Perhaps it was the announcement that NBC News is coming out with a DVD titled "Yes We Can: The Barack Obama Story." Or that ABC and USA Today are rushing out a book on the election. Or that HBO has snapped up a documentary on Obama's campaign.Meanwhile, publishers say Sarah Palin could get $7 million for a book deal.
Perhaps it was the Newsweek commemorative issue -- "Obama's American Dream" -- filled with so many iconic images and such stirring prose that it could have been campaign literature. Or the Time cover depicting Obama as FDR, complete with jaunty cigarette holder.
Are the media capable of merchandizing the moment, packaging a president-elect for profit? Yes, they are.
Watch: RACIST Biden says: “It’s amazing. Indian-descent Americans are taking over the country” to NASA engineer
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Remember Joe Biden during the 2008 campaign, trashing Indian Americans
owning 7-11s and Dunkin Donuts stores? Well, racist Joe Biden
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