Vice President Joe Biden‘s praise for the President’s decision to raid Osama bin Laden‘s home– a decision he described as “the boldest undertaking any president has taken in any event in modern history”– has on the Democratic side blanketed many issues beyond homeland security. On tonight’s Special Report, the (mostly conservative) panel took objection to the idea that this one issue would translate to a mandate in domestic policy, arguing Americans are not that “stupid.”

While there is widespread outrage over Sarah Palin‘s misappropriation of the term “blood libel,” very little attention is being paid to the fact that her response is fixed around the lie that criticism of Palin has centered around the use of common electoral “targeting” metaphors, rather than the specific use of crosshairs, a lie that was called out last March by Gabrielle Giffords herself.

This is the sort of programming that could really get people to tune into CSPAN! During a BookTV discussion of Jonah Goldberg‘s latest book Proud to Be Right two of the panelists who had contributed essays to the tome got into an interesting back and forth. Todd Seavey and Helen Rittelmeyer used to date, and judging by Seavey’s comments, he’s still fairly bitter about the break-up. The Daily Caller described it as “the wonkiest, nerdiest Internet revenge ever.”

Walter Cronkite is widely regarded as an icon — and, to many aspiring journalists, a role model. He and his coverage of the Vietnam War are often referred to as a highpoint in journalism even today. Jonah Goldberg of the Los Angeles Times has a vastly different opinion. In today’s column, he writes that Cronkite is “truly one of the most overrated national icons of the 20th century” who misreported aspects of the Vietnam War.

Sarah Palin continues to hold this week’s news cycle hostage, giving what sounded suspiciously like a campaign speech to a crowd at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Dressed in her signature red blazer, Palin evoked the “people’s movement” in a speech that was a minefield of Bushisms, Bill Clinton impersonations, a shoutout to Jonah Goldberg, and her most biting attacks on Barack Obama yet.

Where were you a year ago today? If you are a political journalist — or media hanger-on — chances are you were living out of a suitcase at the 2008 Presidential Conventions, with the Dems nominating Barack Obama in Denver and the GOP nominating John McCain in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Remember those heady days?