From time to time, our readers will challenge us to cover a story they think we’ve missed, so when one such reader alerted us that First Lady Michelle Obama thanked “CNN and the rest of the mainstream media for all its support and kindness,” we got right on the case. Sure enough, Real Clear Politics had the goods, under the headline Michelle Obama: “Fortunately, We Have Help From The Media.”

Aha! Proof that the in-the-tank lamestream media is in the tank, right? Not so much.

As the outrage against the TSA body scanners and pat downs reaches a boiling point and anyone who is anyone (as well as anyone) gives their opinion, the collective Internet hive mind known as Reddit has thrown in their two cents as well as a pretty clever gauntlet; if President Obama agrees with the TSA that this is necessary, he should send his wife and young daughters through the process.

Well you can’t accuse Glenn Beck of not owning up to his mistakes…again and again. On today’s show Beck followed up on Friday’s apology for his controversial remark making fun of President Obama‘s daughter Malia. Beck said that he left his radio show on Friday and “I told myself I wasn’t making fun of the kids, and I believed it.” That is until he got home to his wife who set him straight.

The bad blood between Glenn Beck and Rick Sanchez is nothing new and, given their fiery personalities, probably to be expected. But today, on Rick’s “List U Don’t Want 2 Be On,” his outrage toward Beck for making fun of Malia Obama (which Beck has apologized for) took another, familiar form, when Sanchez pointed out he thought Beck did the same thing he apologized for in the apology. Hm, where have we heard that before?

Glenn Beck made some questionable jokes about Malia Obama yesterday morning– namely, about President Barack Obama saying that she had been asking him if he had plugged “the hole” in the Gulf of Mexico yet, and fairly quickly caught himself and apologized. Most of the headlines were that Glenn Beck apologized for saying something controversial. For Keith Olbermann, the newsworthy point was that, Olbermann claims, Beck repeated his mistakes in the apology.

Good on him.

A few hours after making some derogatory comments about Malia Obama while making fun of her father, Glenn Beck has released a brief statement apologizing and admitting he “broke his own rules.”

For years there’s been debate over whether or not mocking a politician’s family (particularly their children) is fair game. For the most part, political opponents and comedians have kept their swipes at the Chelsea Clintons and the Bush Twins of the world to a minimum. This morning though, Glenn Beck clearly stepped over the line when he began insulting and denigrating 11-year old Malia Obama.

President Obama had plenty of informed and lengthy answers to questions about the BP Oil Spill during today’s press conference. But his remark about the question his daughter Malia asked him this morning while he was brushing his teeth will likely be the one-line takeaway (and/or make it to a t-shirt near you soon). “Did [...]

I can’t say I started crying during the opening credits of the upcoming HBO documentary By The People: The Election of Barack Obama, but only because I got to the theater five minutes late. The film — which will air on November 3 on HBO — begins in Iowa in 2007, eight months before the caucuses and light years before today, and spends nearly half of its two-hours focusing on the state and the young supporters populating its campaign headquarters.

The Vancouver Sun reports on an explosion of racially-charged slurs in the comments section of Free Republic, a popular conservative blog: “‘A typical street whore.’ ‘A bunch of ghetto thugs.’ ‘Ghetto street trash.’ ‘Wonder when she will get her first abortion.’ These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia.”