When the election results are in, this will be the obvious thing to say.
My question is: who will say it first?
Web blogs and messageboards don’t count.
I want to see it in print, or on a major network TV.
Which mainstream news organization will publish a front-page cartoon with this phrase as the caption, or a front-page article with this phrase as the headline?
For the NY Times, I can see this as a smaller thing, on the editorial page.
But somebody, somewhere will print it in big, bold letters.
I predict… John Oliver will be the first. But he’s a comedian…what about professional journalists?
On the other hand, the joke may seem so obvious that some media will shy away from it in order not to have the same headline as everyone else. I don’t know; it will be interesting to see.
I actually thought I had a good headline for any debate that Clinton was generally agreed to have won:
Debate Results: C+ and D-
To the best of my knowledge, nobody used that, though.
The line comes from The Apprentice (obviously), where none of the contestants have been hired either - until the final one, where his line was “You’re hired”. So it works.
