grrrr

(R) Again, the Chiefs game is not viewable here in St. Louis. Bad bad bad! (But this isn't the local TV's fault; it's due to the NFL's bizarre blackout rules where I can't watch the AFC game on CBS because even though the Rams are in the NFC, this game happened to be the noon game on CBS.)

And to make matters worse, the programming I caught as filler on CBS was something called Sunday conversation within the CBS evening news. The segment I saw was two follow-up interviews to Bush being elected a year ago. Perhaps this was part of a larger series, in which case the following complaint I have doesn't apply and the only problem is that they didn't explain it was part of a series.

But I seriously doubt it. You see, they interviewed two couples before the election and now a year later and asked variously useless questions like, give the president a grade. Why two? Well, the obvious answer would be the artificial yet oh-so-loved game of "us vs them". [Sorry, I've been told the correct terminology is blue staters and red staters]

Except, even that bad game wasn't in play. Nope, instead, both interviews were with die-hard Bush supporters from St. Petersburg, FL. It was two couples, both married, both oldish middle-age, both white, both homeowners...wtf? Even Fox usually has someone they at least pretend represents "liberal" interests.

Don't get me wrong, the interviews were revealing, particularly the incredible belief that some conservatives still hold that the invasion of Iraq was related to Islamic extremism and the fact that one of the married couples now only give Bush a C+. But basically, this was essentially propaganda not only unrepresentative of substantive issues but unrepresentative of anything in American politics right now.

In other words, it's exactly what those of us who know which way the media is really biased expect from the corporate media.