On Morning Joe, Chuck Todd defends the Obama admin's letter to Scottish authorities on the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
On The Ed Show, Stephanie Miller fantasizes about Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Geraldo Rivera being beaten with baseball bats by drunken Yankee fans.
Criticizing Sharon Angle this morning, MSNBC's DC bureau chief Mark Whitaker sniffed that people like her "are running to be part of a government they don't believe in."
WaPo's Jonathan Capehart offers a strained theory of how the White House wasn't involved in the Sherrod firing which largely crumbles when Willie Geist asks an obvious question.
Ed Schultz calls Andrew Breitbart a "nutjob" and says he makes him sick. Schultz advises Dems not to go on Fox because they'll only beat them up . . . then complains that Breitbart won't come on his show.
In this afternoon's press conference, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs repeatedly said that the Obama administration, through the person of its Agriculture Secretary, has tried but failed to have a phone conversation with Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official it forced out yesterday.
On Morning Joe, Norah O'Donnell, Margaret Carlson and Mike Barnicle offer a variety of excuses for the MSM's under-coverage of incidents of black-against-white racism.
On Morning Joe, Pres. Carter's former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says there "is a sense of pervasive malaise" in the country. What's worse, Pres. Obama hasn't been able to generate "an organizing idea" to address that malaise.
Ed Schultz and Bill Press blast Harry Reid for accusing Pres. Obama of being weak, but Press effectively agrees with Reid, saying no one is afraid of the president.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski wants to "cut the crap" about Sarah Palin's 2012 presidential plans. According to Mika, it's a done deal she will run, and the press is letting itself be sucked into a phony build-up.
