I encourage everyone to head over to the website of The Daily Local News (out in West Chester) and view this 2008 year in review video.
It’s pretty much the best year in review anyone could possibly do; the narrator uses a great voice that sounds like a parody of John Facenda, and the video suddenly, randomly ends with, “Joe Biden picks a puppy!” and a prediction for an Eagles’ Super Bowl win.
In other year-end news: Last night, on the Channel 69 news, the #1 story of the year was Obama’s election. The #2 was the debut of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs.
Hey, there’s Joe Biden, taking in the Eagles game last night in South Philadelphia. And with him is Hollywood Hamels, enjoying his status as a Philadelphia hero. Let’s zoom the camera a bit and focus in on Cole and… hey!
Don’t pan away from Hamels! You’re in Philadelphia, NBC cameras. Since when does the VP trump the World Series MVP around here? Talk to me when Joe Biden wins Most Valuable Vice President.
Look how NBC is treating Cole. The man has to move his neck in from offscreen to get on camera. How rude. Doesn’t the channel know what’s important?
Ahh, yes, here is the shot for the viewers, not Cole Hamels but Jeffrey Lurie, who also recently struck out 30 people in the playoffs. Clearly this is all the panning and zooming NBC needs to do.
Check out the clip above, where WFTV anchor Barbara West (whoever that is) interviews Joe Biden and quotes Karl Marx. No, really, she does. This new “Obama is a socialist/Marxist” meme is pretty awesome. Trust me, if Barack Obama were a Marxist I’d be encouraging you to vote for him every day. Not because I’m a Marxist but because it’d be so freaking awesome to have a socialist president. Think of the hijinks!
But I digress. The best part of this interview is how West’s doesn’t respond to any of Biden’s answers. It’s not an interview, really. It’s more like Biden got a list of questions he had to answer and he’s responding to them incredulously since they quote Karl Marx and ask if America’s days as a world power are over and such. And West just keeps asking seemingly fake questions even as Biden wonders if this is a Comedy Central stunt or something. It’s like she’s not even paying attention. Simply awesome.
Well, well! It looks like Sarah Palin is a fake Phillies fan indeed! Instead of watching Game 2 like everybody else, Palin will apparently be debating Joe Biden tonight on the teevee.
KYW 1060 details the brand new dilemma: Two things on television at the same time that people want to watch! Who ever knew there could be two interesting things on TV at once? I had no idea the medium had gotten that good.
Of course, the radio station calls in an expert to let us know what will actually be happening:
Miller also points out that baseball is a game with a lot of pauses and down time, and he suspects a lot of remotes will get a workout if there’s a conflict.
Ahh, yes, the so-called “remote control.” A fine new invention, but I doubt it will catch on.
Here’s CBS 3’s clip of hot hot hot presidential primary action, including a recap of big news that Joe Biden dropped out of the race, a move nearly 100 percent of political nerds saw coming. Also, I left in the hot current story about Dr. Phil visiting Britney Spears.
Noted UFO enthusiast, presidential candidate and little person Dennis Kucinich isn’t expected to make much of a showing in Iowa tonight. (Did you hear? We’re electin’ a president already!)
In the latest poll, Kucinich is at 1 percent. To put it in perspective, on the Republican side, Ron Paul polls at 10 percent.
He doesn’t have that much to fear, though. In a caucus of kids at Central High School, little Dennis finished second! Barack Obama won the caucus, which KYW 1060 reported by getting quotes like, “So it’s interesting to note Hillary’s slippage among potential voters here at Central and how that’s going to play out across the rest of the nation.” Okay.
Joe Biden finished third place, which is pretty much even funnier than Kucinich finishing second.
Temple English professor Sue Wells watched last month’s Democratic debate at Drexel, and the Temple News‘ blog asked whose supporters had the best cheers. The winner, of course, was Barack Obama:
According to Wells, the most creative chants came out of the Obama camp. Such gems as “1,2,3,4, let Obama end the war, 5,6,7,8, Obama is our candidate.”
Among the losers were Joe Biden (”Let’s go Joe!”) and none other than Ron Paul, whose supporters could only muster up this: “Roooon Paaauuuulll!” That’s it? Come on, the Ron Paul supporters accused me of working for Rupert Murdoch. They can do better than just Ron Paul’s name.
Geeze, just adapt the “Be Aggressive” chant: “We, the people, we, we, the people.” Actually, that’s kind of perfect. Man, the free market can work wonders!
Update: Ron Paul comment flood! The things people have posted don’t quite work as chants, though. “Say yes to Dr. No” is a good slogan, but hard to chant. “Ron Paul Revolution — Bring back the constitution” doesn’t scan, but I suppose it’s okay. (Adding “The” in front of Ron Paul would work, though.) And while “Stop the war in Iraq!, No war on Iran!” is something I’d agree with, it doesn’t even rhyme at all! Geeze. Ron Paul wants to be president and his supporters don’t even have a good rhyming slogan?
• Allen Iverson’s mom has gone an bought herself a basketball team! The Richmond Iversons Warriors will play in the ABA, a small pro league where anyone with $20,000 and a dream can buy a team. Look for her at courtside, holding up a “THAT’S MY TEAM!” sign. [AP/FOX Sports]
• Appearing on FOX News Sunday, Delaware Senator Joe Biden refuted the notion that he’s too Northern (I guess) to run for President. How so? To wit: “You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.” Tune into the Sunday talk shows next week, when Biden notes all the lynchings the state’s had. [Wonkette]
• Pagans — the, uh, loosely affiliated religious groups, not the motorcycle gang — recently held a conference in Fort Washington. How wild was it? As the Northeast Times notes, “They even wore T-shirts, tank tops, shorts, skirts, sneakers and sandals. And some had baseball caps, too.” [NET]
• It’s going to be a little longer before Northeast Philadelphian and astronaut goes into space, as the shuttle launch has been delayed. [AP/Yahoo!]
Well, well! It looks like Sarah Palin is a 
