A new drinking game?

I'm listening to Thom Hartman right now, who just made one of those points where you say, "Dang, I knew something not quite right was happening but I couldn't put my finger on it." Thom noted that for some years now the networks and Dems/Repubs have had a pool agreement whereby there is a single feed for the convention coverage. This is a rotating assignment, which this year falls to Fox! Thom noted that in 90 percent of the "cut-away" shots the people chosen were either looking entirely bored, talking to one another rather than listening to the speaker, or outright frowning. As soon as he said that I knew EXACTLY what he was talking about, and realized that it had bothered me without surfacing to my reality nodes. Thom's callers and guests who were actually there, said that 90 percent of the crowd were wildly cheering Kennedy, and that men and women, white and black, were opening weeping during Michelle's speech. You sure would have never know that from the Fox cut-away shots. Where were the smiling white faces?!

So, one of his callers suggested a new drinking game for the duration of the convention: every time a cut-away depicts a bored person, a yakking person, or a frowning person you take a slug of your drink. If you aren't drinking these days, use another beverage, or set up your own point system.

But, as one of Thom's guests noted, "Why are you surprised?"

~ Tom