We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Obama leave them kids alone.
Hey! Obama! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Roundtable: Former Mayor of NYC Rudy Giuliani (9/11), Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN), Tom Brokaw (NBC News) and Tom Friedman (The New York Times).
Face the Nation: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
This Week: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS); Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA); Roundtable: Matthew Dowd (ABC News), Katrina vanden Huevel (The Nation), David Sanger (The New York Times) and George Will (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN); Former DNC Chair/Gov. Howard Dean; Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA); President & CEO of the Center for American Progress John Podesta; White House Photographer Pete Souza; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR), Stephen Hayes (The Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE); Director of the Center for Disease Control Thomas Frieden; Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN); Republican Strategist Ed Rollins; Democratic Strategist Joe Trippi; Reliable Sources: David Zurawik (The Baltimore Sun); Rome Hartman (BBC); Tina Brown (The Daily Beast); Lara Logan (CBS News).
The Chris Matthews Show: Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post); Katty Kay BBC); Gloria Borger (CNN); Michael Duffy (TIME).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer (D); The Dalia Lama.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the the increase in number and intensity of forest fires in the American West resulting from global warming; footage of up-close combat from a forward operating base near Pakistan; and, a report on a mentally ill musician discovered living on the streets by a L.A. Times columnist, which became the focus of a book and movie.
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report were still in reruns this week, so once again there are no new clips to share.
Instead, here's Jon Stewart reporting on President Bush's 2007 veto of SCHIP.
And Stephen Colbert explaining to children what SCHIP is, and why Bush wouldn't let them have it.
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will return with new episodes on Monday, September 14. |
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As many of you know, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is regularly featured in Sunday Talk — because of all the crazy shit she says, such as:
"This [health care reform] cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass. Right now, we are looking at reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom. And we may never be able to restore it if we don’t man up and take this one on."
But to hear her tell it, there's another – much more sinister – reason for the repeated attacks on her, and other leading ladies of the right:
"Also with women politicians, they want to make sure no women, no woman becomes president before a Democrat woman, and so they’re doing everything they can to, I think, sabotage women like Sarah Palin, perhaps women like myself, or similarly situated women, to make sure that we don’t have a prominent national voice. But the thing is, the people in our country, they don’t care who the voice is, they just want someone, they want to know that someone is speaking out for them against what will certainly bring about the destruction of our great country if we continue to go down the Obama path."
The truth, however, is that sometimes teh womenz sabotage themselves — like when CNBC's "Money Honey" Maria Bartiromo challenged Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) to marry Medicare if he loves it so much.
Rep. Weiner reminded her that there already is government-managed health care in the United States -- namely, Medicare, the system created for Americans 65 years and older -- and that patients with Medicare report very high satisfaction rates.
Bartiromo's response to this argument was a true head-scratcher. In a mocking tone, she pressed the congressman: "How come you don't use it [Medicare]? You don't have it. How come you don't have it?"
Rep. Weiner, who turns 45 this week, tried to walk Bartiromo through it. "Because I'm not 65." But she was insistent. "Yeah... c'mon!" she exclaimed, laughing incredulously.
I have become comfortably numb.
- Trix
