The phony U.S. civil war is already here, being fought on cable news

Fox News host Sean Hannity speaks during a taping of his show, 'Hannity,' in New York on Aug.

As evidence: CBS drew an average 41.5 million viewers for the 49ers-Cowboys National Football League playoff game on Sunday.

So, while Americans unite to worship at the altar of the NFL, the to-date entirely bogus civil war is being fought on cable news.

Lara Logan, once a respected reporter at CBS News and a 60 Minutes host, has been doing punditry on Fox News Primetime for a while and in late November had a few things to say, comparing Anthony Fauci with Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments on Jewish prisoners.

Over on Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, Glenn Beck, who used to be a Fox star before building a solo media empire, came on to talk about his new book.

Meanwhile, Sean Hannity had the rare experience of being laughed at on Fox News.

The host claimed that Biden, “inherited energy independence, and we were a net exporter of energy, and now he’s begging OPEC.” Goolsbee, highly amused, said, “He inherited an economic downturn bordering on catastrophe.” The debate went on as Hannity got more frantic and the professor laughed.

On a good night, Fox News might have around three million viewers for Tucker Carlson and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, on the other end of the political spectrum might have 1.7 million viewers.

The rest is hubbub and the so-called civil war is just noisy cable news, long under way already