Remember how Congressional Republicans went to the shut-down World War II Memorial to protest the fact that the Republican majority in the House of Representatives had just shut down the government? In a spectacular meta-expansion of that story line, today's New York Times checks in with the right-wing organizations…

MSNBC's Phil Griffin obviously did not see Obama's excellent speech yesterday about setting aside partisan bickering. He told the Chicago Tribune that Fox News overlord Roger Ailes "changed the world," and that the creation of the partisan network was "brilliant."