Globe and Mail TV writer John Doyle wrote about the Faux News Channel’s attempts to get onto Canadian cable systems. Doyle said his countrypeople should get the chance to see the channel so they could laugh at it.

Bill O’Reilly, on said channel, urged his viewers to send insulting emails to Doyle, as if Doyle would be impressed and won over by people calling him dumb names.

Doyle’s follow-up article sez: “The people who support Fox News must be the most uncivil and foul-mouthed creatures on the planet. This is an informed opinion. They’d give English soccer hooligans a run for their money.”

…to find non-NYC American society odd at best, dangerous at worst.

Case in point #1: A Guardian essay by George Monbiot describing a Texas county Republican convention as the key to understanding the horrors of Bushism: “Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power.”

Case in point #2: A piece in The Independent by Andrew Buncombe about the small Bible college in Virginia that’s sent more than its share of grads into jobs with Republican politicians.

The media conglomerates have begun, timidly, to fight back against the Bush FCC and its neo-censorship agenda.

…claims the US occupation force views Iraqi civilians as “untermenschen, the Nazi expression for ‘subhumans.'”

…chopping away at our (and broadcasters’) rights? Sign the Stop FCC petition.

HOW MANY “Bushisms” from this list do you remember, and can you define the specific grammatical errors in each?

…comes from none other than Waterburglar John Dean himself, alleging that the current administration’s putting “a cancer on the Presidency.”

TOM RUNNACLES offers up a fine li’l tribute to Alistair Cooke. Some email respondents to him then go and spoil the proceedings by noting that Cooke’s BBC Radio essays had become steadily more reactionary over the past two decades. (Cooke, like Sinatra, had apparently fallen in love with the Reagan crowd as saviors of a more genteel past.)

PAUL KRUGMAN asks the rhetorical questions of how low the Bush sleaze machine will go to hold onto power. Yet even Krugman dares not ponder the worst-case-scenario answers.

His allegations have a strong beat. You can dance to them. I’d give him a 92.

…with your very own “George W. Bush Scorecard of Evil.”

Here’s some more detailed refutation of the US right-wing smear campaign against the new Spanish government. No, Fox News, Limbaugh, WSJ, et al., Francisco Franco is still dead.

No, no, no! The defeat of an unpopular (except among US conservatives) Spanish government is NOT “a victory for terrorists.” It’s a victory for those who’ve got a better idea how to deal with terrorists.

…disseminating faked pro-Bush TV news reports under the guise of “electronic press releases.” Why didn’t they just let Fox do it like they always do?

OUR PAL TOM FRANK lucidly ponders the hypocrisies of “anti-elitist” conservatives proclaiming their allegiance to We The People, then, once elected, turning everything they can over to the zillionaires.