Today’s the day and Fox have the big guns out: Megyn Kelly, Cavuto, Greta and O’Reilly are all on duty. Watch it from 5pm onwards our time.

If we’re lucky CNN International may ditch Good Evening Hong Kong for the US feed.

Today’s the day and Fox have the big guns out: Megyn Kelly, Cavuto, Greta and O’Reilly are all on duty. Watch it from 5pm onwards our time.

If we’re lucky CNN International may ditch Good Evening Hong Kong for the US feed.

On Tuesday night’s Hardball, the scales finally fell from Chris Matthews’ eyes about the bogus enthusiasm on the left for the war in Afghanistan.

Matthews: ‘I believe that what Barack Obama, who I support generally, did in this campaign… was back into this policy. I think he wanted to say he was for some aggressive action against the enemy because he wasn’t for the Iraq war.’

Bang on, Chris. You’ve just admitted your hero committed himself to a war he didn’t believe in just to make himself look tough. What are you going to do about it?

Here’s the video. Matthews’ guilty confession comes right at the end.

Is anyone surprised by the lack of appetite for the Afghan war shown in the latest ABC-WaPo poll?

As we’ve said before, Obama and his party have, all along, been faking enthusiasm for Afghanistan to give themselves political cover for opposing Bush on Iraq.

Now they’re stuck with it.

What’s more, some commentators are starting to notice the silence of the anti-war movement. As Cindy Sheehan says, it should really be renamed the anti-Republican War movement.

And she has an interesting story to tell regarding press coverage of her activities since January 20.

I’ve been protesting every time I can, and it’s not covered.  But the one time I did get a lot of coverage was when I protested in front of George Bush’s house in Dallas in June.

Robert Fisk in the Independent excoriates Gordon Brown for his Catch-22 style justification for staying in Afghanistan (’We can’t pull out having taken so many casualties, so we’ll stay in and take more casualties, each of which will then be another reason why we can’t pull out’).

Fisk also takes a swipe at George W Bush in the process.

But one man is strangely absent from Fisk’s gallery of shame: the man who spent his presidential campaign cheerleading for the Afghan war and whose first act as commander in chief was to throw another 20,000 troops into the fray.

Don’t mention the war? Don’t mention Obama.

For American viewers, that is (and naughty file sharers).

The LA Times has a preview of what’s happening at the start of the third series, with a new arrival due in the Draper household.

For American viewers, that is (and naughty file sharers).

The LA Times has a preview of what’s happening at the start of the third series, with a new arrival due in the Draper household.

Finally the New York Times condescends to cover the story everyone’s been talking about.

At least it does clear up one thing: the question wasn’t mistranslated, the questioner misspoke and said Mr Clinton when he meant to say Mr Obama.

Jay Leno’s new hour-long 10pm show launches on September 14. No word yet on any UK broadcaster, or CNBC, taking it.

Here’s thr.com’s report on the NBC press conference.

Time magazine’s account of the tensions inside the White House over the Scooter Libby pardon that never was is a must-read.

The online version, though, lets itself down badly by dropping in stupidly provocative cross-references throughout the text. So we get links to “See America’s worst Vice Presidents”, “See Bush’s economic mistakes” and my personal favourite “See pictures of polarizing politicians on Life.com”.

UPDATE Brent Baker at Newsbusters agrees about the links.