It's only slightly surprising to see the European media still addled by the HATE BUSH syndrome. Could it be they haven't noticed that the election is over? Whatever it is, they're after the windmills again -- I just got up and clicked on Euronews, which is usually a decent way to get lots of stories an ugly American would otherwise never see. What they just showed was a horribly (predictably?) deceptive version of the Terri Schiavo situation here in the states. According to the Euro-pansies, Terri is brain-dead -- something even her "killer-her-now" husband hasn't claimed. All the usual suspects are rounded up: Christan conservatives, a hasty Congress, and Bush-hating opinion pollsters.

You'd think people would be a little more careful about the facts in a story about intentionally starving a woman to death.

Remember this next time you hear partisans like Maureen Dowd wail that the people of Europe disdain American social/political values: those people read comic books as news -- it's no wonder they expect us to be clowns.