After the NAACP passed a resolution refudiating [sic] the racist elements of the Tea Party, leading teabagger Mark Williams defended the party by showing everyone what racism really is.
And for that, he was rewarded with two appearances on CNN.
Meanwhile, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly kept her eyes on the prize.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: NRSC Chair John Cornyn (R-TX); DSCC Chair Bob Menendez (D-NJ); NRCC Chair Pete Sessions (R-TX); DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).
Face the Nation: New Mexico Gov.Bill Richardson (D); Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ); NAACP President Benjamin Jealous; Teabagger David Webb.
This Week: Vice President Joe Biden; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune), Former Bush White House Communications Director Nicole Wallace and Former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers.
Fox News Sunday: Sen. David Vitter (R-LA); House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC); Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN); Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Nina Easton (Fortune), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (NPR/FNC).
State of the Union: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD); Mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu (D); Reliable Sources: Bob Schieffer (CBS News); Jim Geraghty (National Review); David Perel (RadarOnline.com).
The Chris Matthews Show: Joe Klein (TIME); Katty Kay (BBC); Trish Regan (CNBC); Clarence Page (Chicago Tribune).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Jeffrey Gettleman (New York Times); Davidson College Professor Ken Menkhaus; Anne McElvoy (London Evening Standard); Daniel Finkelstein (The Times); Polly Tonybee (The Guardian); Martin Wolf (Financial Times).
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with counterinsurgency specialist Brigadier General John Nicholson (preview); an interview with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz (preview); and, interviews with actors and writers behind broadcasting's longest running drama, "Guiding Light" (preview).
On Comedy Central:
The Emmy Award-nominated Daily Show and Colbert Report were in reruns this week, so there are no new videos to share.
Instead, here's Jon Stewart examining the Fox News / Tea Party convergence.
And Stephen Colbert explaining how to prevent your racist critiques of the President from being perceived as such.
Elsewhere:
Teabag lady Michele Bachmann doesn't cotton to the way President Obama has been running the country.
Bachmann appeared at a right-wing conference in Colorado this past weekend, the Colorado Independent reports, and in her speech Friday night she quoted from founding father John Jay: "We are determined to live free or not at all. And we are resolved that posterity shall never reproach us with having brought slaves into the world."
Bachmann then continued, in her own words: "We will talk a little bit about what has transpired in the last 18 months and would we count what has transpired into turning our country into a nation of slaves."
On Friday she filed the paperwork required to build an underground railroad of sorts.
If she builds it, they will come. Fox News Channel's Bill Hemmer can attest to that.
"We covered those town hall meetings with greater vigor than our competition, and we were rewarded with viewers. It was better television."
Another view is that Fox seized upon the footage of angry constituents shouting at Democratic members of Congress because it undermined the president’s push for health care reform.
Hemmer begs to differ. "I don’t think it was anger toward the Obama administration," he says. "It was an honest insecurity on the part of average Americans."
And completing the circle-jerk is Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, from whom Fox News earns praise.
BRODY: I just want to understand. You're saying that you’re not willing to play this mainstream media "gotcha" game basically? Is that what you’re saying?
ANGLE: No. There’s no earnings for me there. We’re looking at how can we best benefit from the media. We get so many requests. I do sometimes seven interviews a day, so it's not like we're running from the media. It's just that we're earning with that media.
BRODY: When you're on Fox News or talking to more conservative outlets but maybe not going on "Meet the Press" or a "This Week", those type of news shows, then the perception and the narrative starts to be like you are avoiding those mainstream media outlets.
ANGLE: Well, in that audience will they let me say I need $25 dollars from a million people go to Sharron Angle.com send money? Will they let me say that? Will I get a bump on my website and you can watch whenever I go on to a show like that we get an immediate bump. You can see the little spinners. People say 'Oh, I heard that. I am going and I'm going to help Sharron out because they realize this is a national effort and that I need people from all around the nation. They may not be able to vote for me but they can certainly help.
Freedom isn't free.
- Trix