New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
July 16, 2009 6:55 PM   Subscribe

New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time. (single video link)
posted by WCityMike (12 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: the onion is still the onion. -- jessamyn



 
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posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:04 PM on July 16, 2009 [1 favorite]


Robocop did this joke some time ago.
posted by cjorgensen at 7:14 PM on July 16, 2009


Cortex will kill this 10, 9, 8....
posted by pianomover at 7:38 PM on July 16, 2009


it's easier to just "friend" the onion in facebook and get this stuff there.
posted by snofoam at 7:40 PM on July 16, 2009


Didn't they already do this during the '08 debates?
posted by Sys Rq at 8:00 PM on July 16, 2009


So now I have to join Facebook and Metafilter? Next you'll be telling me I need an account on Reddit to get all the good stuff.
posted by yath at 8:17 PM on July 16, 2009


So Max Headroom did this 15 years into the past.
posted by Nelson at 8:29 PM on July 16, 2009


Ouch.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 8:29 PM on July 16, 2009


PO Box.
posted by flatluigi at 8:36 PM on July 16, 2009 [1 favorite]


It is really funny.
posted by Flashman at 8:51 PM on July 16, 2009


I remember that Max Headroom episode.

The best Onion News Network episode was the one about the Supreme Court and capital punishment. The bit with the transcript where every justice says "I am the law" is making me giggle right now.
posted by infinitewindow at 9:03 PM on July 16, 2009


This video had me reaching to re-re-read Neal Stephenson's Interface.

My favorite part (of that book) may be the cynical names that a political-consulting firm assigns to the various demographic categories of the electorate, including:

- Irrelevant Mouth-Breather
- 400-Pound TAB Drinker
- Economic Roadkill
- Pent-Up Corporate Lickspittle
- High-Metabolism World Dominator
- Midamerican Knickknack Queen
- Snuff-Hawking Basement Dweller
- Depression-Haunted Can Stacker
- Frosty-Haired Coupon Snipper
- High-Fiber Duck Squeezer
- Post-Confederate Gravy Eater
- Trade School Metal Head
- Orange County Book Burner
- Shit-Kicking Wrestlemaniac
etc...
posted by rodeoclown at 9:43 PM on July 16, 2009


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