Exactly. It's kind of like the alien's view of the "historical documents," in Galaxy Quest.
Several years ago a Pakistani missionary came to our church. His remarks were eye opening. To the Muslim world, the U.S. is viewed as a Christian nation. We're the Crusaders coming to take their land (they're taught that very early in life). So they see things like Springer and abortion and homosexuality and the rest of the crap coming out of Hollywood and they think "This is America. This is the Great Satan."
And it's not like they have the benefit of unbiased media commentators like Rather, Brokaw and Jennings...