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Wow.

Just stumbled across the 6 pm EST top of the hour news break on Fox News. Amazing. Bizarro world stuff.

Not a single word about the Scooter Libby fingering "his superiors" [Cheney].

Not a single word about Brownie making clear that the White House lied their asses off.

Not a single word about the CIA's head Middle East guy saying Bush cherry-picked intel to start a war.

These are all top stories on any legit news site you want to look at. Period. Not arguable.

In other news, not a single word about Abramoff meeting Bush a dozen times, or the trade deficit hitting an all-time high, or that the world is the warmest it has been in 1200 years.

Nope. Not one word. Instead:

Lead story: Jill Carroll. Message: The world is dangerous. You are powerless and blameless.

Second lead: Bird Flu. Message: The world is dangerous. You are powerless and blameless.

Third story: Big car crash on Mexican border. (Wow. Pretty desperate.) Message: The world is dangerous. And you are powerless and blameless.

And... that was it. The biggest news on this day, according to Fox.

It's hardly, um, news, that Fox is awful and biased and bad for your brain. But this was amazing, even to me.

PS: Actually, there was a crawl along the bottom throughout, which included three other stories:

1) Bush job approval low, despite increased consumer confidence. Message: Bush deserves more credit.

2) Big fires in Orange County. Message: The world is dangerous. You are powerless and blameless.

3) World record pumpkin pie. Message: Mmm. Pie.

D'oh!

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