E! News ftw!

So the other night I was watching one of America's last relevant news shows, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Since I don't have time to sit at home all day and watch C-SPAN, CNN, or Fox News, it's good to have a resource for a summary of the important events that I have missed. Tonight, there was discussion of the attire of our presidential hopefuls. Apparently, the news of the world or the events at Capitol Hill are less important than observing that our presidential candidates don't want to dress to sharp for fear of appearing gay. While I will concede that gay men have impeccable fashion sense, I don't honestly see how this breaking story is worthy of national attention. Also included in the summary was the observation that Hillary Clinton showed cleavage for the first time in her campaign. This prompted me to ask myself: would I vote for her boobs? Or any woman's for that matter? Would you vote for boobs? It may be her biggest advantage over the the other Dem candidates and I hadn't even thought about it until our national news services decided that it should be brought to our attention. How could I have missed such an important issue? I guess I must have skimmed right over it on BBC's website.

So, Hillary Clinton is sporting cleavage? Now, this is may be news since she is the only female candidate, but rest assured that if there were multiple female candidates, cleavage would have been an issue way earlier on, or at least exposed much earlier. After all, women right now are rocking the vote. If we look at the 2004 presidential vote numbers, men only had about a 56.3% turnout of registered voters, while women had a 60.1% turnout. The physical numbers match the percentages, with more women voting than men. Should more cleavage make an appearance at debates, it's arguable that more men would register to vote, as sex tends to sell, regardless of what it's selling. The presidential speeches might be more appealing. Would more men watch the news if the President of the U.S. had partially exposed breasts at every press event?

Speaking of partially exposed breasts, let us not forget about Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. These women can't control themselves and our media can't control themselves either. I've seen news reporters trying to gain credibility by making a big deal about not reporting about these loose women. However, they ultimately fail because the news stations seem to want to be more like E! than an actual news source. Not only does our government need something of an intervention, but our media needs a complete overhaul. Instead of what celebs did what, they should be trying to educate their viewers.

Until that overhaul happens, I'll be watching my mock news shows and cheering on Presidential Hooters.