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UNITY-Fest Breaking News Update: The Clothing Analysis!

Per a chyron flashing on MSNBC in its currently uninterrupted Unity coverage: “COLOR COORDINATION: OBAMA’S TIE MATCHES CLINTON’S SUIT” The color in question, by the way,...
June 27, 2008

Per a chyron flashing on MSNBC in its currently uninterrupted Unity coverage:

“COLOR COORDINATION: OBAMA’S TIE MATCHES CLINTON’S SUIT”

The color in question, by the way, is light blue. As in, the color of water (under the bridge). As in, the sky (is the limit). As in, as MSNBC commentators went out of their way to call it, “unity blue.” I spy, with my little eye…something united!

Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.