AS any of you who saw my rather gushing blog will know, I’ve become rather taken with the American election.

The scenes of jubilation in Times Square on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning were truly inspiring, but there was still a hint of American stupidity that was enjoyable to witness.

Like the fact that when Martin Luther King’s daughter was giving her reaction to Barack Obama’s historic victory, the Times Square crowd had become preoccupied by a bus that honked its horn. I kid you not. Thousands of heads turned away from the big screens and the cheering and shouting of appreciation to said bus driver totally drowned out Bernice King’s sentiments.

The steps at Times Square where the big screens were set up showing CNN had been packed all day.

By the time Republican candidate John McCain had conceded defeat, at least 5,000 people must have been within a radius of a few hundred yards.

The mere sight of Obama sent everyone into a frenzy.

And then it happened.

The big screen went blank. Then the other big screen went blank. People went absolutely beserk! I tried as hard as I possibly could not to laugh, but failed miserably.

Suddenly chants of ‘Yes We Can’ - Obama’s slogan - and the imaginative chanting of ‘O-BAM-A’ had been replaced with ‘CNN sucks’ and other less printable cries.

Surely it wasn’t a coincidence? It can’t have been.

A repair van was on the scene within minutes, but huge numbers of people, myself included, simply did what all British people generally do, they went to the pub to watch it.

It must have been a sabotage job. If not, then I suspect someone got fired today.

And finally, meet the man who saved yesterday’s dreadfully long-winded head-to-head press conference, Enzo Calzaghe.

After virtually every person in New York had got on the microphone and thanked God and Jesus and insisted that they were ‘coming to fight’ Calzaghe Sr was at his abrasive best.

He was heckled by a member of Jones’ entourage and fired back an astonishing broadside.

“Excuse my English (sic) but you lot can **** off, we don't need any ******* cheerleaders, we know why we are here and it's to win the fight.

“There are only four of us for ***** sake and we are still going to kick Roy Jones' a***. You might not like it, but that is the ******* reality,” he said, in front of several cameras.