President Norma Desmond - The analogy would be perfect if only that HBO documentary had been a silent film!

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"As if hoping to avoid the outcome," FoxNews.com reports in a
postelection roundup, "the White House issued a statement after the GOP
win in Virginia saying the president was not watching election returns
and would not be making any remarks on the results."

He's president of the United States, after all. What are mere governors'
races to him? He just doesn't care. True, he doesn't not care enough to
refrain from putting out a statement letting you know how little he
cares. So he cares a little. He's only human; it hurts to lose. But he's
got it in perspective. He's focusing on himself right now.

Man, is he ever focusing on himself! NewsBusters.org reports on what he
was doing last night when he was ignoring the election returns:

During the 10AM ET hour of America's Newsroom on Fox
News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told
viewers what President Obama watched on election night
while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and
Virginia: "Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually
watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long
campaign and how it all went."

Good Lord, we've gone and put Norma Desmond in the White House. He is
big. It's the _elections_ that got small.

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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.

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In article <a7udnaCFytyzOm_X...@giganews.com>, web...@polaris.net
wrote:

>Man, is he ever focusing on himself! NewsBusters.org reports on what he
>was doing last night when he was ignoring the election returns:
>
> During the 10AM ET hour of America's Newsroom on Fox
> News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told
> viewers what President Obama watched on election night
> while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and
> Virginia: "Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually
> watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long
> campaign and how it all went."
>
>Good Lord, we've gone and put Norma Desmond in the White House. He is
>big. It's the _elections_ that got small.

We erred in stating that Norma Desmond is in the White House. That is to say,
the setup for that punch line turned out to be based on false information.
NewsBusters.org reports that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs did not
say President Obama had watched an HBO special on his campaign instead of
election returns Tuesday night.