THROWING EVERYTHING AGAINST THE WALL, EVEN FROM THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, IN THE DESPERATE HOPE THAT SOMETHING WILL STICK

Curiously, Rupert Murdoch's Australian site news.com.au chose to put this online three weeks before the film in question will open in Australia, but just at the exact moment when Americans were about to go to the polls:

US 'suburbs more violent than Iraq'

MORE fighting goes on in parts of suburban US than Iraq, according to Australian filmmaker George Gittoes who has just finished a documentary set in a Miami "war zone".

Gittoes' latest feature, Rampage, contrasts life for a family living in the blue-collar community of Brown Sub, Miami, with ongoing fighting in Iraq.

"It is much worse in Miami than it is in Baghdad," Gittoes said in Sydney today....

"Even left-wing Americans ... don't want to recognise the mess they've got in their own backyard," he said....

Reality:

* Murders in Miami in a two-year period (2004-2005), according to the FBI: 123.

* Conservative count of Iraqi civilians killed in the first two years of the war, made by Iraq Body Count: 24,865.

*Current UN estimate of civilian killings in Iraq: more than 100 per day.

The right-wing press really thinks its readers -- i.e., right-wing voters -- are mind-bogglingly ignorant.