Enablers

I didn't know Glenn Beck's mother committed suicide when he was 13.  Judging from his interview on The Today Show this morning, he probably thought I knew that.  He told interviewer Meredith Viera that everyone knows the things he has said when she began to list a few in asking whether he regretted any vitriol he may have spewed.  Obviously, Beck fights a lot of demons, real or imagined -- and feels compelled to do so in public.  NBC et al are more than happy to set the stage.

Over on "Good Morning, America," Joan and Melissa Rivers were holding forth with George Stephanopoulos.   I was in the dentist's chair, so I couldn't hear what was being said.  Can't imagine needing to.  "The Early Show" has a soup chef, too. A shot across Chris Wallace's bow?

In Washington, Jackie Chan subs for John Boehner at tonight's state dinner with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

In Little Rock, the Arkansas legislature spun wheels talking about a bill to reclaim "Land of Opportunity" as the state motto, ditching "The Natural State."   Missed the livestream on that, darn it!