No one seems to be reporting the fact that Kerry's daughters were greeted with boos last night when they appeared at the MTV video music awards, as reported to me by my faithful colleague Jason. No word on how the taped appearance of the Bush girls was received.

ABC News notes that the daughters appeared, but says nothing about the incident:

The daughters of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and President Bush made an appearance the Bush daughters on videotape to urge people to vote. Even the Rev. Al Sharpton made an appearance connected to voting not for the election, though, but for the viewer's choice award.

Perhaps that's not surprising as the MTV video music awards are hardly newsworthy, and that almost every article published follows perhaps a single wire feed with slight modifications. But someone other than my colleague should have noticed, and given the context it seems at the very least like an item of interest.

And someone did: pop music critic Jim Derogatis at the Chicago Sun-Times, who is perhaps alone in writing an independent review of the event:

The show offered nothing to rival last year's notorious Britney Spears-Madonna kiss. The closest it got to controversy was when many in the crowd at the packed AmericanAirlines Arena loudly booed Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry, the daughters of the Democratic Presidential candidate, when they appeared to urge viewers to vote -- hopefully for their father -- in the coming election.

Jenna and Barbara Bush also popped up to give a similar message. But the President's daughters were on videotape, so if they were booed in the arena when they mentioned their dad, viewers at home never heard it.

Were the music fans and professionals in the audience really showing their dislike for Kerry, or for the politicization of entertainment?

Either way, it's worth taking a look at because it challenges a long standing stereotype, viz. that participants in the entertainment industry are by default both political and on the left.