I’ve got so used to my lefty friends not being able to speak plain English without their perversions of it, that I’ll call Fox News “Faux News” just to get it over with.

It’s now 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific, and the results are rolling in on Election Day 2009.

Republicans have already enjoyed a landslide for the top 3 offices in Virginia, a 2008 “swing state.”

Faux News has their anchor Shepard Smith up front, followed by Bret Baier, both of whom anchor straight news shows, not opinion shows like O’Reilly’s, Hannity’s or Beck’s.

MSNBC is running opinionator Keith Olbermann’s Countdown, with highly partisan Lawrence O’Donnell reading the returns. At least MSNBC has abandoned the pretense that Olbermann can serve as an even-handed anchor—as they pretended until halfway through the 2008 Democratic convention, when even MSNBC execs couldn’t keep a straight face about it anymore.

FLASH—As I write this, Faux News has just projected Republican Chris Christie defeating Democrat Jon Corzine for New Jersey governor.

A flick back over to MSNBC had Lawrence O’Donnell finishing an interview with Howard Fineman and promising Keith will return.

After returning from commercial, Olbermann has just begun his promised attack on Joe Lieberman over the health care bill. No election coverage forthcoming. In the lower corner, I see a check mark next to Christie’s name over Corzine. Oh.

The White House has declared that Fox News isn’t news, but recently the President met with Rachel Maddow, Eugene Robinson, E.J. Dionne, Ron Brownstein, John Dickerson, Frank Rich, Jerry Seib, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Gloria Borger, and Gwen Ifill.

Oh, and Keith Olbermann. Frequent MSNBC viewers will recognize most of those names as resident or visiting experts.

Meanwhile, those of us interested in election news will have to thumb the remote back on Fox. Or that other cable news network that few watch anymore.

Late add: It’s 10:42 EST as I finish this, and Olbermann is talking about baseball. [Praising the Yankees, natch.] Back over at the Fox News Channel, O’Reilly, Hannity and Back are nowhere in sight. FNC is, however, analyzing the election returns, you know, like they were news or something.

Last add: Democrat ex-Gov. Jon Corzine is now making his concession speech on FNC. Olbermann and MSNBC are still doing baseball…