Hour One Guest: Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on the Tucson memorial that he attended last night.
Hour Two Guest: Author/journalist Richard Wolffe (latest book) on all the week's developments surrounding the tragedy in Arizona.
OK, time to let the grownups speak. Last night President Obama addressed the nation at the memorial service for the victims of the Arizona shooting (video). It was a very powerful speech. I guess it’s easier to say all the right things when you don’t have all the wrong thoughts. The contrast with Sarah Palin’s statement yesterday was impossible to ignore. Yesterday President Obama rose to the occasion, while Sarah Palin sank to a new low. Sarah Palin was defiant. She may have ended up defying herself the Republican nomination for president. And yes, I know the correct word is “denying.” I was intentionally speaking Palin-ese. The lesson for Sarah? You can’t have a firm grip on anything while you’re pointing your finger.
Sarah Palin would have been better off swilling merlot with John Boehner and keeping her mouth shut. Yes, John Boehner skipped the memorial service to attend a cocktail party for the RNC! That may seem insensitive, but in defense of Speaker Boehner, he goes to a cocktail party every night. If John Boehner stops going to cocktail parties, then the terrorists have won. Is anyone surprised that Boehner would pick alcohol over protocol? Word to John—there’s only one kind of meeting that would justify skipping this event, and it would involve beginning a 12-step program.
On Fox News, Brit Hume said the memorial “was much more of a pep rally...” I didn’t really see that. Maybe I missed the balloon drop. Hume blamed what he saw as the lack of “mournfulness” and “sobriety” on the Native American invocation at the beginning of the service. Yes, those darned Indians! They come to this country without really ever understanding the culture. Evidently Brit Hume thinks that a traditional Christian blessing would have been more appropriate… you know—a guy with a big pointy hat swinging a ball spewing incense.
Of course, the big “Crossroads of the West” gun show scheduled for this weekend in Tucson is still on. There are billboards in Tucson with the crosshairs logo of the gun show—a crosshairs (see below). You would think they could get in trouble for that, if only from Sarah Palin’s trademark attorneys.
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