For Even More Levity Than The Unintentionally Hilarious Joe Biden
Ken Layne, who accidentally invented live-blogging, and Choire Sicha, are liveblogging the debate at The Awl. Oh, on a self-promotional note, I will also probably be tweeting immature and snarly remarks at @amyalkon.

Newsweek or maybe TIME put up some anemic post about their liveblogging. Lots of outlets are. Yawn.

Sorry, kittens, Layne's already got you beat before it even starts with the funniest post about live-blogging the debate (links within are live at the link):

When Joe Biden and Zombie Ayn Rand Paul Ryan begin their televised debate Thursday night, hundreds of professional media employees will be "liveblogging" the proceedings for hundreds of topical websites, from the New York Times to (maybe?) PerezHilton.com. Millions of otherwise sane humans will turn on the television and then frantically reload the websites of their favorite bloggers while simultaneously making their own jokes on Twitter, Facebook and probably in the comments of the aforementioned websites. After digesting and processing thousands of one-liners and spot reactions and weird jokes about the candidates' genitalia, the now-informed electorate will "pick the best candidate," which is a fake Big Bird account on Twitter.

The founding fathers, obviously, had exactly this process in mind when they made slavery legal. But political liveblogging did not actually begin with Thomas Jefferson's giant reptilian tongue lolling around his bound, metal-bikini-clad slave girls. It is a more recent invention--and if I can be believed, then liveblogging as we know it was my accidental invention, three presidential elections ago, all because my employer (a liberal media outlet published by a conservative tycoon's namesake endowment) didn't foresee a reason to procure press credentials for my coverage of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Credentials for the Democratic convention in Los Angeles should be enough, right? It wasn't like George W. Bush was going to defeat Al Gore.

And so, on a terrible rainy evening in a motel at the very edge of Philadelphia, I had no choice but to use the new "Blogger" software on my personal website to write a frequently updated, timestamped collection of cheap jokes and ill-informed instant analysis and then post this disjointed mess on my own "web log," because of course Annenberg's Online Journalism Review published its web articles on a strict twice-a-week schedule.

Charts like this cause our president to demand MORE power and money with which to reward his friends and contributors.

OK? Everybody got it?

Crid [CridComment at gmail] at October 11, 2012 7:48 PM

Where's FDR's first term on that chart? It's the best comp.

doggone at October 11, 2012 11:31 PM

Amy Alkon

https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/10/for-even-more-l.html#comment-3378418">comment from doggone

Where's FDR's first term on that chart? I

William Henry Harrison's presidency also goes unremarked.

Amy Alkon at October 12, 2012 6:20 AM

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