I haven't written about the Sunday News Shows for several weeks. Mostly because either PBS was having fundraiser and wasn't airing the news shows, or I was busy doing something else, like travelling. But today's shows had some interesting tidbits.

I thought the number one, most interesting thing that happened consistently throughout the morning was how the conservative, Republican commentators, such as Charles Krauthamer, David Brooks, and the like, all tried to distance the Republican party from Sarah Palin. And...they had very similar ways of trying to do it - by naming other Republicans, like Paul Ryan from Wisconsin, as the "real" face of the party.

Krauthamer expressed frustration that the media keeps bringing her up, which lead Colby King to an almost giggly defense of Palin and her right to speak out. Oh my!

In the same vein, the coverage from the Republican conference this weekend, where Palin and others spoke, produced a soundbite from Newt Gingrich, in his speech, saying that Obama was the "most radical president in history." Oh really?

So Richard Nixon, and his lies, and even criminal actions, was less radical than Obama? Oh my again! Gingrich is a hypocritical jerk. I hope he runs for president. He'll be ate alive.

Of course, the Stevens resignation was discussed. It blows my mind that they keep calling him the "most liberal" member of the court. That, my friends, is a very scary thought, and shows how the obsolete 5 person majority of the Supreme Court is outrageously to the right, and is out of synch with the needs of the country. Stevens is not a liberal. He's just someone who understands the average thinking of the average american a lot better than Roberts, Scalia, and the others do.

Finally, there was some discussion of the Virginia governor somehow forgetting to address slavery while issuing an official statement about Confederacy History week, or something of the like. What's with these republican governors from Virginia anyway? Are they all racist? Of course, George Allen went down in flames with his infamous "macacaw" comment - totally oblivious to the racial insinuations. And now this? What's next...an executive order banning blacks from Virginia? OK, that is probably overblown, but I say it to demonstrate just how outrageous these kind of attitudes are, especially in an important state like Virginia.