It's 9:13 PM. If you have a chance, flip on Fox News at least for a moment. It's Gen. Petraeus's (and Crocker's) one hour "exclusive" with Brit Hume on Fox. The chyron actually reads "A Briefing for America." And that's really pretty much what it is. It's another briefing. It's not an interview. It's a continuation of today's bamboozlement but in prime time on Fox with the expected soft-ball questions and credulous analysis.

Late Update: The "exclusive" is also helpfully interspersed with commercials from the White House-organized pro-Iraq War astroturf group Freedom's Watch.

Later Update: As around 9:45, Hume is walking Petraeus toward explaining how the Iraq War is really a "war against al Qaeda." Petraeus is playing along.

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