CNN (King/Blitzer/etc) having to awkwardly explain

[madaboutharry]

why the race hasn’t been called.

“We need to be super, super sure that Tinkerbell isn’t going to sprinkle fairy dust on the vote totals and magically give Trump tons of extra ones.”

[eleny]

1. Oh, please tell me that this is verbatum

[Demsrule86]

9. I was throwing nerf balls at the TV when I hear all the stupid excuses.

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Funny that they weren't so cautious in 2016.

[dweller]

3. Is cnn

Owned by Disney ?
🤔

✌🏻

[coti]

4. They've been abused by Trumpists and are afraid. Nt

[gratuitous]

15. Yes, and . . .

I think every news outlet has been burned at one time or another by Trump. He'll say something that strongly implies some despicable point of view, and someone will report that he said the despicable thing. Then Trump gleefully goes all "fake news" and denies that he actually said the despicable thing. The media have learned to be really cautious, because Trump is as crafty as the worst message board trolls you might come across. Nobody wants to get out over their skis and they're fearful that a premature call might be jinxed or Trump will pull some miracle comeback, and they'll be left with egg on their faces.

I'm confident there are behind-the-scenes discussions, perhaps even heated discussions, about getting the scoop versus getting shafted by a ridiculous turn of events.

[CottonBear]

5. Would've been nice if they had acted this way in 2000.

FUCK the MSM.

All I can think of is what and where we would be if Al Gore had been President.

[LizBeth]

6. Enabling Trump his tantrums like people have done his whole life. Media, the Democratic Party.

No wonder he does it all the friggin time all his life. He gets away with it. No one else would be afforded this treatment but trump is special.

[Demsrule86]

11. Lizbeth, you and I are on the same page.

Did Chris Hayes just say it wouldn't be called for a 'few weeks'. That is unacceptable.

[LizBeth]

13. I do not know but if they wait a couple weeks, that is truly offensive.

Neither of my kids had tantrum beyond their first or second one and it is all about a clear line and can well be done in love and then it is painless for the little one so really the humane thing to do. I do not get peoples thought process on this. Calling it matters. Now we have the SC stepping in it and that matters. I am not going to pretend none of these things matter cause we are 'fraid of the little whimpering commander in chief wetting himself.

[Demsrule86]

14. It needs to be called. They sure as hell didn't care about Hillary's feelings the blonde on CNN

was truly feeling Trump's pain...I wanted to vomit.

[LizBeth]

16. Yup

[Yavin4]

18. Southpark - Cesar Milan trains Cartman. This would work on Trump as well.

[Hoyt]

7. AP called the 2016 race about 2:29 PM Nov 9. They were the first to call it.

https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/calling-the-presidential-race-state-by-state


We didn’t have mail in ballots anywhere near volume of 2020, needing processing and ultra-accuracy.

I think we are being overcritical. Besides, it doesn’t matter. Even GOPers know trump has lost, whether they admit it or not.

[LizBeth]

17. The election was held Nov 8.

[Yavin4]

19. From your link about the 2016 election...

In a staff note, Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll described AP’s election night vote count and other coverage:

“The race calls were a stone cold thing of beauty, culminating in the ultimate call that put AP ahead of all others when the margins were sometimes no bigger than an eyelash.”

[Demsrule86]

8. They sure as hell didn't have any concern about Hillary now did they.

They projected the race and then beat up on Hillary for not conceding fast enough.

[BannonsLiver]

10. "And we've got a lot of reverse mortgages and diabetic supplies to sell."

[DeminPennswoods]

12. It's so bad, on a local high school football

broadcast, the announcers joked that a game where one team was up by 5+ TDs was "too close to call".