TRIVIAL THINGS NOTICED BY A DEPRESSED ALL NIGHT US ELECTION WATCHER
2: “Apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”
Anothe BBC favourite this, when things got a bit quiet they flashed over the the journo with the lime green jacket on in Ohio who told us that “apparently they’re still voting in Ohio”.
This was fine at 1am. It was interesting at 2am. It was extraordinary at 3am.
It was fucking unbelieveable at 5am. Esepcailly when they showed “live footage” of the still long queues in Columbus. It was light. It was almost midnight and yet it was as bright as day. Suddenly the still voting story appeared to be a BBC fraud yet again to have something to talk about.
Of course they did not have this problem on ITN News channel where they had to spend three hours trying to claw back from the prediction at 2am that Kerry would get 310 electoral college votes.