Ohio

From The Room: We Forgive You, Samantha

March 9, 2008 - Last week, Obama campaign foreign policy adviser Samantha Power made a 
mistake that may significantly undermine the Illinois Senator's quest 
for the Democratic presidential nomination.

 She...

From The Room: Hillary Clinton's War on Hope

March 7, 2008 - When a race is summed up as Old School vs Change, you would think the best option for the old school candidate is to try to embody change. Be new, happy, exciting. But instead, Hillary Clinton has decided to become cartoonishly villainous by mocking Obama's call for hope. Watch...

From The Room: Hillary Clinton's Red Phone

March 7, 2008 - Here's an idea for an Obama ad: a montage of Clinton's Sybillish personalities that have surfaced during the campaign with a solemn voice over at the end saying, "Does anyone want this nut answering the phone?" How is it that she became the one who's perceived as...

CNN's John King stars in "Minority Report"

March 5, 2008 - As the results for the Texas and Ohio primaries rolled in, CNN was at the ready with their seizure-inducing array of gratuitous visual aides, our favorite being the John King touchscreen zoom-in machine from the future. Unfortunately, with 17 hours of coverage scheduled and scant actual results to...

Clinton wins Ohio, Texas; America wins more of this crap

March 5, 2008 - Sen. Hillary Clinton put a speedbump in the path of Barack Obama's O-mentum Tuesday night, winning the crucial Ohio and Texas primaries. Meanwhile, John McCain clinched the GOP nomination for president, and CNN won the evening with its outstanding coverage of incomprehensible two-tone blue graphs an...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Bill Cunnigham: Not Crazy, Just Excitedly Flirtateous

February 27, 2008 - FROLIC verb (frolicked, frolicking) • (of an animal or person) play and move about cheerfully, excitedly • play about with someone in a flirtatious or sexual way: he denied allegations that he frolicked with a secretary. noun (often frolics) • flirtat...

From The Room: 11 Simple Things Mike Huckabee Could Do to Save His Presidential Bid

February 14, 2008 - Persuade Lord Jesus Christ to swoop down from the heavens on his chariot and shower free Milk Duds and iPods on the people of Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Guam. Appear in three-episode arc of Lost as Sawyer's long-lost bounty-hunter half-brother, Wayne. Show up...

From The Room: A Sting to Remember

December 30, 2007 - Imagine that, during a casual stroll in an Ohio park, you happen upon a topless woman sunbathing under a tree. You strike up a harmless conversation and she rests her foot on her shoulder. Then, she slyly queries if you will perhaps reciprocate in a display of nudity. What would...