It's Always About Us

Flying around the blogs today is an internal Fox News memo instructing its reporters to be on the look out for any Iraqi insurgents thrilled at the prospect of a Democratic controlled Congress.

Of course, as noted earlier, it looks like all the cable news channels got the same memo.

It's long been true that the only real interest the US news media take in the Iraq War is how it plays back into domestic politics. But, even worse, our politics is so delusionally self-centered that our journalists and politicians never fail to assume that Iraqi insurgents are equally obsessed with the ins and outs of our party politics.