I am really into American politics
I spent way too much time tonight thinking about the Democratic National Convention. Which is weird. First, because I am not American. Second, because it really is kind of empty pageantry, almost completely devoid of purpose or relevance. They can’t pick the candidate at the National Convention anymore, because the National Convention happens only three months before the election and, seriously, what kind of legitimate first-world election has a campaign that short? (The answer to that is ‘almost all of the parliamentary ones, but, dude, shut up.)
I will say this, though: when did CNN get so terrible? I know Fox News Channel is the popular whipping boy as far as cable news channels go — and, damn, do they ever deserve it — but CNN is, I think, worse at the moment. At least Fox has the twisted decency to wear its bias on its sleeve, hiring Karl Rove and running all sorts of terrible headlines in that stupid ticker.
CNN, on the other hand, has this air of still being legitimate. But the honest truth about them is that they’re a bunch of muckracking assholes. They’re not necessarily biased toward any political angle, but they’re clearly desperate for big drama all the goddamned time. It’s to the point where they can’t speak to a woman at this convention without asking her, first, if she is a Hillary supporter and, more importantly, if she hates Barack Obama because of it.
Wolf Blitzer is perhaps the only political TV personality without a grasp on how politics work. James Carville is like a hundred years old and just hates everything that young people might like. Anderson Cooper is awesome but clearly looks uncomfortable. And the rest of them are a bunch of tools.
That crazy touch-screen they have IS pretty cool, though. It’s like a giant iPhone!