In one of the greatest twists of irony in the history of the world, terrorist fist jabber/Polanskiite Barack Obama was named the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on the same day he launched a preemptive attack on the Moon.
It was also the same day that John Lennon would've turned 69 years old, had J.D. Salinger not written his liberal manifesto, The Catcher in the Rye.
Which brings us to Ronald Reagan... who should've won the Peace Prize.
NEVAR FORGET 9/12.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.); Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers (Ret.); Roundtable: Ron Brownstein (National Journal), Paul Gigot (The Wall Street Journal), Katty Kay (BBC) and Bob Woodward (The Washington Post).
Face the Nation: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); David Ignatius (The Washington Post); Michael O'Hanlon (Brookings Institution).
This Week: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA); Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA); Gen. Jack Keane (Ret.); Roundtable: Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post), Former Bush Communications Director Nicole Wallace, Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile and George Will (The Washington Post).
Fox News Sunday: Chairman/CEO of Wynn Resorts Steve Wynn; Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D); Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R); Mark Zandi (Economy.com); Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board Deborah Hersman; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Nina Easton (Fortune Magazine), Cheney Propagandist Liz Cheney and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett; Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile; Reliable Sources: David Zurawik (The Baltimore Sun); DSharon Waxman (TheWrap.com); Steve Friedman (CBS News); White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.
The Chris Matthews Show: Clarence Page (The Chicago Tribune); Gloria Borger (CNN); Andrea Mitchell (NBC News); David Ignatius (The Washington Post).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Richard Haas (The Council on Foreign Relations); Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani; Chairman of De Beers Nicky Oppenheimer.
Afternoon delight:
Amanpour: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: a report from the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, where U.S. Marine Golf Company is stationed (preview); a report on a new study which shows that professional athletes who suffered many blows to the head became brain damaged (preview); and, a look at the newest extreme sport in which people don wing suits, jump off mountain tops and glide at speeds of 140 miles per hour (preview).
On Comedy Central...
Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore gave white people a lesson in playing the race card.
The Daily Show
Monday: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Tuesday: Hero Pilot/Author Chesley Sullenberger ("Highest Duty")
Wednesday: Author Barbara Ehrenreich ("Bright-Sided")
Thursday: TBA
And Stephen Colbert empathized with Glenn Beck.
The Colbert Report
Monday: CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Tuesday: Author Sylvia Earle ("The World is Blue")
Wednesday: Rapper/Producer/Composer The RZA
Thursday: Reporter Jerry Mitchell (The Clarion-Jackson Ledger)
Meanwhile...
Bill O'Reilly – who is not quite as conspiracy-minded as Glenn Beck – has a theory as to why Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has become a leading target of the left.
O’REILLY: Do you think — and this is an off-the-wall question. And I’m telling the audience that it’s just something that’s occurred to me. Both you and Sarah Palin are good-looking women. I mean, you’re attractive, young — relatively young — women who other women can identify with. You’re a mom, a wife. You had a private-sector job.
I think that’s it. I think that the success of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann drive the far left crazy because you don’t fit — they don’t like what you believe in, but you can attract others to listen to you. I think that’s what’s going on.
Surely he's right. I mean, it couldn't possibly be this. Or this. Or any of the myriad things documented here.
Also battling the far-left hate machine is Republican candidate for CT-Sen Peter Schiff, who sees himself as a modern day Captain America.
"I'm interrupting my career. It's not like I want my new career in politics," said Schiff. "But I'm willing to interrupt it the same way that somebody interrupted their career and joined World War II and went off to fight the Nazis. I don't think that I'm that heroic, and I don't think I'm risking as much as a soldier. But it's the same principle."
You know who else likes to make bad historical analogies?
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).
GOHMERT: If you’re oriented toward animals, bestiality, then, you know, that’s not something that can be used, held against you or any bias be held against you for that. Which means you’d have to strike any laws against bestiality, if you’re oriented toward corpses, toward children, you know, there are all kinds of perversions, [...] pedophiles or necrophiliacs or what most would say is perverse sexual orientations but the trouble is, we made amendments to eliminate pedophiles from being included in the definition. [...] But people have always been willing to give up their liberties, their freedoms in order to gain economic stability. It happened in 1920 and 1930’s. Germany gave up their liberties to gain economic stability and they got a little guy with a mustache, who was the ultimate hate monger. And this is scary stuff we’re doing here when we take away what has traditionally been an important aspect of moral teaching in America.
Peace out.
- Trix