Today is the anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Yet not one news show this reported mentioned it. Very interesting. Do we, the public, know anywhere near the truth of what was behind the Kennedy assassination? No. And the government has no interest in us knowing the truth.

All these great Americans on the Sunday News Shows and not one mentioned it. Isn't that strange?

But here's my comments about the shows based on their face value:

The Sunday News shows today focused on several things - health care, of course, afghanistan, Obama’s foreign trip, the breast cancer guidelines confusion, Sarah Palin, and the economy, as well a few other issues of interest, including one that I am going to put into the top tier discussions.

That issue was discussed by the women on “To the Contrary,” as to whether or not sexism or racism was worse. I think it was a very interesting discussion. They all seemed to agree that sexism was worse than racism, including minority women on the panel. That involved a discussion of the media coverage of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin’s national campaigns, the confirmation of Sotomayer as a Supreme Court justice, and even the makeup of panels for the Sunday News shows.

Ironically, immediately after “To the Contrary” on KET, was Inside Washington. And guess what? Three white males in suits and Nina Totenberg, the token “liberal” and “female.” It sort of made the case.

I just have to comment on how far to the right McLaughlin has come in the last months. And it is disappointing to see McLaughlin pushing Sarah Palin. I thought McLaughlin was smarter than that.

There is one thing that I want to comment on which is becoming a right wing mantra - that is, that “Obama’s heart is not in the Afghanistan war” which is why he is taking his time on making a long term decision on what to do there.

Pat Buchanan quoted former McLaughlin panelist Tony Blankley, a real right winger, as writing that he thinks we should withdraw from Afghanistan because “Obama’s heart isn’t into it” and that putting soldiers into harm’s way when the “commander in chief” doesn’t have his heart into the action isn’t right.

This is a slick right wing trick to try and pin anything other than us conquering Afghanistan and forcing the population to bow down to us as Obama’s fault. But it’s the lowest of low in terms of strategy, because they have no idea what is in Obama’s heart, and to a large extent the policy in Afghanistan is inherited from Bush. To try to cleverly push the blame of Bush’s bad policy onto Obama is going to fail, because people know better.

It wasn't just the JFK assassination that hurt our country, but the assassination of RFK and MLK. It cut the progressive movement 's head off in the US, and we've suffered greatly for it. The fact that the conservative main stream media doesn't want to bring it up, and their failure in covering it properly shouldn't be surprising. But it says a lot anyway.

In fact, the entire effort to cast Obama as someone who is not getting anything done when he hasn’t been in office even a year yet, is pretty desperate. But, that doesn’t mean that Obama can afford not to get anything done. He has to. But to sit back and do nothing but throw stones at a nice guy who is trying to do something to help is a weird strategy if you ask me.