"Barack understands that what we're lacking in this nation are will and hope," Michelle Obama said. "Our souls are broken."

Shut. Up. Just shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP! Liking politicians better when I don't have to listen to them speak is not exactly a new thing, but Team Obama is taking it to a whole new level of PLEASE SHUT UP.

I can't wait for new SNL. I need them to make fun of Obama A LOT.

PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. Are people so crazy that satire has been rendered redundant and superfluous?

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Satire is dead.

I know that sometimes this show infuriates me, but I love it so much and I will miss it desperately when it's gone.

( Veronica Frakkin' Mars )

SO. There was other TV on tonight, but it was not nearly as good, so I have forgotten all about it. And, damn, but I forgot to vote for AI. I think I still have ten minutes, so I'm going to go rush and that. Jordin and Melinda!

ETA: OMG, I ALMOST FORGOT. George W. Bush and Laura showing up to thank American Idol for the IGB special was HILARIOUS. It's just like that American Dreamz movie where Dennis Quaid plays a president with epically low approval ratings who uses American Idol Dreamz to give him a boost. Satire truly is dead.

Has anyone else seen the "Chain Hang Low" video (YouTube)? When I first saw it, I assumed it was tongue-in-cheek. But Renita swears up and down that it's not. I certainly hope that she's wrong, but if she isn't I am officially declaring satire dead. (I am going to stop my useless bitching about MTV as soon as I am out of their targeted demo, I promise.)

Also, if you're interested in the mechanics of TV networks, this chart is pretty nifty. It lists the prices of average ad buys for every show. CSI: Las Vegas is priced at a staggering $347,000. Veronica Mars cashes in at a sad $52,000. Apparently, most of the ad space is sold during the upfronts, but if shows don't perform as well as the network promises their clients (*cough* Studio 60 *cough*), they have to compensate their clients, usually with free advertising time.

Barack Obama is on the record as thinking about running for President in 2008. I have been singularly unimpressed with Senator Obama over the past two years for the reasons stated here, so I don't really know how I feel about that.

The RNC has been airing commercials that, should they be successful in retaining control of Congress, will probably be as famous as Lyndon B. Johnson's "Daisy" ad from the sixties. It contains ominous quotes from Bin Laden and Al Zawahiri about another terrorist attack inside the United States. In the background a ticking timeclock ticks faster and faster until a mushroom cloud explodes. Then in a scary font on an empty, black screen: "These are the stakes. Vote November 7." (YouTube)

The Democrats have already been all over the media whining about the poor taste and the complete unfairness of the ad. (Because that worked so well in 2002 and 2004!) You know what they should do? They should stop bitching and retaliate. They have footage of President Bush saying quote-unquote that he doesn't think about Bin Laden. They have CNN's footage of the North Korean bomb test. They have the footage from Katrina. We have everything we need to make one hell of a rebuttal.

ETA: And here their rebuttal is. Of course, it sucks. Of course.

Just in case you needed more proof that this country is going COMPLETELY INSANE!