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"super barry o. world"
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:19 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 6:19 AM on November 13, 2008
I got choked up watching Blitzer announce it live, and it still happens every time I watch it again. And I'm Canadian.
posted by davebush at 6:22 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by davebush at 6:22 AM on November 13, 2008
yeah, I'm glad Obama won...
but, in all honesty, this might better be called "Video blog of drunk Obama supporters reactions....."
posted by HuronBob at 6:24 AM on November 13, 2008
but, in all honesty, this might better be called "Video blog of drunk Obama supporters reactions....."
posted by HuronBob at 6:24 AM on November 13, 2008
I wonder: were there any rallies/parties in preparation for a McCain win? If so, where are those videos? Schadenfreude's so bad, but damn, does it feel good.
posted by seldom seen cid at 6:27 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by seldom seen cid at 6:27 AM on November 13, 2008
I didn't think I could still be moved to tears so easily but this does bring it all back again. Thank you.
posted by Dragonness at 6:29 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by Dragonness at 6:29 AM on November 13, 2008
And, of course, the insane reaction.
posted by jaduncan at 6:45 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by jaduncan at 6:45 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
Nice! I've still got residual joy from that night and those clips sparked it up. Good post, aftermarketradio.
posted by hojoki at 6:52 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by hojoki at 6:52 AM on November 13, 2008
Yup. This is like popping that extra half e before the first one has worn off. Thanks for the serotonin!
posted by gman at 6:55 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by gman at 6:55 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
I thoroughly enjoyed watching it on FOX. Apart from Brit Hume's growing disgust as the night went on, the sweet, sweet schaudenfreude was just delicious. The only thing that made it better was watching John Bolton on BBC, barking left and right at anyone who dared say the Republicans failed. It gave me great pleasure to see that mean, spiteful, petty little man backed into a corner, faced with an approaching wall of defeat.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 6:59 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 6:59 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
I wonder: were there any rallies/parties in preparation for a McCain win?
There was a party of sorts in Arizona at the site of what ended up being McCain's concession speech, which they kept cutting to on the cable news channels. They had musical entertainment in the form of Hank Williams Jr., but the crowd didn't exactly seem enthusiastic. When the results started to show things swing in Obama's favor, apparently they temporarily stopped reporting the election results at the rally in an attempt to not furthur dampen the mood.
posted by burnmp3s at 7:14 AM on November 13, 2008
There was a party of sorts in Arizona at the site of what ended up being McCain's concession speech, which they kept cutting to on the cable news channels. They had musical entertainment in the form of Hank Williams Jr., but the crowd didn't exactly seem enthusiastic. When the results started to show things swing in Obama's favor, apparently they temporarily stopped reporting the election results at the rally in an attempt to not furthur dampen the mood.
posted by burnmp3s at 7:14 AM on November 13, 2008
I was hosting a small group of friends watching the results, but I went out to walk the dog just before the crucial moment. Some guy on the street was on his cell phone. Turned to me and said, "Did you hear Obama won?"
High-fived a perfect stranger on the street that night, and we both teared up right then. I don't think either of us will ever forget that moment.
posted by trip and a half at 7:26 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
High-fived a perfect stranger on the street that night, and we both teared up right then. I don't think either of us will ever forget that moment.
posted by trip and a half at 7:26 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
Related: Flickr set of people seeing goatse for the first time (SFW).
posted by dammitjim at 7:30 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by dammitjim at 7:30 AM on November 13, 2008
Blau and Love in the Atlantic -- "Rednecks for Obama." Fascinating interrogation of the bullshit about Appalachia that seems to be wearing thin.
A lot of folks in Appalachia celebrating too, it turns out.
posted by fourcheesemac at 7:30 AM on November 13, 2008
A lot of folks in Appalachia celebrating too, it turns out.
posted by fourcheesemac at 7:30 AM on November 13, 2008
"super barry o. world"
You are aware that this actually exists, right?
posted by The Whelk at 7:38 AM on November 13, 2008
You are aware that this actually exists, right?
posted by The Whelk at 7:38 AM on November 13, 2008
For 'world' read America and France.
Where's the beef?
posted by asok at 7:40 AM on November 13, 2008
Where's the beef?
posted by asok at 7:40 AM on November 13, 2008
I found it interesting that they counted-down in English in Paris and Buenos Aires. Then again, it was probably only ex-pats.
posted by the cydonian at 7:49 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by the cydonian at 7:49 AM on November 13, 2008
For asok:
Collection of videos of the "Obama wins" moment celebrations from France, England, Japan, Kenya, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, and Australia. I'm sure a youtube search will turn up many more.
Where's the beef?
Would you like fries with that?
posted by tzikeh at 7:57 AM on November 13, 2008
Collection of videos of the "Obama wins" moment celebrations from France, England, Japan, Kenya, Indonesia, Germany, Italy, and Australia. I'm sure a youtube search will turn up many more.
Where's the beef?
Would you like fries with that?
posted by tzikeh at 7:57 AM on November 13, 2008
Do you know how the 2008 U.S. presidential election was just like the one in 2000?
They both made liberals cry.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 8:02 AM on November 13, 2008 [5 favorites]
They both made liberals cry.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 8:02 AM on November 13, 2008 [5 favorites]
jaduncan: "And, of course, the insane reaction."
That reaction mentions kool-aid seven times. I think it's astroturfing.
posted by Plutor at 8:02 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
That reaction mentions kool-aid seven times. I think it's astroturfing.
posted by Plutor at 8:02 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
I went to an election party in Osaka, Japan and when I got home I found a YouTube video of the countdown with me in it.
So I guess if someone asks me 60 years from now "where were you on the day Obama was elected?" I can say "Here's the proof"...
posted by shii at 8:10 AM on November 13, 2008
So I guess if someone asks me 60 years from now "where were you on the day Obama was elected?" I can say "Here's the proof"...
posted by shii at 8:10 AM on November 13, 2008
Ah god jaduncan, that's impossible to read with a straight face...
From the comments:
"my husband wanted to sell some stocks yesterday but I told him that Market will be stable because Mccain will win. now we will expect the market will go up and down again for the next a few months because the uncertaintity of BHO."
posted by voltairemodern at 8:18 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
From the comments:
"my husband wanted to sell some stocks yesterday but I told him that Market will be stable because Mccain will win. now we will expect the market will go up and down again for the next a few months because the uncertaintity of BHO."
posted by voltairemodern at 8:18 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
My favorite reaction video by far is from the Democratic Party celebration at the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Phoenix, right on McCain's turf. It starts with the calling of Virginia for Obama on CNN, followed by an impromptu dance-and-clap to "Signed, Sealed, Delivered", then the countdown, then the OMG-FUCK-YES freak-out, and finally the mass shout-out of "YES WE DID."
Plus it gave me the basis for this awesome picture.
posted by Rhaomi at 8:21 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
Plus it gave me the basis for this awesome picture.
posted by Rhaomi at 8:21 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
jaduncan, Plutor: Larry Johnson makes hillaryis44 look measured in comparison. You know who else attracted big crowds and was endorsed by businessmen?
posted by lukemeister at 8:26 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by lukemeister at 8:26 AM on November 13, 2008
Watch a split screen of CNN, FOX, MSNBC and ABC all call the election at 11:00pm EDT.
posted by thewittyname at 8:47 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by thewittyname at 8:47 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
High-fived a perfect stranger on the street that night, and we both teared up right then.
Well carving B's into the face is painful.
posted by rough ashlar at 8:53 AM on November 13, 2008
Well carving B's into the face is painful.
posted by rough ashlar at 8:53 AM on November 13, 2008
Holy crap! Johnson manages to Godwin three times in the opening paragraph alone. That takes some rare skill. Not everyone can pull that off without merely jamming the word "Hitler" between every other word, or drawing a funny moustache over your target's face. That's some fine Godwining there.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:53 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:53 AM on November 13, 2008
Marisa,
I hope there's a category in the Webby Awards for Godwining.
posted by lukemeister at 9:01 AM on November 13, 2008
I hope there's a category in the Webby Awards for Godwining.
posted by lukemeister at 9:01 AM on November 13, 2008
You who else godwinned really well?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:02 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:02 AM on November 13, 2008
Mike Godwin?
posted by the other side at 9:28 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by the other side at 9:28 AM on November 13, 2008
Not actually Larry Johnson who posted that, though it is his blog. It's been amusing watching the PUMA folks slide into irrelevance.
posted by empath at 9:44 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by empath at 9:44 AM on November 13, 2008
I am so happy. And I continue to be!
posted by humannaire at 9:44 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by humannaire at 9:44 AM on November 13, 2008
empath,
It never occurred to me that 'Old Grumpy Guy' wasn't Larry Johnson.
posted by lukemeister at 10:02 AM on November 13, 2008
It never occurred to me that 'Old Grumpy Guy' wasn't Larry Johnson.
posted by lukemeister at 10:02 AM on November 13, 2008
Watch a split screen of CNN, FOX, MSNBC and ABC all call the election at 11:00pm EDT.
Flagged as a quadruple post.
Plus, it made me feel like Ozymandias from Watchmen
That was nice to watch. Due to circumstances I had no internet or cable access and had to watch a local broadcast on a crappy portable b&w that will be obsolete come February. Most of the night they ran the network feed with local updates beginning after the polls closed here. At 10:00 CST note that daylight time is summer time they started a "normal" newscast -- focusing solely on local races. It was 10:08 before they went back to the network! My nephew called my cell at 10:02 or thereabouts, but it was frustrating being in the dark like that.
posted by dhartung at 10:13 AM on November 13, 2008
Flagged as a quadruple post.
Plus, it made me feel like Ozymandias from Watchmen
That was nice to watch. Due to circumstances I had no internet or cable access and had to watch a local broadcast on a crappy portable b&w that will be obsolete come February. Most of the night they ran the network feed with local updates beginning after the polls closed here. At 10:00 CST note that daylight time is summer time they started a "normal" newscast -- focusing solely on local races. It was 10:08 before they went back to the network! My nephew called my cell at 10:02 or thereabouts, but it was frustrating being in the dark like that.
posted by dhartung at 10:13 AM on November 13, 2008
I was in that Washington, DC room 8 years ago and I've got to say, the whole environment was different. By 3 AM with no real results, people were either bailing, drunkenly hooking up with random strangers, sleeping in corners, or simply staring into space.
posted by Pollomacho at 10:19 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by Pollomacho at 10:19 AM on November 13, 2008
In 1968, Nixon's election was called at noon. And that was a close election.
Are people today really this gullible?
posted by Zambrano at 10:20 AM on November 13, 2008
Are people today really this gullible?
posted by Zambrano at 10:20 AM on November 13, 2008
I was in the Uptown bar in San Francisco when he won; naturally people went crazy. We rode BART back home to Oakland, and made a point of switching to a Pittsburg/Baypoint train so we could get off a stop early and walk home through Downtown. The station was pretty quiet, but as we walked up the stairs to Broadway the blare of horns grew louder and louder, until we emerged on the street to the sight of hundreds of people on the street screaming and cars driving up and down honking. We high fived strangers, waved to honking cars, watched Oakland cops gently direct mobs of revelers back onto the sidewalk.
Spending the Moment with friends in a San Francisco bar was great; coming home hours later to crowds of random Oaklanders in full throated, balls out joy on the downtown streets was infinitely sweeter.
posted by oneirodynia at 10:36 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
Spending the Moment with friends in a San Francisco bar was great; coming home hours later to crowds of random Oaklanders in full throated, balls out joy on the downtown streets was infinitely sweeter.
posted by oneirodynia at 10:36 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
Larry Johnson makes hillaryis44 look measured in comparison. You know who else attracted big crowds and was endorsed by businessmen?
I hear the Whitey tape will be released any day now.
Anyhow, this seems as appropriate an occasion as any to share with you a deliciously delusional article tastefully dubbed "Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer". It opens with a surprisingly lucid caveat:
Equating anyone to Hitler by highlighting the similarities between the two is a logical fallacy. This fallacy, known as reductio ad Hitlerum is a variety of both questionable cause and association fallacy. I believe it is wrong to trivialize the holocaust and the horrors of Nazism by comparing our opponents to Hitler.
...and then goes right on to devote a hundred paragraphs and some to explicitly comparing Obama to Hitler -- a truly stellar achievement in the categories of both concern trollery and tinfoil asshattery, I'm sure.
But more importantly -- shouldn't there be a name for this? The specific type of Godwin where you start off by pointing out how wrong and stupid it is to compare someone to Hitler, and then IN A STUNNING REVERSAL do just that? I propose "Spanish Godwin".
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:22 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
I hear the Whitey tape will be released any day now.
Anyhow, this seems as appropriate an occasion as any to share with you a deliciously delusional article tastefully dubbed "Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer". It opens with a surprisingly lucid caveat:
Equating anyone to Hitler by highlighting the similarities between the two is a logical fallacy. This fallacy, known as reductio ad Hitlerum is a variety of both questionable cause and association fallacy. I believe it is wrong to trivialize the holocaust and the horrors of Nazism by comparing our opponents to Hitler.
...and then goes right on to devote a hundred paragraphs and some to explicitly comparing Obama to Hitler -- a truly stellar achievement in the categories of both concern trollery and tinfoil asshattery, I'm sure.
But more importantly -- shouldn't there be a name for this? The specific type of Godwin where you start off by pointing out how wrong and stupid it is to compare someone to Hitler, and then IN A STUNNING REVERSAL do just that? I propose "Spanish Godwin".
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:22 AM on November 13, 2008 [2 favorites]
This doesn't mean, of course, that you all are now suddenly cleared to use this -- otherwise splendid and cunning -- little rhetorical device on Metafilter, because comparing someone to Hitler is still wrong and stupid and OMG YOU ARE ALL HITLER
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:23 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:23 AM on November 13, 2008
This fallacy, known as reductio ad Hitlerum is a variety of both questionable cause and association fallacy. I believe it is wrong to trivialize the holocaust and the horrors of Nazism by comparing our opponents to Hitler.
...and then goes right on to devote a hundred paragraphs and some to explicitly comparing Obama to Hitler
... and playing right into HITLER'S HANDS.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:36 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
...and then goes right on to devote a hundred paragraphs and some to explicitly comparing Obama to Hitler
... and playing right into HITLER'S HANDS.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 11:36 AM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
I hope consumer steady-cam technology improves before the next great paradigm shift.
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:43 AM on November 13, 2008
posted by bonobothegreat at 11:43 AM on November 13, 2008
MetaHitler
posted by SPrintF at 12:19 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by SPrintF at 12:19 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
Long as we're sharing stories . . . I was in a plane, really annoyed that I had to reschedule my flight (initially planned for the following day) for the very HOURS of prime Election Night coverage. So a few days prior, I bought an eyeTV USB TV tuner, dug out an old rabbit-ear antenna, and packed a USB FM tuner as well. Then I changed my seats on both flights (there was a connection in deep-red Houston . . . mwahahaha) to window, so I could have the best shot at line-of-sight coverage of TV and/or radio stations.
I was doing the radio thing at the the time of The Moment, so I heard NPR's rather restrained, dulcet call of the election for Obama. At various times throughout the flights, I got a variety of TV stations -- many even digital and in glorious HD -- and was thus able to follow it all pretty decently, all things considered. The only hiccup was this annoying flight attendant getting too inquisitive about the wire she saw (and perhaps the portion of rabbit-ear antenna that I'm not sure she saw). I gave runaround answers enough to get her off my ass, but the guy in front of me overheard and knew what was going on. After she left, he started asking me about the latest news. Turns out he was returning to the Bay area from North Carolina, where he'd been doing campaigning for the Obama campaign.
As I was getting off the plane, the same stupid flight attendant was curious again (not accusatory -- supposedly -- but curious) and I was mildly drunk from several celebratory wines I'd ordered. I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was more or less along the lines of coming clean and admitting I'd been watching TV/listening to the radio. (Knowing more than a few things about how this stuff works, I know it's been long established by independent reviewers for decades now that none of this poses any harm to aeronautics.) We were, of course, on the ground, at the gate, deplaning, where FLIGHT CREWS' ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ends.
Eh, maybe a mildly asshole thing to do, and I'm sure one or two people are going to flame me for what I did, but you had to see this flight attendant. Her attitude wasn't exactly endearing. A McCainiac, I'm guessing. And this was a hell of a historic night anyway. In my view, certain things trump.
A few days later, at my wedding reception (oh, did I mention I was flying out to California for my wedding?), I had the DJ play a dance remix of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," talking it up and announcing it as being in celebration of the Obama win. From the crowd, there was a miniature version of the reaction you've seen on all these YouTube clips.
Yeah, these last eight days or so have really, really introduced lots of change in my life . . .
posted by CommonSense at 12:46 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
I was doing the radio thing at the the time of The Moment, so I heard NPR's rather restrained, dulcet call of the election for Obama. At various times throughout the flights, I got a variety of TV stations -- many even digital and in glorious HD -- and was thus able to follow it all pretty decently, all things considered. The only hiccup was this annoying flight attendant getting too inquisitive about the wire she saw (and perhaps the portion of rabbit-ear antenna that I'm not sure she saw). I gave runaround answers enough to get her off my ass, but the guy in front of me overheard and knew what was going on. After she left, he started asking me about the latest news. Turns out he was returning to the Bay area from North Carolina, where he'd been doing campaigning for the Obama campaign.
As I was getting off the plane, the same stupid flight attendant was curious again (not accusatory -- supposedly -- but curious) and I was mildly drunk from several celebratory wines I'd ordered. I don't remember exactly what I said, but it was more or less along the lines of coming clean and admitting I'd been watching TV/listening to the radio. (Knowing more than a few things about how this stuff works, I know it's been long established by independent reviewers for decades now that none of this poses any harm to aeronautics.) We were, of course, on the ground, at the gate, deplaning, where FLIGHT CREWS' ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ends.
Eh, maybe a mildly asshole thing to do, and I'm sure one or two people are going to flame me for what I did, but you had to see this flight attendant. Her attitude wasn't exactly endearing. A McCainiac, I'm guessing. And this was a hell of a historic night anyway. In my view, certain things trump.
A few days later, at my wedding reception (oh, did I mention I was flying out to California for my wedding?), I had the DJ play a dance remix of "Signed, Sealed, Delivered," talking it up and announcing it as being in celebration of the Obama win. From the crowd, there was a miniature version of the reaction you've seen on all these YouTube clips.
Yeah, these last eight days or so have really, really introduced lots of change in my life . . .
posted by CommonSense at 12:46 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
Are people today really this gullible?
You've lost me. About Obama? The media? The call? The time?
posted by dhartung at 3:44 PM on November 13, 2008
You've lost me. About Obama? The media? The call? The time?
posted by dhartung at 3:44 PM on November 13, 2008
Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert react to the race being called
posted by Poolio at 3:51 PM on November 13, 2008
posted by Poolio at 3:51 PM on November 13, 2008
Joe the Plumber reacts.
Sam may say he's ready for the new president, but his website's design is lodged deep in the early Clinton years.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 4:56 PM on November 13, 2008
Sam may say he's ready for the new president, but his website's design is lodged deep in the early Clinton years.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 4:56 PM on November 13, 2008
Okay, so I finally got the chance to look at some of these on a machine where the sound and video actually works, as opposed to my work PC.
Now I am crying.
(I've never seen so many people be so happy to see Wolf Blitzer.)
I am moved not only by the election of Obama, but also by the power of the intarwebs.
These truly are wonderful times we live in.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:34 PM on November 13, 2008
Now I am crying.
(I've never seen so many people be so happy to see Wolf Blitzer.)
I am moved not only by the election of Obama, but also by the power of the intarwebs.
These truly are wonderful times we live in.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 5:34 PM on November 13, 2008
I would like to point out that this is the CuteOverload of Election Euphoria.
When I browse through CuteOverload, the massive doses of cuteness really do cause something in me to quicken, that squeeeeeee!! feeling that you get that makes you want to squeeze it and protect it at the same time. If you get enough of that in one sitting, it's actually physically draining and a bit dizzying.
Same thing with this. I'm a bit exhausted now.
posted by LMGM at 8:39 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
When I browse through CuteOverload, the massive doses of cuteness really do cause something in me to quicken, that squeeeeeee!! feeling that you get that makes you want to squeeze it and protect it at the same time. If you get enough of that in one sitting, it's actually physically draining and a bit dizzying.
Same thing with this. I'm a bit exhausted now.
posted by LMGM at 8:39 PM on November 13, 2008 [1 favorite]
I basically can't help the overflowing joy every time I watch these and others. Overflowing out my eyes?
Here's one friends and I made from our night in Oakland at the Northern California campaign HQ:
The Obama Age
posted by wemayfreeze at 9:33 AM on November 14, 2008
Here's one friends and I made from our night in Oakland at the Northern California campaign HQ:
The Obama Age
posted by wemayfreeze at 9:33 AM on November 14, 2008
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