On a Fox News Sunday round table discussion today, Liz Cheney joined The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol and Ceci Connolly of the Washington Post to speak about, among other things, the ongoing debate centered around the locale for the 9/11 terror trials. Cheney’s response, though, was the most direct: “When we prosecuted and successfully convicted people after the ’93 World Trade Center bombing, after the East African bombing, what it got us was 9/11 and 3,000 dead Americans.”

Rachel Maddow doesn’t exactly need her online popularity boosted, but the MSNBC host’s forceful turn on Meet the Press Sunday gave her a little extra love from the left wing of the internet, including complimentary articles on The Huffington Post and Think Progress, plus a wave of favorable murmurs across the Twitter-sphere. Flexing her debate skills on both economic issues and homeland security, Maddow made her presence known, gunning for Rep. Aaron Schock at every available opportunity. Highlights inside.

High-rolling real estate player and New York Daily News publisher Mortimer B. Zuckerman may have politics in his future, according to a New York Times report this weekend. Zuckerman sees the Senate seat held by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand as “vulnerable,” but might run as a Republican or independent — despite his known political leanings — to avoid having to pay for a primary campaign.

Herbert and Zelmyra Fisher were married in 1924, so they’ve had their fair share of Valentine’s Days. This year, they heard all the kids and grandkids (and great-grandkids?) were using this newfangled Twitter and so the centenarian pair took to the service to give love advice in 140 characters bursts. Read their wisdom inside!

Former Vice President Dick Cheney broke with many prominent Republicans today when he voiced his support for a repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy on ABC’s This Week. “I think things have changed significantly,” Cheney said about the time since he served as Secretary of Defense. He indicated that he would stand behind Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has said the policy should be changed. “I think the society has moved on,” Cheney said, highlighting a “generational” shift.

In the day’s second clip from Fox & Friends, the crew manages to keep Sarah Palin‘s Handgate rolling by interviewing George W. Bush‘s press secretary Dana Perino, condemning Robert Gibbs‘ version of the joke and comparing Palin’s hand notes to Sen. Dianne Feinstein‘s during a debate way back in 1990. Feinstein, though, was breaking the rules.

The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a luger from the Republic of Georgia, during an Olympic trial yesterday has added a somber note to the start of the games 2010 Vancouver games, exemplified in the moving entrance of the country’s seven remaining athletes at last night’s opening ceremony. This morning, as newspapers across the country reported on Friday’s welcoming event, excitement was juxtaposed with tragedy.

Welcome to the internet, Robert Gibbs. President Obama’s White House press secretary joined the 140-character communication service today under the handle @PressSec. It’s not a verified account yet, but as of now looks quite reliable. As a test of its legitimacy, we’ll see if any Sarah Palin jokes start coming from the account.

Over at the New York Times online, the Bits blog has scored a statement from this week’s biggest internet celeb: the creator of random video chat phenomenon Chatroulette. According to the report, the man behind the magic is Andrey Ternovskiy, a 17-year-old high school student from Moscow.

In a mostly overlooked radio broadcast from late last week, mega-popular conservative host Michael Savage railed against conservatives supporting Sarah Palin for president in 2012. “I know more about than the stupid Republican party does,” he explained. “If they run Palin, it’s over; Obama will be a term two-er,” said Savage. “She’s not electable as president. She’s not the right person — we need a business man.”

This weekend in real journalism: C.J. Chivers turns out a vibrant and arresting report from Marja, Afghanistan entitled “In the Cold of Morning, Descending Into Conflict.” Told in a narrative style, the piece is a relic of the traditional embedded war reporting mourned by Baby Boomers and blog-haters alike. It’s well worth a read.

On Friday’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show, the host took a few minutes to politely disagree with Glenn Beck‘s views on global warming, including his refuting of Maddow’s guest Bill Nye the Science Guy. “It is one thing to be outrageously wrong about facts and science, but the price of that is getting made fun of for it and getting called out on it — boom! — by Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Maddow concluded.

Charles M. Blow, in Saturday’s New York Times op-ed “Crucible of Change” writes about the negative change that has come to Washington after so many promises. “[T]he far right has formed a movement fueled by irrational anger,” he writes, but it’s not too late for Obama to be the one to adjust. But first, he has to stop being “[s]o stubbornly sweet. So simply naïve.”

“We Are the World 25 For Haiti” made its debut at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, featuring an all-star cast of pop superstars and actors ranging from Pink and Lady Gaga to Lil Wayne and Kanye West, with a special appearance by Michael Jackson. Last night’s premiere was announced by actor Jaime Foxx and simulcasted to millions worldwide. See the full official video inside!

On Fox & Friends, an emergency heart procedure for an ex-president is a perfect opportunity for an ultra-partisan hypothetical situation: “If the democrats’ health care reform had gone through would President Clinton have received the stents?” The two stents Clinton was given on Thursday provided a jumping off point for a highly convoluted (and perhaps insensitive?) undermining of health care reform plans and the stimulus package.

After his Fox News Sunday interview with Sarah Palin, the show’s host Chris Wallace either rolled his eyes or didn’t, depending on whether you believe MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough or Wallace himself. Whether it matters or not is an entirely separate issue, but the MSNBC accusation was enough to get a response from Fox News and Wallace, who said he absolutely did not. Then, he slammed Scarborough. Video of his defense inside!

Whispers have been building about huge news regarding New York governor David Paterson, who took office after the resignation of Eliot Spitzer. Friday, The Huffington Post noticed the growing media buzz about a forthcoming New York Times scoop, but little other information could be gleaned from the handful of anonymous sources. Now, The Business Insider is reporting exclusively that the news will drop Monday and Governor Paterson’s resignation will follow.

The anticipation for tonight’s Super Bowl commercials includes the lead up to the big screen premiere of Google’s Search Stories, released last year to flaunt the ease and accuracy of their search engine. In a minimalist, Apple-style ad a close-up of the ubiquitous search bar tells a story. Tonight’s spot will likely be in an identical style, though the subject may be new. But the beyond witty video team at Slate V had an idea of their own, and it breathes new life into Tiger Woods jokes.

Uncontroversial, that is, in terms of what is shown and what is literally said. When it comes to coded language, connotation and sponsorship, though, the ad is exactly the spark plug it promised to be. The Tebow Story is, of course, the work of Focus on the Family, the controversial evangelical nonprofit, and comes along with the tag line “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life™.” The intentions are clear to anyone paying attention, but the commercial itself is beyond tame. The spot never mentions abortion or public policy at all – on screen, it’s just sweet family goodness.

In what has already proved to be a Sarah Palin-heavy weekend, the constant candidate continued to keep her media star shining bright with an appearance with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “How hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012?” she was asked. Palin doesn’t like his chances — unless he “plays the war card,” that is. ““I’m not suggesting that [he will], I’m saying if he did, things would dramatically change.”

Here’s a story with a happy ending: The Roots and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon drummer ?uestlove apologized for stirring the racial pot at the NBC cafeteria when he tweeted a photo of a Black History Month menu featuring fried chicken and collard greens. As a peacemaking offering, ?uesto presented the chef responsible with a spa gift certificate and shook his head at bloggers who blew up the issue.

It seems that during her keynote speech at last night’s Tea Party Convention, Sarah Palin used the inside of her hand to scribble notes reminding her of topics including “energy,” “budget cut,” “tax,” and “lift American spirits.” During the Q&A after her speech, you can see Palin glancing down to reference her list after attacking President Obama for using a teleprompter. Pics and video inside!

According to the leading two paragraphs in today’s New York Times feature on gender relations at colleges, here are the things that girls like: bars, beer, jokes, and Taylor Swift. That’s “everything” – “except guys.” When we weren’t looking men went extinct. Here, let a college girl explain: “This is so typical, like all nights, 10 out of 10… because there are no guys.” Even “tight-fitting tops, hair sculpted, [and] makeup” can’t lure them out. What’s a girl to do?

While discussing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” with Sean Hannity, former Marine Corp officer and Fox News contributor Ollie North highlighted the weakness of his own argument by resorting to the same old tired bigotry, comparing homosexuality to organized pedophilia. In what he called a “stunning assault on the all-volunteer military” North slammed Obama for his attempt to allow gays to serve openly in the military, alleging, “Here’s what’s next: NAMBLA members, same-sex marriages,” seemingly unsure himself about the direction his case was headed.

Clark Hoyt‘s column in Sunday’s Times is devoted to the controversy surrounding Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief, whose son recently enlisted in the Israeli military. Hoyt decided that although Bronner “has done nothing wrong,” he should be reassigned due to the appearance of bias; executive editor Bill Keller responded gracefully, but wrote “we will not be taking your advice.”