President Obama made his third visit to the Gulf coast on Friday, and finally got angry.
But was he angry enough to satisfy America's need for an Angry Daddy?
Who really cares.
So long as he smashes shit.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Preempted by coverage of the French Open.
Face the Nation: US Coast Guard National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen; Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL); Roundtable: Sharyl Attkisson (CBS News), Dan Balz (Washington Post) and Jan Crawford (CBS News).
This Week: US Coast Guard National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen; Sen. John Kerry (DMA); Sen. Jon Cornyn (R-TX); Roundtable: George Will (Washington Post), Markos Moulitsas (Daily Kos), Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post) and Psychopath Liz Cheney.
Fox News Sunday: US Coast Guard National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R); Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR/FNC), Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and Juan Williams (NPR/FNC).
State of the Union: Arkanasas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter (D); Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D); Jackie Calmes (New York Times); Doyle McManus (Los Angeles Times); Reliable Sources: David Corn (Mother Jones); Matt Lewis (PoliticsDaily.com); Julie Mason (Washington Examiner); Chuck Hughes and David Rocco (The Cooking Channel).
The Chris Matthews Show: Howard Fineman (Newsweek); Michele Norris (NPR); Andrea Mitchell (NBC News); Bill Plante (CBS News).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: TBA.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: the first television interview with "Mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier (preview); the first television interview with former FBI and CIA terrorism fighter Nada Prouty, who was herself accused of aiding terrorism (preview); and, Anderson Cooper diving unprotected with great white shark (preview).
On Comedy Central:
Jon Stewart showed Glenn Beck to be the liar he is (again).
The Daily Show
Monday: Actor John C. Reilly ("Cyrus")
Tuesday: Author Christopher Hitchens ("Hitch-22")
Wednesday: Author Spencer Wells ("Pandora's Seed")
Thursday: Minnesota Gov. tim Pawlenty (R)
And Stephen Colbert looked at the pros and cons of nuking the oil spill.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Democratic Strategist James Carville and Author Jonathan Alter ("The Promise")
Tuesday: Author Mark Frauenfelder ("Made by Hand")
Wednesday: Former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA)
Thursday: Former NASA Astronaut Alan Bean
When you really think about it, nuking an oil spill is no different than getting your teeth x-rayed.
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Director Trudy Fisher said samples of what was apparently the same oil slick, taken when it was farther south of the barrier islands, were "nontoxic." Fisher said water and weather had helped all the volatile chemicals in the oil evaporate.
Barbour described the oil as "weathered, emulsified, caramel-colored mousse, like the food mousse." "Once it gets to this stage, it’s not poisonous," Barbour said. "But if a small animal got coated enough with it, it could smother it. But if you got enough toothpaste on you, you couldn’t breathe." Barbour said he spoke with a member of President Barack Obama’s staff on Air Force One while he was on the island, after telling the administration in an early-morning conference call that oil had come ashore in Mississippi.
4 out of 5 dentists would no doubt agree.
While some, like Barbour, are focused on downplaying the devastation, Sarah Palin has her sights set on those most responsible.
Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.
Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives.
You know who else faced tragedy at the hands of radicals?
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
"The Nazi comments... they are awful. Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that... and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced."
Or not.
There are many shades of truth.
- Trix