This was the week that President Barack Hussein Obama's secret Muslim past finally caught up with him. But with all of the Muslimy things he's done, the only real surprise was that it took as long as it did.
I mean, there were only so many Sundays that he could reasonably expect to hide his true faith on the golf course.
When you actually stop and think about it, Obama has nobody to blame but himself for the growing misperceptions about him. The fault certainly doesn't lie with the people feeding those misperceptions.
In fact, to say that it does would be downright un-American.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Chairman of FreedomWorks/Former Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX); Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D); Roundtable: Former Rep. Rick Lazio (R-NY), Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic), Paul Gigot (Wall Street Journal) and Katty Kay (BBC).
Face the Nation: Commander of US Forces in Iraq Gen. Ray Odierno; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Author Greg Mortensen ("Stones into Schools").
This Week with Christiane Amanpour: Afghan President Hamid Karzai; Wife of Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf Daisy Khan; Head of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Rabbi Joy Levitt; Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Judy Woodruff (PBS), Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Al Hunt (Bloomberg).
Fox News Sunday: Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D); Roundtable: Stephen Hayes (Weekly Standard), Nina Easton (Fortune magazine), Former Press Secretary for Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign Kevin Madden and Juan Williams (NPR/FNC).
State of the Union: Commander of US Forces in Iraq Gen. Ray Odierno; Fromer Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers (Ret.); Former US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad; Former Commander of US Central Command Adm. William Fallon (Ret.); Reliable Sources: Michael Martin (NPR); Ramesh Ponnuru (National Review); Todd Purdum (Vanity Fair).
The Chris Matthews Show: Gloria Borger (CNN); Dan Rather (HDNet); John Heilemann (New York magazine); Michele Norris (NPR).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Peter Beinart (Daily Beast); Brett Stephens (Wall Street Journal); Pakistani Politician Imran Ali; Harvard University Professor Niall Ferguson; Nina Hachigan (Center for American Progress); Claremont McKenna College Professor Minxin Pei; Author Zachary Karabell.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with one of the survivors of the Deepwater Horizon explosion (preview); an interview with Mikhail Prokhorov, one of the richest men in Russia, and the newest owner of the N.J. Nets basketball team (preview); and, a look back at some of the most controversial people 60 Minutes correspondents have met over the years (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart measured Fox News Channel's proximity to terrorism.
The Daily Show
Monday: Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D)
Tuesday: NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams
Wednesday: Actress Drew Barrymore ("Going the Distance")
Thursday: Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg
And Stephen Colbert celebrated the consummation of Fox News' marriage to the Republican party.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Author Leslie Kean ("UFOs")
Tuesday: Author Jeffrey Goldberg ("The Point of No Return")
Wednesday: Author Heidi Cullen ("The Weather of the Future")
Thursday: NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel
Meanwhile:
Conservative blogger Pam Geller, one of the leading opponents of the "Ground Zero Mosque" – which is neither a mosque nor located at Ground Zero – defended her position in an interview with TPM.
Geller several times said it was "insulting" to Americans who feel passionately about the issue to say she had anything to do with pushing it, even though she organized the first protest and has been one of the most prominent opponents on television. "It's elitist that people are crediting me with the opposition, as if without me people would be down with it," Geller said. "I may give voice to the voiceless but there is genuine grief, genuine outrage out there."
She added, "You're not going to make this about me."
For the record, Geller is not a bigot/racist. In fact, some of her best sheets are muslin.
In related news:
Feminist crusader Sarah Palin, whose appeal has become increasingly selective, defended Dr. Laura Schlessigner's God-given right to use the n-word on commercial radio broadcasts, the free market be damned.
• Dr.Laura:don't retreat...reload! (Steps aside bc her 1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist thx 2activists trying 2silence"isn't American,not fair")
• Dr.Laura=even more powerful & effective w/out the shackles, so watch out Constitutional obstructionists. And b thankful 4 her voice,America!
And in other news of tolerance, we learn that Ann Coulter has been disinvited from a World Net Daily conference after agreeing to speak at an event for gay Republicans.
Asked by Farah why she was speaking to GOProud, Coulter said: "They hired me to give a speech, so I’m giving a speech. I do it all the time."
Farah then asked: "Do you not understand you are legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military – not to mention the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle?"
Coulter responded: "That's silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don’t endorse their views. I’ve spoken to Democratic groups and liberal Republican groups that loooove abortion. The main thing I do is speak on college campuses, which is about the equivalent of speaking at an al-Qaida conference. I'm sure I agree with GOProud more than I do with at least half of my college audiences. But in any event, giving a speech is not an endorsement of every position held by the people I'm speaking to. I was going to speak for you guys, I think you're nuts on the birther thing (though I like you otherwise!)."
To each his/her own.
- Trix