News for Dems: apparently late night talk shows are politically biased. Did you hear about this? According to the Sacramento Bee:
[Schwarzenegger] stands to receive at least several minutes of free national airtime tonight during a critical stretch in his race against Angelides, not to mention promotional blurbs during primetime shows. Californians voting by mail have begun to receive ballots, while less than four weeks remain until the Nov. 7 election.
California Democrats are up in arms about the Governator's appearance on tonight's broadcast, citing it as a clear violation of the FCC's equal time provisions. But in today's Daily Show universe, news shows and entertainment often blur together. Broadcast entertainment programs must provide equal time if a left-out candidate requests it, but news programs are exempt on free-speech grounds. The Tonight Show belongs to the NBC entertainment division, not its news branch.
Schwarzenegger is slated to appear with German model Heidi Klum. A rousing debate about immigration and the current season of Project Runway will inevitably follow.
Lets face it: Angelides just isn't good late night entertainment: he doesn't make for good monologue material. And as appealing as Angelides wants to make himself out to be, Kindergarten Cop taints our political objectivity.
How political will tonight's show get? If a recent comment by Leno is any indication, not very much: "California has become the first state to limit the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...Governor Schwarzenegger signed the legislation and promised — 'to travel back to the future and see what kinds of effect it would have in the future.'"
But then again, even bad publicity is still publicity.
--Eugene
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