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What "Fair and Balanced" Gets You

Anytime you get a die-hard advocate of intelligent design on camera, you're bound to hear something that makes your brain so deeply upset that it practically cries out for a bubble bath and a long nap. But the length and breadth and depth of the weirdness could not be guessed at until author Michael Behe appeared on the Hannity and Colmes show for a "special report" on ID last week. Late in the interview, America heard this startling exchange:

COLMES: Who's the designer?

BEHE: Well, as I've said since 1996 when I published "Darwin's Black Box," I'm a Catholic. I think a good candidate for the designer is God. But that is not straight — that's not a conclusion that you come from ,from the structure of the bacterial flagellum.

COLMES: What would be the other options if it's not God?

BEHE: Well, you know, other things that would strike us as, you know, as pretty exotic, you know. Space aliens or time travelers or something strange.

Okay, memo to Alan Colmes: we know that you're a sad, stretchy-faced clown with little to no cojones, but when someone comes into your studio looking for scientific recognition of little green men and Back To The Future Theory, you have them right where you want them, journalistically speaking. There are countless smart-ass high-school seniors taking AP Biology who, knowing they can sidetrack a discussion for a solid week discussing the theories of Fox Mulder, won't make that mistake.— DCEIVER

Evolution of a Debate [Hannity and Colmes]

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Gossip Roundup: No Partying for Wolf Blitzer

• Under the Dome: Bob Livingston: "I raised hell with [Gov. Blanco] for not declaring martial law. I told her last [Wednesday] night I was going on 'Hannity & Colmes' and criticize her for not doing that, and 20 minutes later, she did.". . . Rolling Stone shadowed Bernie Sanders for upcoming article. . . National Press Club will auction nude painting. . . Albert Eisele retires about 40 years in journalism. [The Hill]
• Lloyd Grove's Lowdown: Bernstein, in latest issue of Vanity Fair, recounts tension with Woodward and Downie over Felt revelation; shows Woodward as more interested in "commerce and hype than journalism.". . . Judi Giuliani is mum on her husband's '08 intentions. [NYDN]
• Inside the Beltway: "VIP party" for CNN's "The Situation Room" canceled due to Katrina. [WT]

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