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We Need to Discuss the CNN Holograms

by Mindy Monez November 5, 2008 1:11 PM
We Need to Discuss the CNN Holograms Like any good American and New Yorker, I watched last night's election coverage in a bar. The particular bar I was in had about 12 giant TV screens tuned to Fox, CNN and MSNBC, so I got a pretty well-rounded exposure to the coverage, and to several glasses of something called a "Blue State Shooter," which was in a pilsner glass, so it technically was not a shooter, but that's not the point of this post. My point is that CNN had the most entertaining coverage, for the following three reasons: 1) They had Anderson Cooper, who is America's sweetheart (also, it may have been the Blue State Shooters playing tricks on my eyes, but I swore I noticed for the first time that Andy is shorter than Wolf Blitzer, which just blew my mind all apart), 2) Paul Begala is the funniest man on television and I'm not exaggerating, and 3) THEY HAD HOLOGRAMS LIKE IN STAR WARS! I'm serious! It was like a less sad version of when Superman would get messages from his dead parents in the Fortress of Solitude! It was like if Kirk and Bones spontaneously started talking about the 2008 election when they came back from a mission!

For some reason, they decided to forgo the pedestrian use of satellite feeds in favor of beaming their remote commentators in via hologram (it said that on the screen, by the way -- "Via Hologram"), where they would materialize before Anderson Cooper in full, two-dimensional form and discuss politics. Everyone I was with last night, everyone I've talked to today about it, and everything I've read on the internet today hated the stunt with a passion, but you know what? I ate it up. I thought it was the greatest thing ever, even if it was just Will.I.Am, whose opinion on politics I could not possibly want to hear less. I found this new fake technology to be completely necessary (way more necessary than the bizarro fake rotunda NBC had going on), and I sincerely hope other channels adopt it. Watch below and please tell me you agree with me and that I'm not alone in my hologram passion!

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