Jon Stewart, on the health care summit: “That looks like the most boring seder I’ve ever seen.” Watch.
Sen. Bunning (R-KY) uses filibuster rules to block unemployment benefits for over a million, complains he had to miss a basketball game to do it.
Sam Marshall makes successful, brave, first visit to dentist. Reportedly earns Incredible Hulk sticker.
Okay, let’s take stock here.
New York had one governor resign. And now his unelected replacement is now not going to run again and he may resign too.
Not much better to the South where we had Gov. McGreevey resign after a gay affair with a man he put on the state payroll.
I guess that leaves Connecticut. Sure the last governor, John Rowland (R) had to spend some time in the slammer. But, hey, he got out a while ago.
If this isn’t bad enough, the NY-GOV situation even has difficult editorial fall out. You try to do a headline saying Paterson is dropping his reelection bid. But, of course, he was never elected governor. So you can’t say it’s a reelection bid. But then it’s awkward to say he’s not running for governor because that headline doesn’t signal to readers that he’s the incumbent. So, as you can see, it’s a mess.
Gov. Paterson has reportedly decided NOT to run for reelection.
Birther queen Orly Taitz blasts John McCain for attacking her in an anti-birther ad targeting his primary opponent, Rep. J.D. Hayworth.
Okay, if you’re the scammin’est Governor in these United States and you’re secretly bringing your girlfriend to the big governors bash in DC (and denying it right and left), who do you make sure you get your picture taken with?
I mean, you’ve really got to get your picture taken with the master, Mark Sanford, right? The second scammin’est Governor in the USA.
The White House says that over the course of the day the White House webcast of the summit served 3.9M streams and peaked at 60k concurrent viewers. By contrast the State of the Union webcast served 1.3M streams and peaked of 85k.
Now, this is clearly not an apples to apples comparison. You can see the State of the Union address on every channel. So there’s not much reason to watch it on the White House feed unless you’re stuck at your computer without access to TV. And even then you can watch it streaming on a bunch of news websites. But that’s still a pretty robust comparison.
It’s certainly not a perfect measure. But over the years I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for how different kinds of political events bump traffic on TPM. And there was a much bigger bump than I would have expected for an event like this.
Let me know whether you’ve come across other metrics that give some sense of how many people tuned in to watch some of this.