President Obama‘s Wednesday announcement of Richard Cordray‘s recess appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau prompted copious wailing by Republicans, who had spent months blocking the nomination in order to kneecap the newly-formed agency. At Thursday’s White House briefing, the mainstream media’s focus was, of course, on whether the President should have done something to make Republicans mad.

On Monday night’s broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, host Keith Olbermann matched the show’s edgy new look with some choice language for Motor City Madman Ted Nugent. Flouting the obviously more=relaxed standard of his new home at Current TV, Olbermann gifted the Nuge with the coveted “Worst Person in the World” prize for calling Occupy protesters “dirty, stinky hippies,” and stuck a big profane bow on it, calling Nugent “Asshole!” as he finished the segment.

Even though Fox News is known for using offbeat guests like Ted Nugent and a stable of body-language experts, it was still a bit jarring to see hard-edged Megyn Kelly interviewing a self-proclaimed psychic on this afternoon’s edition of America Live. Kelly quizzed Dallas psychic Stephanie Almaguer, with a straight face, about her efforts to help find Missouri baby Lisa Irwin, missing since early October.

Well, someone has to address the elephant in the room. I know what you’re all thinking. It’s clear. Obviously, everyone knows the big problem with the GOP’s 2012 contender selection: There aren’t enough candidates! Fortunately, Mike Huckabee may have heard the call as sources have said that he is considering rejoining the race.

The big question here, of course, is whether this means there will be no more Ted Nugent duets or a lot more Ted Nugent duets?

Rep. Michele Bachmann is one prone to some controversy, though the type she found this week was certainly new: musician Tom Petty requested she stop using his song “American Girl” on the campaign trail. It’s neither the first nor last time that a politicians finds themselves in that position, and the fact that it’s common knowledge one needs permission to use songs had last night’s Red Eye panel asking: did Rep. Bachmann spark Petty’s wrath on purpose?

Last week, Tea Party darling and ’70′s rock ‘n’ roll participant,’ Ted Nugent, wrote an editorial in The Washington Times designed to jolt what he described as today’s apathetic, “terminally-stoned” youth awake. Last night, Stephen Colbert lauded this effort, pointing out that Nugent “knows that the thing that’s going to jolt our youth awake is our newspaper industry!”

With the 2012 Republican presidential race thinning out, Bill Maher is becoming increasingly irritated with the quirkiness factor of the field, but can’t see a way out. “The crazier the contestants, the more the voters like it,” he argued on last night’s Real Time, and the search was on to find “a candidate meaner than [Donald] Trump and dumber than [Sarah] Palin.” To that end, Maher decided to help out with a few suggestions, only half of which were fully human.

Amid reported (and denied) pressure from Fox News, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has ended the suspense, announcing Saturday night that he will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Huckabee’s announcement comes on the heels of Fox News’ termination of Huckabee stablemates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum over ethical and legal concerns about their respective presidential bids, and as if to underscore the conflict, was made on Fox’s air.

On Tuesday night’s Hannity, host Sean Hannity joined a chorus of conservative objectors to rapper Common‘s invitation to a White House poetry event. In particular, Hannity objected to a line from a Common poem that said “Burn a bush for peace,” and said that “If this was somebody who used the same type of rhetoric about violence against President Obama I would be against it.”

So what did Hannity have to say when rocker Ted Nugent suggested that then-Senator Barack Obama “suck on” his machine gun?

Conservative media lightning rod and former “Matt Drudge bitch“ Andrew Breitbart is nothing if not quotable, a quality he displays to amusing effect (intentionally and otherwise) in his interview for April’s issue of GQ magazine. Asked why former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R-FNC) wasn’t on his 2012 dream ticket (he picked Allen West and Michele Bachmann), Breitbart responded that the job was “beneath” her. The governorship of Alaska must have been positively subterranean, then.

It seems that Anderson Cooper can’t get enough of hunter/rocker Ted Nugent on his special edition of 360º, and, as an opening act, Nugent sure is giving Piers Morgan a run for his money. After mocking CNN for hiring Eliot Spitzer earlier this week, Nugent went all out against a less risky target on a topic near and dear to his heart: obesity.

In the dead zone of programming between the end of Larry King Live and the debut of Piers Morgan Tonight, Anderson Cooper has been charged with hosting the hour, and in periodic Larry King tradition of inexplicable political round tables united rocker Ted Nugent and comedienne Roseanne Barr with actual political strategist Cornell Belcher. It didn’t take long for Nugent to get inappropriate, comparing CNN to “planet of the apes” for hiring Eliot Spitzer.

On the heels of a Media Matters item highlighting allegedly racially charged comments at an Idaho bar, rocker Ted Nugent was named Keith Olbermann‘s Worst Person in the World tonight. In bestowing the honor, Olbermann mentioned that Nugent is a scheduled speaker at Glenn Beck‘s 8/28 “Restoring Honor” rally. Unfortunately for Olbermann and Media Matters, they have the story wrong.

This morning, a Media Matters Google Ads spot, questioning Glenn Beck‘s inclusion of Dr. Laura defender Sarah Palin in his “Restoring Honor” rally, appeared in a rather unusual place: Beck’s own website.  The ad juxtaposes Palin’s defense of Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who quit her radio show following an n-word-laden rant, with Beck’s insistence that his rally will “reclaim the Civil Rights movement.”

As it turns out, the location of the ad is no mere coincidence.

On last night’s 4th of July episode of Hannity, Sean Hannity had “Rock Star/Hunter” Ted Nugent on to spread some holiday cheer, but thanks to the Obama administration, he only had bad news. Did you know that the White House is currently “spitting on the U.S. Constitution, the Bill Of Rights, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule”?

Anthony Bourdain hosts a food and travel show called No Reservations on the Travel Channel. Friday he joined CNN’s Candy Crowley, conservative rock star Ted Nugent and AC 360 host Anderson Cooper to discuss political issues of the day. Known for his candor, Bourdain did not disappoint in his frank assessment of the Tea Party movement, labeling those involved “very angry white people.”

On Time 100 day, we get to do quite a bit of navel gazing in the media world. While the gem of the columns may be the revelation that Ted Nugent wants Sarah Palin for his band, there is plenty of other great stuff through the biographies. Still, the best part of the spreads could very well be the other voices recruited to discuss leaders in media and the world, not just normal columnists and editors at Time.

It’s the moment I know you’ve all be waiting for: this year’s Time 100: The Most Influential People In the World (or at least people that stand a good chance of getting more magazines off the stands) has been released. One of the fun features of the Time 100 list is the magazine’s match-making skills when it comes to finding bold-faced names to pen the blurbs that accompany the some of the featured nominees. This year there are some eye-catching pairings.

Rocker turned Second Amendment activist Ted Nugent made an appearance on this morning’s Glenn Beck Radio Program to tell America to learn to fend for yourself and get off all that “room service.” And while he was there, he had a bone to pick with Glenn Beck‘s sensitive hands.

Why is Fox News asking Ted Nugent about health care reform? Earlier today, host Neil Cavuto, asked the rock musician what he thought about the coming fall election, which Nugent had referred to it as a “new independence day,” which launched Nugent on a crazed tirade about how the politicians are pigs and how “we gotta kill the pigs.” Cavuto followed with “I know you are talking humorously about that,” to which Nugent replied “not really, it’s metaphoric.” Huh.

It’s official, Sarah Palin has managed to start another media fire storm with her Facebook page posting on the matter (death panels, the politically correct version?) and it doesn’t look like it’s going to simmer down soon. If every public figure who uses the term is to be fired, Palin may have a long list on her hands. Also, she may want us to turn in France.