Obama picks Joe Biden (nullus?)

I'm watching CNN right now before I go work like a Hebrew slave at the BGM, and they're talking about the Obama's VP pick, Joe Biden, the guy who called him "clean" during the primaries.

They said the Biden VP pick was announced on TV a good two and a half hours before the text message came out. Also, the text message came out at 3 in the morning. The fuck? Did the cable networks force the Obama campaign's hand, or were they always planning on announcing it in the middle of the night, when only drunks like thoruaely77 were awake?

Did any of you fruits actually sign up to get the text message? I guess that kinda ended being a gyp, unless you were actually awake in the wee hours of this morning. Not that it cost anything other than what it costs to get a text message, but still.