Tuesday night was a great night for women of all stripes and colors.
Well, not really for women of all stripes.
Or women of all colors.
And now that I think about it, not really for women in general.
In any case, it was a great night for the youth of America.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod; Roundtable: CA-Sen Nominee Carly Fiorina (R), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Roger Simon (Politico) and Chuck Todd (NBC News).
Face the Nation: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I); Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R); Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R); US Coast Guard National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen.
This Week: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD); House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH); Microsoft Chairman/Co-Founder Bill Gates; Roundtable: Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile, Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA).
Fox News Sunday: CA-Sen Nominee Carly Fiorina (R); US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice; Former First Daughter Barbara Bush; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Mara Liasson (NPR/FNC), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (NPR/FNC).
State of the Union: Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R); Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN); House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC); Greg Ip (The Economist); Former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin; Reliable Sources: Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic); Dana Milbank (Washington Post); Lynn Sweet (Chicago Sun-Times); David Nesenoff (RabbiLive.com).
The Chris Matthews Show: Savanna Guthrie (NBC News); john Heilemann (New York magazine); Rick Stengel (TIME); Helene Cooper(New York Times).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon; Maziar Bahari (Newsweek); Afshin Molavi (New America Foundation).
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the potential for hackers to get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure in order to create havoc (preview); and, an underwater exploration with Robert Bismarck — the man who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck and the PT 109 (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart hazed the White House press corps.
The Daily Show
Monday: Actress Betty White ("Hot in Cleveland")
Tuesday: Author James Tabor ("Blind Descent")
Wednesday: Actor Louis C.K. ("Louie")
Thursday: Politician/Author Fred Thompson ("Teaching the Pig to Dance")
And Stephen Colbert showed President Obama how to appear angry.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Author Stephen Prothero ("God Is Not One")
Tuesday: President of the Blue Ocean Insitutute Dr. Carl Safina
Wednesday: Band DEVO ("Something for Everybody")
Thursday: Author David Mamet ("Theatre")
The boobish former half-term Governor of Alaska doesn't need any lessons in showing anger.
On Saturday, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin weighed in on the controversy on Twitter, implying that the the rest of the political press condoned Thomas comments while real Americans like Palin condemned them:
Helen Thomas press pals condone racist rant? Heaven forbid "esteemed" press corps represent society's enlightened elite; Rest of us choose truth
But a funny thing happened on the way to Palin’s knee jerk criticism of the "lamestream media." They didn’t do what she claimed they did or would do. In fact, as Patrick Gavin’s blogging at Politico makes clear, the press have almost uniformly denounced Thomas' comments.
She just needs lessons in telling the truth.
Also finding herself at odds with the facts was Rep. Michele Bachmann.
From safe within the confines of a friendly right-wing radio host's studio, Rep. Michele Bachmann has asserted that Barack Obama is the worst American president ever.
Worse than Jimmy Carter, and not even half-way through his first term. [...]
Has the floor dropped out from underneath Obama? Probably, inside the GOP base -- if it had anywhere to go but down anyway. But for the rest of the country? We checked in with the Gallup organization's handy-dandy compare-a-president tool, to see where the job approval ratings stood for Carter and Obama at this stage in their respective White House tenures, and then we threw in George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan for good measure.
Results:
• Obama: 50 percent
• Bush (waving The Decider flag in the Iraq war): 76 percent
• Carter: 41 percent
• Reagan: 45 percent
The above notwithstanding, facts aren't the biggest threat facing Real Americans. That distinction falls to
fluoridation.
Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle earlier in her career spoke out strongly against fluoride, the substance known alternately for improving dental health and as a Communist plot to undermine Western democracy.
Angle, the tea party favorite who is taking on Sen. Harry Reid, tends to be skeptical of government programs, and her opposition to fluoridation of municipal water supplies back in the late 1990s is no exception.
YA RLY.
- Trix