The programme is still there to see, Frank, on the link I gave early in the thread, and it'll be there till Thursday. I don't mean there should be any obligation to see it, but I point that out just in case that "I didn't see the program" implied that you wished you had. (You didn't miss much. But often enough Question Time is pretty good.)

The impression I get, possibly unjustly, is that the US political scene is more or less mutual "diatribe for political purposes" - Michael Moore is a lot funnier then the people he's up against, and I find him very likeable, and he does an enormous amount to stop anti-Bushite feelings degenerate into anti-American prejudice, but he's basically playing the same kind of game.

There's the old saying "Bad money drives out good", and I suppose that's what's happening. Our tabloids over here are pretty advanced practitioners of this kind of stuff, and no doubt other aspects of our public life will catch up before too long.