Either the foreign news media loves to interview fat, ignorant Americans or that is what we are. I think it's probably more of the former because it sells this image of America that most of their viewers want to see. I also notice the foreign news media (The BBC) does not give a balanced version of the story - ie, there are people who support health care reform. It only shows people hating on Obama and dissing European (socialist)- style health care. Which is worse? The American right-wing news media, which lobbies hard for a position and castigates the other side or the left-wing British media, which paints those right wingers in an inscrupulous light? Neither gets at the truth, which is what health care reform will do once enacted....I still wonder.