Has Bush’s Poodle turned on his former master? Out of office and enjoying his thankless task in the Middle East, Tony Blair will sit for a portrait by a British artist whose porn infused Bush portrait was supposedly commissioned then rejected by the White House.

Perhaps it was this portrait of a kindly grandfather which caught the Bush eye:

The wannabee Wilson “Presidential Library” in Staunton Virginia is keeping Woodrow’s spirit alive with some help from the History Channel, making a film about a local segregated park. The library is presenting it as sort of making amends for the Professor’s errors and omissions. The local paper has a Wilson official referring to him as not “enlightened,” which is one way you could describe introducing segregation to Washington DC and promoting it in federal offices. Doing his part, a young Navy Secretary named Franklin Roosevelt.

The Wilsonians seem of several minds about his actions. Their web site provides a roundup of his crimes, and their defense? Nobody cared about black people!

*Wilson to a black delegation in 1914.

Mysteriously vanished wife from Reagan “starter marriage” is dead.

Well, some remembered:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296302,00.html

Even the liberal New Republic can get their Father of the New Deal facts wrong. The magazine’s architecture critic stumbled in a recent on-line salute to the fine fellow George Bush has hired to design his Presidential Library with “fantastic freedom institute” annex. Sarah Williams Goldhagen writes that”The first president to be honored with this by now de rigueur monument to posterity and the information glut of this Information Age is, of all the unlikely candidates, Herbert Hoover.”

Hoover served before FDR, but his Presidential Library came from a “You can do that?” moment after Roosevelt started his own Pharaohization in 1939.

Hoover’s didn’t open till 1962.

“When Gerald Ford keeled over, his funeral on cable TV would have made Winston Churchill blanch with embarrassment.”

BBC America’s Matt Frei, newly crowned “BBC World News America” anchor in TVNewser.

Up next: pithing up that show title.