Does Norah read NewsBusters? Could it be pure coincidence that Hardball's 'What'd You Say?' audio highlights of the week just happened to select the two items we had highlighted here [0] and here [0]? Who knows?

For the record, the two featured soundbites were Joe Biden's
Indian-7/11 slur, and Cindy Sheehan's pronouncement that she would
rather live under Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez than George Bush.
Panelist Tucker Carlson had the best line: "[Sheehan's] a
pathetic figure. It would be a hard moral call whether or not to have
her on. She's almost like a sideshow figure now." Too true.

In any case, Joe Scarborough took the occasion to apologize for being too mean to Democrats. Earlier in the segment he had said: "I can guarantee you if [OBL] were arrested tomorrow, Democrats, George Bush's nemesis, would say 'well it's not really that big of a deal anyway, because Americans are dying in Iraq.'"

Darn right they would. But for some reason, Joe abjectly backtracked later in the segment:

"I've got to apologize very quickly for my remark about Democrats wouldn't be happy about Osama Bin Laden being caught. I'm cranky today. I didn't mean it."

Really, Joe? If Hillary, Nancy and Harry woke up tomorrow, turned on the tube, and saw that OBL were caught, you honestly think they'd be happy?