Stupid Elections– Where’s my Favorite Tuesday Night Show?
Come on, did we really need over three hours of local election coverage on KGW, ranging from the Saxton party to the Kulongoski party to the talking-head local pundits to the empty stage waiting for Kulongoski and everything else? Were the results last night so so surprising that they just had to interrupt my primetime programming? Couldn’t KGW have stuck to the schedule that was on my Comcast box and had their 10:00 election special and just updated results at the bottom of the screen while I got to watch some FNL? (oh, and Comcast, way to drop the ball on that one). Come on, isn’t this kind of local stuff what Northwest Cable News is for?
Though it probably would have been worse if they did what they did with Law and Order and started the show only to interrupt it halfway through for some more boring punditry. Oh, the crying and gnashing of teeth that would have ensued!
At least NBC is streaming last night’s episode so I won’t have to completely miss out on my Texan teen angst and pigskin perfidy.
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Huh… weird. I turned on KGW just after 9 in hopes of election coverage and didn’t find any (I can’t recall what was on but it was some sort of normal primetime drama or such).
Come on, did we really need over three hours of local election coverage…
Yes. It was Election Day, the grandest civic holiday in the world.
hey, i’m all for election day, and i was hoping to DVR the FNL to watch the election results come in (on msnbc and the like) and was up till after midnight hoping that Montana would come in…
and i say MAKE it an actual holiday and maybe get more people to vote. or make the whole country vote by mail…
but you can’t tell me the local stuff was interesting enough to warrant all that coverage.
and aaron, yeah, they started l&o and then interrupted it
and if saxton had won and all those ballot measures had passed, then i would’ve been REALLY mad that they were giving it that much coverage. would everybody still have been watching then:) wouldn’t we have needed a bit of escapism at that point?
How friggin’ shallow are you people that you can’t give up a night of televison—to watch live news in process, this is our future, it’s every two years. Jesus. Mundane? Boring? And you’re representatives of the intellectual upper-class?
Jesus, get a life dude. Your effing future is on the line and all you want to do is spend time watching mindless drivel? You are exactly what is wrong with this country. It’s all about me, me, me. Take your silly tv and move somewhere where people don’t give a damn.
wow, it’s a good thing we (and by we, i mean all us anti-intellectual, mindless tv-watching drones who are still somehow registered, active voters concerned for our country’s future) won a bunch of elections on tuesday, ’cause i sure would hate for people who should be jumping for joy at democratic control of the house and senate to lose all sense of humor and/or irony and descend into bitterness and acrimony over a wee blog post that maybe, JUST maybe was intended as a piece of humor (”oh, the crying and gnashing of teeth–” come on, isn’t that a tiny clue that maybe i shouldn’t be taken too seriously?). but if it’s my lack of editorial and writing skill that led to some of the above comments, oops, my bad.
while i tend to try not to respond to people who tell me that i am “what’s wrong with this country” (really? it’s not that president guy and his cabal?), but felt the need this morning.
so me, i’m going to go back to lighting my cigars with $100 bills and clubbing baby seals to make my breakfast while i run over bikers in my giant hummer on my way to my job at halliburton.
I think Jonas should run in 08 based on the above comment.
I’d vote for you!
yep, clubbing baby seals is a surefire way to win elected office. i’m sure ted stevens has that one in his repertoire.
puppies are cute!
Shoulda titled this entry “Stupid SEXY elections” and then maybe they’d get it.
Stupid, sexy Jonashpdx…
mr
I love baby seals.
Especially with ketchup!