Let Us Be Clear: Reason Editors To Live-Blog Obama's State of the Union

All those who have enough self respect not to attend what D.C.-residents unironically refer to as "State of the Union Watch Parties" are invited to check in with Hit & Run during President Obama's prime-time speech to Congress Wednesday night. As Obama speaks, Reason editors will be providing color commentary and conversation in real time using Cover It Live right here on the blog. Join us for a night of snarking, questioning, fact-checking, and trying our best not to use the "rolls eyes" emoticon.

Speech starts at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Comments

[Rimfax]

[caption contest]

"It hangs about this far...off the ground."

[Suki]

From that guy? More like "only about this much drags the ground."

[Dello]

Don't believe him! After all, he's only HALF Black...

[hmm]

and the other half is Asian!

[ed]

"Michelle's ass was this big when we bought our house on 5046 South Greenwood Avenue. Who knew?"

[dfd]

Responding to reporter's question: "Mr. President, how far can the American people trust you?"

[Nipplemancer]

"about that many jobs were created or saved..."

[P Brooks]

Don't forget the P Brooks drinking game; every time he says Fair (or a derivative thereof), it's bottoms up.

See ya in rehab!

[hellinahandbasket]

does "carnival" count? ooh i hope so!

[Slap the Enlightened!]

Rehab? Hell, if I drank that much, I'd prolly just drown.

[P Brooks]

"It's *this much* gin, and an olive which has been dunked in vermouth."

[?]

Unprecedented.

[Hank]

"This is how high the stack of Benjamins is that I'll be cutting out of federal spending. I want to give a shout out to Joe Biden for spending the afternoon stacking the bills for me."

[Suki]

+1

[Joe M]

Excellent.

[Pro Libertate]

"It's not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters."

[Peter Suderman]

Obviously, this is my favorite.

[The Gobbler]

Good luck in this week's Top Five.

[Suki]

Are the Reason Editors going to be blogging live from the Reason sky box?

[jester]

'color commentary'

tsk. tsk.

[jester]

illegal emoticon :(|)

[Almanian's]

Racist!

[jester]

We have a winner! 100 points! Congrats, you picked up on the irony! Ding! Ding! Ding!

[joshua corning]

Why isn't calling Asians tigers racist?

Why do monkeys get the bum rap.

[Pro Libertate]

I bet he dissolves Congress and names himself El Jefe. That, or he resigns and says, "Fuck you, America! See how you like living under the Biden administration! You won't have Barack to kick around anymore!"

[Hank]

That's funny.

[pan over to Biden wearing a fucking helmet, drooling]

[Suki]

Rather than a shirtless Joe Biden washing his Trans Am?

[Some Guy]

I didn't even have to click that and the image is now going to be in my nightmares.

[fishfry]

Make no mistake!

[John]

He is going to "freeze spending". I love that. It is like me putting a $4000 a month automatic debit on your checking account. And then when you complain about it, me saying that "I understand your concerns and will freeze my withdrawals from your account". Wow I feel so much better that we are freezing spending after increasing it by 50% in one year.

[ransom147]

actually, more like "i promise i probably won't increase the debit for a while..."

[Hank]

Actually more like: I increased my monthly automatic debit from your various accounts. Let's say by 30 %. To create and/or/maybe save your jobs. But, now...but now (wink, smile), let me be clear: I am going to put that automatic debit on freeze. No more, dawg. Gonna hold tight right there for a while. "Huh, what? Oh, it was 30% less before. Freeze frame, dawg. This shit is focus group tested. Chill, I'm gonna get your money back from the FatCats, Yo."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yet when someone live blogs Stossel in H&R comments no one gives a damn.

[heller]

Do people give a damn about this?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Meh.

[Charles]

"Yes, like I said, green, with a helmet, and about this tall. He call me Dum Dum."

[Charles]

"Sure I've got a birth certificate from Hawaii. And California, Illinois, Canada, Japan. I bet I got a stack this high!"

[The Johnny Appleseed of Crack]

I hope and expect that the live blogging of the SOTU address will be full of mockery. But I kind of wonder if it would be better not to cover it at all, why help Obama to get his message out?

[Fist of Etiquette]

"So when I do it, I'm about this high off the water's surface, so as to not get my feet wet. That's how much better I am at it than He was."

[Brian Lockwood]

"It was about this big. Probably 7 and a half courics. I was mostly eating P.F. Chang's at the time."

[OMG]

And I will name him Timmy ?

[Joe M]

"I'm up here, and you citizens are down here."

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm just going to say what everyone else is thinking: that we all want Obama's address tonight to consist solely of a word-for-word ripoff of the President's speech from Armageddon.

What's that you say? You want a link? Well, you got it!

[brotherben]

Greatest Science Fiction epic in the history of human cinema!

[Fist of Etiquette]

I missed your comment back on the meteor/NASA post, but I acknowledge you now as a kindred aficionado of superior filmmaking, brother.

[brotherben]

It seems that a lot of my faves have Liv Tyler in them. Go figure.

[Suki]

I thought it was tomorrow and he would be going for Independence Day?

[Fist of Etiquette]

UGLY AMERICANS, ALWAYS ASSUMING EVERYONE EXISTS IN A U.S. TIME ZONE!

Also, I mistyped.

[Suki]

Who are you calling ugly haggis face?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Haggis face? How are you able to see- DID YOU HACK INTO MY WEBCAM???

But yeah, channeling President Bill Pullman would be almost as awesome.

[distinguished gentleman]

There are those who would have you believe that I am in fact a douche-bag.

So let me set the record strait, I am a shit sandwich of bold, sweeping, unprecedented, size.

[brotherben]

"Pelosi's had so many face-lifts, her taint is this size."

[bleephole]

Let me be clear - I am lying to you.

[distinguished gentleman]

For anyone who was as out of the loop as me, the State of the Union is Wednesday the 27th, not today.

[In Time Of War]

People still watch that? Jeez, get a life.

[Suki]

I pre-ordered the BluRay release.

[BoricuaPR]

"As Obama speaks, Reason editors will be providing color commentary and conversation in real time using Cover It Live right here on the blog."

Can I say "God bless you" on this blog?

[NickM]

I second the call for a drinking game.

[dbcooper]

Someone's live blogging that tomorrow? I thought everyone was covering the Apple product launch instead.

[Suki]

The Apple product launch will not be televised.

[brotherben]

Postponed due to a Worm virus.

[Suki]

Sir Newton's head is so sore.

[strat]

"State of the union watch party" might just work if we add the conventional predicates to "watch", like "suicide" or "death."

[jester]

The State-of-the-Union Watch is at 11:59 (We're Fucked!) The Doomsday Clock is at 11:56. Can't those stupid fucks synchronize their times at least?

[jester]

Can Reason.tv insert canned laughter in place of applause and then post it after it's over?

[BoricuaPR]

Brilliant ... no doubt it would go viral

[Hazel Meade]

I'm curious to see what he says about the health care bill.

[Almanian]

Can we get Choney on a webcam/vidblog during the address? I'd do pay-per-view for that.

[Almanian]

And Caption: "Why is Biden washing the TA instead of hoopin' it up with the rest of us? Dude, his vertical is like..."

[Aresen]

No offense, Reasonoids, but given the choice between riding my horse and listening to the SOTU address, the horse wins out over the horse's ass.

I'll be out at the barn.

[Catherine the Great]

Seconded.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

Can someone produce a complete rules of the drinking game?
I have a job interview Thursday. It would be bad for me to show up hungover... or sober.

[R C Dean]

Complete rules of the SOTU drinking game:

When the President starts talking, start drinking. As fast as you can, the strongest you got. Don't stop. Ever.

[Zonpower!!!!]

Make all Americans rich, including the poor!

The Zon have spoken!

[ComradeZero]

better idea: Just tax the rich until they're poor and then give them the money back in the form of welfare...Damn Obama beat me to it!

[heller]

Obama says "cracker" on national television:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related

[kwais]

huh? that video is "blocked in my country", I don't know why, but now I am more curious than ever.

[Tulpa]

The Rickroll is the lowest form of humor.

[Douglas Fletcher]

At long last, will no one just tell Obama to go fuck himself?

[Suki]

That's what Biden's constant smirk really means these days.

[Space Ghost]

Ghost: Every time Obama says "uh", take a swig of beer. Every time he says "fair" take a shot of your favorite liqour. Obama is demonstrating the size of the container you will need. Good luck on your interview!

[Rewrite]

Now you can bet on the speech as well as drink during it. From the Washington Examiner (linked from CEI):

Paddy Power, Ireland's largest bookmaker, is taking bets on everything from the length of the State of the Union address (as I write this you can still get four-to-one for "over 55 minutes") to the color of Obama's tie (huge payoff if it's yellow).

The big bet seems to be what will be the first clich? in his speech.

For example, if the first words out of his mouth are "I will not seek re-election," you could win 250-to-one (those are the odds as I write). The more likely "health Care reform" stands at four-to-one. There are also lines on everything from the old Obama standby ("let me be clear") to the highly doubtful ("always bet on black," which began at 500-to-one).

I'll be at the Caps game myself.

BTW, would someone explain to me the difference between Orange and Black usernames or would that be racist?

[FrBunny]

Orange names have an email or website link. Black names have nothing.

Which is, in fact, racist.

[kwais]

+1

[suckitupcrybaby]

Every time he speaks he weekens the nation. Oh boy, We get to watch Pulosi and Biden behind him. Live comment will be interesting.
http://www.suckitupcrybaby.com

[FrBunny]

Your blog is to spelling as Haiti is to infrastructure.

[brotherben]

Owtch, that was crool.

[OMG]

I like that one ? your blog is to punctuation as China is to freedom

[EJM]

No Reason SOTU bingo?

[Almanian]

Cool - thanks very much EJM. Now I have something else to do while playing the drinking game and livebogging! Bingo RULES...

[Pon Kass Beech]

Hey, I think it would be a good idea if Reason staff live-blogged...

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

I'm pretty sure I already know what the State of the Union is. Don't need no president to 'splain it to me.

OTOH, it might be fun to watch Reason live blog it. That would be as close to wasting an hour of my life with this as I would get.

Regardless of what is said, there are only two sure bets:

His lips will be moving and he is a politician.

[Fellow Riv. County resident]

Good to see you are still around, TWC.

[prolefeed]

Atr.org has the Obama Bingo TM game for the SOTU address, where you get to cover expected phrases he utters until you get 5 in a row.

I'm betting it takes 10 minutes to get to bingo.

[The Libertarian Guy]

Back-to-back episodes of Futurama on Comedy Central tonight. So fuck Obama, watch yet another show Fox gave up on prematurely.

[anon]

so where's the live link?

[Bradley]

Here, evidently

http://reason.com/blog/2010/01.....gs-the-sta

[heller]

We want liveblog and we want it NOW!

[sal lewinsky]

oh goodie , its gonna be clear,
love peloosi, glad biden is lookin sober, childhood obesity, mm mmmm mmm

[sal lewinsky]

is that a booger?....
let me know