Lee: Hey Sheely, let’s Overthink Miley Cyrus’s hit single, “Party in the USA.”

First question: is this song even worth Overthinking?

About a month ago, I was in the midst of writing my last article on the politics of Battlestar Galactica when I stumbled on this site.  What had happened was that I had Googled something like, “Battlestar Galactica liberal TV shows,” so I could see whether or not the masses thought the Cylons were supposed to be commies or terrorists or neocons or what. Anyway, I read the article and perused the TV-show political spectrum graph, which looks like this:

Via Gawker.

And I said, “30 Rock is the most liberal show on TV?  What the what?”  Bear in mind that, at this time in my life, I wasn’t a huge fan of 30 Rock.  It was one of those shows that I watched when I had nothing better to do, not appointment television, in other words.  Up to this point, I had probably seen around twenty episodes of the show. So I said to myself (in the accent of 30 Rock’s Kenneth Parcell), “Wait a goshdarn minute there, Ms. Mlawski!  Just because your first inclination was to disagree with this nice blogger’s TV-politics spectrum, maybe you should withhold judgment until you’ve actually watched all of 30 Rock.”

And so I did.  Over the last month, I have watched all of the remaining episodes of that lovely little sitcom and have come to the following conclusion:

“30 Rock is the most liberal show on TV?  What the what?!”