Waiting for Godot on Fox
You know the scenario: two men wait for an acquaintance who never arrives.
In this case it's the Lake County/Gary, Indiana election results. And instead of the two players in Samuel Beckett's play, it's the Fox News team led by Brit Hume and includes kvetching Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol. Barnes at one point literally complains that it's past his bedtime. Hume whines that the Democrats of Lake Country are keeping the people in America who really care about politics from doing their jobs. They get suspicious and bring analysts on the air to hint at the possibility of election fraud by pro-Obama pols. Or just the possibility that it's a bunch of lazy old people, who like Barnes, are up past their bedtimes and might have fallen asleep at their counting table.
And the despair when they declare that 6,000 of the absentee ballots tonight in Lake County may not be counted until tomorrow! Quelle horror! Just like Beckett's play, it's like they're contemplating suicide.
Hume suddenly declares that they're waiting for producers to tell them whether or not they're going off the air and handing off to another team.
Well? Shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
They do not move.
