Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Election 2008 Retrospective: A Children’s Treasury of Candidate Heads Photoshopped onto Things

Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, Election 2008, hillary clinton, Indiana, Iowa, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, retrospective, South Carolina, speed racer, Super Tuesday

Results are impending and I need to get out of work so I can get home in time to hear sweet nothings from Chris Matthews (and hopefully squeeze in some phone banking). However, let’s take a quick look back over the past year to highlight some of our coverage of this historic election.

The Beginning

Our first morning news ever, on December 13, 2007, mentioned Barack Obama. Also hilarious photos of MLB stars looking worried. I like to imagine them saying it in a Scooby Doo voice. (For those who are curious, our first post ever was about Speed Racer! What’s up with that?)  January 14, 2007 was the first time we every consolidated into an “Election 2008″ tag. That post kinda sucked though.  Surprise surprise.

The long, strange trip continues after the jump.

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Monday, June 16, 2008

Your Morning News 6.16.08

Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, celtics, Electricity, Flooding, Iowa, Tiger Woods, Tim Russert

The biggest story of the weekend was the death of Tim Russert, veteran Washington political reporter and moderator of Meet The Press. Today the last passionate obits are trickling out and people are beginning to speculate on who the next host of Meet the Press might be.

The Midwest continues to be slammed by storms and massive flooding. The New York Times leads with the problems these storms are posing farmers and the threat to crops in the region. Yes, Iowa City is evacuated and the Times covers crops.

Electricity prices are set to increase by up to 30% over the next few months, a move that will undoubtedly cause much hardship to already-squeezed lower and middle income families. Cue inappropriate pun by a major media outlet: “Here’s a shocker: Electricity bills are heading up. Way up.” Thanks USA Today!

Here is your Barack Obama casual-scene porn of the day. Enjoy!

Yesterday was a great day for sports as Tiger Woods made a huge comeback to force a Monday playoff at the US Open and the Celtics made a huge comeback but couldn’t close against the Lakers, bringing the finals to 3-2.

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