Scrub-a-dub-dub

I enjoy watching Fox News AND MSNBC. (I find CNN, with Blitzer's beard, Cooper's crew cut & King's dentures, completely unwatchable.) There's something fun & interesting about deciphering media and party bias. Fox, with Hannity/Ingraham/O'Reilly at the helm, makes that game much less challenging. That doesn't mean that Dick Morris can't continue to supply limitless joy in that arena.

All the talking points get old though. The latest trick, on both sides, is to point to something the opposition got nailed for, and cry about some hypothetical situation where their party would have been blasted ten- fold for the same gaff. And that's what the Presidential race really boils- down to these days. Gaffs.

All national news has become over- saturated with politics, but that seems to be what American's wanted. All ego- driven shallow network anchors frequently tout their ratings, but they probably can't quantify how much of "their audience" is watching for different reasons.

UPDATE: John Stewart surprised me recently with an entire segment blasting Obama for his Public Campaign finance flop. It was funny, but he really had to work to get the audience to laugh.

the one takeaway I got from McCain is the flippy-floppy thing. He seems to 180 on all of his stuff regularly, depending which way the wind is blowing.