Frank Rich: In his scant 145 days in office, the new president has not remotely matched the Bush record in deficit creation. Nor has he repealed the right to bear arms or exacerbated the wars he inherited. He has tried more than his predecessor ever did to reach across the aisle. But none of that seems to matter.

A minority of Americans, irrationally fearful of the fast-moving generational, cultural and racial turnover Obama embodies — indeed, of the 21st century itself, is now getting angrier in inverse relationship to his popularity with the vast majority of the country. Change can be frightening and traumatic, especially if it-s not change you can believe in. The right-wing rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic. It is getting louder each day of the Obama presidency. No one, not even Fox News viewers, can say they weren-t warned. [ READ MORE ]

Joan is tough, whether in front of “White Nationalist” Pat Buchanan at MSNBC or the bigoted motor-mouth freak at Fox’s O’Racist Factor — Bill Osama Bin O’Reilly

Osama Bin O’Reilly accuses Joan Walsh of having “blood on her hands” for defending Tiller

Olbermann dubs Limbaugh “worst person” runner-up for saying “exercise freaks” are the ones taxing the health care system

On O’Reilly Factor, Beck again denied Krugman’s account of Beck’s remarks about FEMA “concentration camps”

Matthews: “Is there a dog whistle sounding out there on radio?”

BONUS VIDEO: Willie Geist’s Week in Review

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