Getting giddy on election night: Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos on ABC News. CREDIT: AP
Pundits and top-drawer journalists were out in force pontificating last night for election night 2012. Karl Rove was losing his mind on Fox News. On CNN, John King was working his magic fingers on the magic board, down to the county. The MSNBC crew was partying it up.
But the one personality getting the most buzz this morning: Diane Sawyer.
A few times, a seemingly giddy Sawyer slurred her words and mispronounced others, with a few oddly placed pauses to make people think something was amiss. Someone quickly created a “drunk Diane Sawyer” on Twitter, where comments about her behavior proliferated. Singer Josh Groban noted on Twitter, “I’ll have what Diane Sawyer is having.”
Perhaps she was just tired.
“OK,” she said at one point at about 10 p.m.. “I wanna — can we have our music, because this is another big one here? Minnesota, we’re ready to project Minnesota, rrright now. … Well, tonight we know that President Barack has won Minnesota.”
And here’s Karl Rove questioning Fox News calling Ohio:
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To Tell the Truth
November 7th, 2012
2:39 pm
What a MORON!! All the media suckin up to Barry!!! This makes me SICK!!! How the hell can America re-elect Santa? Failed economic policies etc!!!!!
Unreal!!!!
To Tell the Truth
November 7th, 2012
2:48 pm
@Tired of fighting you got it backwards as this is the only reason that Blacks voted. They vote based upon skin color only!! What else? Unemployement as high as it is, more on welfare and food stamps in the history of the country. Black radio encouraging Blacks to go out and vote for Barry and this is not considered Racist? Give me a break! Blacks all will stick together no matter what the facts are!
Enough Said!!!!
JPwoodstock
November 7th, 2012
3:03 pm
@You people
Perhaps you forgot which president and congress got us into this financial mess and two wars. Stop revising/forgetting history. BTW, how strange that Dubya and Chaney were nowhere to be seen or heard during the campaign. Could it be they would remind you and other forgetters how we got here?
snottrocket
November 7th, 2012
3:05 pm
The funny thing about this election is that right wingers are thinking now in 2012 what left wingers were thinking the day after the election in 2004: people are stupid.
I couldn’t disagree more. People liked where things were going at the time so they decided that 4 more was okay…of course by the end of the second term, they were too preoccupied by fear-mongering to notice that the economy was going to hell, banks were about to die and be angry.
Why? Because there are two kinds of listeners: those who see the rhetoric for what it is, roll their eyes and research the outrage that they’re presented with and those who take it all in at face value as the be all-end all and begin spreading the un-vetted information they’ve been given.
Fact: talk radio pundits are ENTERTAINERS first and foremost. They’re not teachers..they’re not gurus..they’re not “ministers of enlightenment”. ENTERTAINERS. It’s a valid market because people like to be outraged.
So, this whole thing can go two ways…washington can start coming to terms and show that they’re making an effort to bring the land of sweet madam blue back to it’s former glory or they can spend the next 2-4 years being stubborn and we fall further into a hole becomes more challenging for us to get out of.
Right now, people need to start focusing on putting pressure on their representatives in congress and the senate to make this machine work again. Quick gloating and/or whining. Pressure. Make them work for us or work on firing them. Simple as that.
Seriously why?
November 7th, 2012
3:19 pm
I was raised in Alabama, have lived in both California and Georgia.The most racist people I’ve ever met lived in California, but they were not true Californians. They were northerners just passing through. Georgia is not full of rednecks….obviously you’ve never been to Georgia if you believe that. I am not a redneck. I work and I have never received any form of government assistance. Who I voted for? The person that I thought was most qualified, based on his experience..nothing to do with race or religion.
ZinoDawg
November 7th, 2012
3:28 pm
Until the GOP gets out of bed with the Religious Right this will be the outcome in future elections as well.
We need a party that is fiscally responsible but socially tolerant to the rights of gays and women. But the power brokers in DC will make sure that never happens.
done
November 7th, 2012
3:31 pm
a 30sec ad to see a 24sec clip? I don’t think so
Highlander
November 7th, 2012
3:40 pm
I was going to post something but after reading quite a few of the ignorant, hate-baiting comments from BOTH sides (!), I’ve decided to abstain.
Tap Out
November 7th, 2012
3:43 pm
Winning feels good.
burntgrassroot
November 7th, 2012
3:52 pm
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, the United States of America elected its President. The US Constitution assures that majority rules, and minority rights are protected. It is every citizen’s responsibility to exercise the rights that the US Constitution assures, be informed (e.g. President Obama has issued 141 Executive Orders not 900 per The American Presidency Project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php ), and to diligently hold our elected representatives accountable as they serve, not lead, the American people.
We as a nation have too many real problems to solve to allow politicians, pundits or contrarians to drive the conversation, create confusion or be self-serving. Members of the legislative, judicial and executive branches get a check whether or not they serve the citizens’ interests. It is the university (unified diversity) of the US citizenry that contributes to the success of this political experiment called America–we must each work with our own hands with the goal of success.
“Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.” Gal6.7,9-10
Anti-Socialism
November 7th, 2012
4:14 pm
I do not give two Sh&*ts if Obama is black, brown, purple, straight, gay or bi-sexual. What I do care about is his Socialism agenda. He strongly agrees and has said it publically hundred plus times that he believes in wealth distribution which is the core Socialistic value and is NOT what our country was based on. Couple that with Obama-care (Socailized medicine), trillions of dollars in debt and higher taxes and our country is doomed. Why can not people just admit and own what they are – if you support Obama you believe in Socialism-period.
MArum
November 7th, 2012
4:28 pm
Lack of sleep is the best natural high in the world.
Mama Says
November 7th, 2012
4:38 pm
Hey idiots !
Obama won Ohio, Florida and Virginia by a point.
this is hardly a victory for you guys, lay off the pipe and look at the numbers.
it is essentially evenly divided. YOU are not in any appreciable majority wake up. Mr. Wonderful in your eyes barely got 51% of all the voters, and he is God remember ?
Ben Franklin
November 7th, 2012
5:13 pm
Obama is an inexperienced silver tounged liar and the people that voted for him are mindless sheep that can’t think or do for themselves. bahhh bahhh
TG
November 8th, 2012
10:31 am
Did you people really enjoy Bush’s presidency that much that you would want to repeat it? I’m curious, can you name a Republican president who was actually good for your quality of life? If you look at all the graphs (MATH) and numbers, the economy and the country as a whole seems to grow more under Democratic presidents. So I’m trying to understand what makes Obama so much worse than Bush or Bush’s dad or even Reagan (who busted the defict wide open and created a huge drug culture and more poor folks in the process?) When you wax nostalgic about “your” America, to what are you specifically referring?