Gold: Bill O’Reilly must long for the days of radio or teletype, when one’s heated comments couldn’t easily follow him for years, only to be raised at inopportune times. Big Bill felt righteous anger when a "despicable slimy scummy website" hacked Sarah Palin’s email in ’08. Assuming that O’Reilly still holds to the same standard of punishment he insisted upon for the Palin miscreants, we should be secure in awaiting condemnation for his bread and butter, the "despicable, slimy, scummy" Rupert Murdoch – who should soon be in leg irons.
Silver: Michele Bachmann: In the same week that her jointly held Bachmann & Associates has been secretly filmed to reveal dangerous and archaic methods such as reparitive therapy and ex-gay therapy, Bachmann refuses to answer questions related to the family business which has received approximately $160 thousand dollars in federal money. This makes it our business to know her business, which she claims is a ‘job creator.’ Oh please! What kind of jobs, how many, and to whom did they go? My guess is that it is a perfect example of trickle down economics – that doesn’t. Alternately, it is a model of a publically funded job creator – which doesn’t, beyond the Bachmann family and a ‘counselor’ or two.
Bronze: AZ State Senator Lori Klein is in the news – again, with yet another firearm incident. How could she help it? Her new semi automatic Ruger is a fashion statement in raspberry pink, anyone would be anxious to show it off! However, not just anyone would point a loaded gun with no safety, at point blank range. There will not be so much as a wrist slap, it might affect her aim, and that is simply not how things are done down in wild western Arizona!
She does love her guns! This is not the first incident for the careless, pink pistol packing Senator. Just two days after the Tucson shooting rampage which left six dead, and thirteen wounded including Gabrielle Giffords, Klein brought a different gun to the opening joint session of the Legislature. You never know when it’s ‘Show and Tell’ day. Again, there were no consequences, she apparently has a weapon to match every pair of shoes, and is allowed to point them at whomever she pleases when the whim comes over her.