Just a quickie: I noticed yesterday that WOR in New York, considered Michael Savage's flagship station in the east, bumped the Nation's Third Most Popular Liar for ... Rutgers football.

And to top it off, the station substituted Michael Smerconish, who usually isn't on until after Savage, for the blowhard. The conservative commentator was on-site at Rutgers stadium in Piscataway, NJ, doing a pre-game hour.

I thought this was interesting because in the past, WOR has at least presented the first hour or so of Savage, then switched to Rutgers. But this time, the station decided to let another political commentator talk about college football instead.

Remember, WOR some time ago cut the last hour of Savage's program. The station now presents Savage from 6-8 p.m., followed by Smerconish. I guess that's because WOR grew tired of paying for an hour of canned programming.

I'm waiting for the day Savage is bumped for Lady Knights basketball. That will be a hoot.

Keep the faith.

The country's Number 3 Right-Wing radio blowhard has a link on his Web site pointing to a story on Foxnews.com concerning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Moscow.

Clinton and her Russian counterparts discussed a successor treaty to the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires in December.

According to the Fox News report, the two sides "tentatively" agreed to a weapons inspection program that would allow Russian inspectors to "visit nuclear sites in America to count missiles and warheads."

This, Fox News breathlessly reports, "would constitute the most intrusive weapons inspection program the U.S. has ever accepted."

Never one to let the thinnest of connections go unconnected, Savage on his radio program this evening declared that the agreement is a done deal, and that it would allow Russians into every US missile facility. he compared it to a Las Vegas blackjack dealer showing his cards to the players before they placed their bets. I'm still trying to figure that one out.

But my point is, Savage once again apparently did not read the story to which his Web site points. The agreement is tentative, the terms have not been confirmed, and there is no mention that the agreement includes every missile location in the country.

And as far as Fox News' assertion about this being the "most intrusive" weapons inspection program ever; says who? Is this Fox News' opinion, or did it come from someone who actually knows what they are talking about?

We don't know because Fox doesn't tell us (big surprise) and Savage doesn't bother to do any primary research (bigger surprise).

The world's laziest Ph.D. strikes again.