Yesterday in the Daily News "Rush & Molloy" included a small item reporting that Cadillac, which is the exclusive provider of cars for the Academy Awards this year, offering attendees the choice of a standard sedans or a monster truck, is having an unexpected run on their would-be tank, the Escalade, "supposedly because rolling up in limos looks tackier."

Huh? If they're trying to be sensitive, although I don't know why we should really think they are, someone should tell the stars that the suffering people of Iraq know that there's nothing tackier than Americans, especially packs of Americans, in gas-guzzling SUVs trying to imitate the Hummers of Yankee, oil-field-conquering invaders.