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It’s all Dick Cheney all the time.

6:47 a.m. Apparently Gore going after Bush is different than Cheney answering questions when asked.

6:48 a.m. The president sees political advantage to this so will continue.

6:58 a.m. Willie scores the interview and a kiss.

7:00 a.m. She mentions that people of all ages should have the courage to stand up for what they believe in.

7:01 a.m. Let’s be honest she was attacked for saying something that the PRESS disagreed with. Willie nailed it.

7:03 a.m. They are riding this, but Mika is trying to ask an actual question and they are skipping her. The serious question she asked yesterday is being ignored.

7:04 a.m. Boy that cartoon is no more true then it is right now.

7:06 a.m. They still haven’t mentioned the Pope’s walk out (or the Israeli objections to his speech).

7:08 a.m. They are getting serious now concerning those aircraft transcripts. Heilman blames deregulation. Apparently it is republicans fault that these guys are dead.

7:10 a.m. They are getting very heavy and are looking to getting an air expert on.

7:11 a.m. Savannah Guthre on the supreme court issue. There is no list that has all the contenders.

7:13 a.m. The Commencement is at ASU is today.

7:14 a.m. A TAD BIT CONTROVERSIAL? Notre Dame is a tad bit controversial?

7:15 a.m. They look for a plane expert and presto, this is one of the reasons why this show is excellent, they say lets get someone who can answer this question and they call and get them at once. Tom Costello, totally unscheduled.

7:16 a.m. The 24 year girl had more hours than the Captain?!! That’s news. Apparently it wasn’t the young girl it was the captain who blew it on the stall.

7:24 a.m. Susie Welch is 5th on the book list, but they don’t talk to the #1 guys. It’s some unknown named Levin.

7:28 a.m. It is a fake story, Susie says they need a fake story.

7:30 a.m. The real story was the suppression of the left.

7:38 a.m. Cramer says Spitzer is full of it. I think the idea it to try to rehabilitate him.

7:40 a.m. All the mortgage brokers are nailed. I haven’t heard Geithner being complemented before

7:41 a.m. The responsible guys are going up and the bad guys are sinking says Cramer. Now is the time to buy homes he says. He is putting his own money where is mouth is. I think he is right. There are houses near me that are selling for under 50k. It’s a semi tough neighborhood but some are as low as 25k and this ain’t Detroit.

7:51 a.m. All about the Death of Bear Stearns.

7:52 a.m. Chris Buckley wouldn’t be on if A: he hadn’t voted Obama, and B: wrote that his late father would have voted for him. Far be it from me to say I know his father better than him, but I’m not buying that bridge.

8:01 a.m. Willie’s segment proves that a lot of people actually have a life.

8:04 a.m. Oh it was a political appointment it’s been bad for 6 years, so it is according to Schumer; BUSH’s fault of course. That might be a little unfair of me since he didn’t come out and say it.

8:18 a.m. Why did you write the book? It’s cheaper than therapy.

8:26 a.m Boy Buckley sure surprised me, just goes to show you shouldn’t judge someone by their worst decision.

8:30 a.m. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Mika is a very handsome woman who has looks, brains and integrity. (She is also good at the stick that they do).

8:32 a.m. Joe very quietly slipped in something significant. “Thanks for letting us do what we want to do.” At MSNBC to not be part of the Niche this is important. That’s why it is on every day here. It needs to be encouraged.

8:33 a.m. Ah the great George Soros, that explains Zucker’s appearance, Stewart and MSNBC at a Soros charitable function. That doesn’t diminish the charity or the good thing about the donation.

8:35 a.m. One little tweak on this, they talked about stars donating time, when Rush Limbaugh holds his annual fundraiser he doesn’t just give his time, he puts up 50k of his own to start.

8:39 a.m. Watching Copper is smart.

8:39 a.m. Short line traffic is a good indicator too, smart statement Joe.

8:50 a.m. Apparently Stan McCrystal took down the bad guys in Iraq

It’s a love fest!

6:40 “It’s like a bunch of teenagers at a Bay City rollers concert.” That line dates Joe, and my understanding of it dates me.

6:46 It seems to be all about how wonderful it is that the “Black” Obama family is in there.

6:50 Other than the Limbaugh Kidney line they see nothing much, they don’t read Nikki Finke

6:52 Just to put it in context:

…not since Don Imus roughed up Bill Clinton at the annual event has a comedian been so mean-spirited…But, unlike Imus or Colbert, Wanda Sykes didn’t lay a glove on the sitting president Barack Obama. Instead, she reserved her barbs for people who weren’t there: Dubya, John McCain, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity… But even watching the WHCA dinner on television, viewers saw the room grew very quiet and then erupt as Sykes seemed to cross the line with what was more harsh partisanship than funny comedy. At one point, the C-SPAN cameras caught Fox News commentator Glenn Beck sitting stone-faced after Sykes had singled out one conservative after another for her insults. Even Obama seemed to look uncomfortable at times.

The Tim Geithner line was classic.

6:55 a.m. The sports news was all good. Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox. Big Baby gets a line.

6:58 a.m. The swine flu line is pretty good, so is the Air Force one line. Although Althouse has a point.

7:00 a.m. The person of color joke was an inside one but Donny is right he could have said the cat sat on the mat and the media would have loved him.

7:07 a.m. I already commented on the fact that stopping in ’91 was a huge mistake. Joe in on record disagreeing.

7:09 a.m. Dick Cheney believes what he is saying says Joe. BBC’s finest thinks it is setting them up if they fail.

7:11 a.m. When it comes to getting info from these guys, we’re out of business.

7:14 a.m. Oh joy another comission.

7:18 a.m. To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, Wanda; Rush Craps a whole lot bigger than you.

7:20 a.m. Of course it won’t be trouble for them, with this media? She could have said cut off all their heads and they would have applauded.

7:26 a.m. The media is a difficult crowd for Barak Obama? Tim Russert would have never been able to say that line with a straight face David.

7:31 a.m. He only won by 7 points. That should be said every time he is mentioned.

7:33 a.m. This is another issue (war on terror) where we in the media have a blind spot

7:48 a.m. was out of the room for matthews that’s life

8:04 a.m Yeah all those different people where there but they didn’t vote for him when they had the chance.

8:11 a.m. Chris Matthews actually hits the nail on the head with his point. If you are in a situation where life and death is on the line you do what you have to do, but once you change the rule book the line will move.

8:12 a.m. There is not good faith and the administration is beating up on the last one over and over again.

8:14 a.m. WWCD in the Cuban missle crisis?

8:16 a.m. Al Hunt defending Dick Cheney, and he believes that he is acting in what he thinks was right.

8:18 a.m. Donny: “If this was Sept 12th they would be calling for steak knifes.” (Maria is Italian, I suspect that she has a very tough line quietly, at least that’s what I see in her eyes)

8:24 a.m. Hey Cheney is was more loyal to Powel than Powel was to McCain.

8:28 a.m. 13th century my a**.

8:30 a.m. Maria gets it. She is willing actually to challenge this administration.

8:37 a.m. The money is slow coming out. She says confusion and poor (not mis) management. I think it is by design.

8:46 a.m. Maria is asking the question and making the statements that people are not saying.

8:48 a.m. The congressman job for life business. Maria shoots them down. I LIKE this woman.

8:54 a.m. Hollywood certainly had a good time.

8:58 a.m. Mika seem the type that could cook.