TVSquad

If you get Current TV, you might have seen the Flash-animated shorts called SuperNews, but if you haven't, you can check out a bunch of them here. I don't receive the channel, and only found these clips on the Current TV site recently via Cold Hard Flash. Obviously, given the channel that's airing these cartoons, they're going to have a liberal/democratic bias, but setting that aside and looking at them as just goofy satirical jabs at politicians and celebrities, a lot of them are pretty funny. Some of them also fall rather flat, which is why I recommend watching them online so you can skip the ones you don't like and watch the ones you do. The cartoons were created, written, and directed by Josh Faure-Brac. The "Oprah" episode in which Dan Brown, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, and Jesus Christ get in a tiff over Jesus' sex life is especially funny.

The "liberal bias" of the media we hear so much about was called into question recently with a study released by Media Matters which claims that Sunday morning political shows such as Meet the Press, Face the Nation, and This Week  tend to have more conservative guests than liberal. Of course, some are arguing against the study. NBC argued that during Clinton's term in office there were also slightly more Republican guests on Meet the Press. The point, I suppose, is that it's not necessarily dictated by who's in office. Also, there's the question as to who's really conservative and who isn't, especially when it comes to centrists like John McCain and others. My advice? Tune into The McLaughlin Group, a show where everyone is equally a raving lunatic, no matter their political affiliation. Or, go to the zoo and watch spider monkeys fighting each other. It's pretty much the same either way.