Excellent episode from Emmy bragging to a Moment of Zen that features Bush being him silly self, boy won't we all miss this guy?

Part 1: Another Emmy Award


Part 2: Debt to America


John Oliver discusses the Bush Legacy, it's a page that has already been started on Mahalo but it needs plenty more links before it graduates into the Archive. Think of your favourite Bush moment, any Bush moment and submit it here for that it will be forever cemented and remembered for the internetters of the future.

Part 3: Bush's Legacy


Part 4: The Bill Clinton Interview - Indecision2008 Blog

Part 5: The Moment of Zen