It is understandable why Fox News has become so preoccupied with showcasing O.J. Simpson.  The controversy-shrouded former running back's latest brushes with the law and impending trial offer a perfect opportunity.

Simpson's current legal difficulties afford an ideal distraction.  The Republican Party's neoconservative television propaganda arm can use Simpson to once more mesmerize its faithful by distancing them from the discomforting realities of the disasters confronting the neoconservative regime that Fox stridently touts.

Fox hopes that the masses are not paying attention to the U.S. Today story running in its September 24 edition.  

Matt Krantz offers a different picture from the rosy scenario George W. Bush depicted the other day when he told Americans to relax, that he received a B in the economics course he took at Harvard, and that the mortgage situation that economists are so concerned about will not affect the overall U.S. economic picture.