I just have to comment about some of the news and news shows that I saw this evening. I thought it was really fascinating.

First, David Brooks lipstick, on Jim Lehrer's News Hour, matched his tie, which I thought was very interesting. I didn’t know conservative male icons went for lipstick. But, from a fashion wise statement, it was very much color coordinated.

Second, I have to stick my tongue out at Judy Woodruff, who let some republican congressman, I don’t remember his name, say that Obama had “nationalized” health care without even questioning the statement. Give me a break. By any honest definition of “nationalizing” what Obama is proposing isn’t anywhere close. And in the context of Obama’s statement today before the republican retreat that they made his health care proposal seem like something “Bolshevic,” the fact that Woodruff wasn’t more sensitive to the kind of hyperbolizing of the issue is amazing. Was she asleep?

Finally, on McLaughlin, the fact that McLaughlin himself gave Obama two A’s on his state of the union address - one for style and one for substance - was the most amazing moment of the evening. He gave Obama better grades than even Clift and Page - the two “liberal” panelists. I’m not sure I agree with McLaughlin, but the fact that he said it is very significant.