At FOX NEWS, English Deaths Advantageous

Or, Always Look on the Bright Side (as sung by Monty Python)

When you're the propaganda arm of the Bush administration, even in despair you can find joy. Take the London Bombings.

At last report, with British authorities still plumbing the grisly depths of the bombed out London Tube, the toll of woe stands at more the 50 dead and 700 injured. Still more bodies are believed to be undiscovered in the tunnels beneath London, and of those 700 injured, many will never be the same again, maimed, blinded, rendered deaf and perhaps even rendered mad by the homicidal madness of Islamic terrorists. But that doesn't mean it has to be all bad. You just have to look on the brightside. Maybe, in the parlance of that great new band The Killers, you just have to be Mr. Brightside.

Enter Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on the day of the blasts during the Fox&Friends telecast. Never mind the dead and the aggrieved, this boy's found good in the whole thing:

KILMEADE: And he [British Prime Minister Tony Blair] made the statement, clearly shaken, but clearly determined. This is his second address in the last hour. First to the people of London, and now at the G8 summit, where their topic. Number 1 --believe it or not-- was global warming, the second was African aid. And that was the first time since 9-11 when they should know, and they do know now, that terrorism should be Number 1. But it's important for them all to be together. I think that works to our advantage, in the Western world's advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened[italics mine].

Even in times of war, these guys are all about the metrics of power and politics. But, perhaps, akin to the maturity factor of seeing a disfigured person and not blurting out "Oh, what a freak," perhaps Mr. Kilmeade ought not to have called the dead and damaged in Britain advantageous. Of course, when you live in the All-Spin Zone that is Fox News and your grasp on reality is already so tenuous, perhaps it makes all the sense in the world to compute political calculus in the face of grave human loss.

Brian Kilmeade IS Mr. Brightside.