President Barack Obama may be having a hard time rallying the American people behind American intervention in Libya, but tonight he found some lukewarm support from an unlikely source: Bill O’Reilly and Factor regular Bernie Goldberg. While neither of the two have been huge fans of the president in the past– and Goldberg admitted to some skepticism on the Libyan situation, both agreed that the “industry of Obama-bashing” and “rigid ideology” was harming America.

First it was flying books, and now it’s flying elbows. The White House has just announced that President Obama was injured today while playing basketball. After being hit in the mouth, the President needed 12 stitches in his lip.

Sarah Palin really knows how to get the most bang for her buck out of her catchphrases. Palin’s Twitter account— apparently she’s retreated from Facebook after the backlash against her Carly Fiorina endorsement Update: and her Facebook — already hinted at her fury about this, but today Palin took to Fox News to discuss the Illinois girl’s basketball team whose school is protesting against the new Arizona illegal immigration law, and she wants the girls to “go rogue” in response.

The network that talked to Pres. Barack Obama during a Duke-Georgetown game in January will have another hoops-related exclusive this week.

CBS’ The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith will interview Pres. Obama on the White House basketball court. Then they will play basketball.

Two of Washington’s most colorful characters, Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Senator from Massachusetts Scott Brown, are scheduled to meet for lunch today. No one knows quite what the two will chat about, but it’s a safe bet the Senate’s health care deliberations will come up. It’s also a safe bet one of the two will tell an off-color joke that, for any other politician, would destroy their career. Oh, to be a fly on the wall!

MA Sen. Scott Brown and his daughter Ayla may be the most masterful self-promoters in America this side of Snooki and The Situation. In a move perfectly in sync with the happy-go-lucky everyman character he created for himself on the campaign trail, Brown had proposed to Pres. Barack Obama in his victory speech that he could defeat him in a two-on-two basketball game with college basketball star Ayla on his side. Now, Politico reports the Brown family is claiming they are “serious” about the challenge, and have found a good reason to stage the event: helping out Haiti.

Rachel Maddow takes no prisoners. Infuriated by the gratuitous right-wing jubilation that the massive Northeast snowstorms completely expose global warming as a hoax, Maddow took the liberty of making a series of analogies ranging from basketball to tadpoles to winning the lottery to disprove that connection. Short version of her argument: anomalies exist.

But just to assure the audience that her point was absolutely irrefutable, she brought an absolutely irrefutable personality on the air to agree with her: beloved childhood icon Bill Nye the Science Guy.