Columns

On cable they seem really upset that Barack Obama’s stage at Invesco Field involves some classical columns to invoke the civic architecture of America:

It’s funny that cable news never seemed to object to column backdrops before. I keep reading liberals bloggers saying the cable nets are getting “played for suckers” by insisting on endlessly re-airing every video press release from the McCain campaign. But that assumes that the cable networks are making some kind of good-faith attempt to inform their viewers and falling short, an assumption that I don’t think holds much water.