Only one network covered Speaker Pelosi's health care remarks live

By GottaLaff

This is ridiculous:

Tonight, Fox News was the only news channel [other than C-SPAN] to provide live coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi making her way to the house chamber, then speaking to members ahead of tonight's vote on health care reform. CNN stayed with a taped replay of The Situation Room. MSNBC was airing a crime documentary, but mentioned that Pelosi was speaking during a scheduled live cut-in.

Credit where credit is due. But, overall:

The news is on sabbatical. How can there be an informed public and real democracy when we have no meaningful source of facts and information?

You know it's a slow news day when...

By GottaLaff

... the top of Obama's baseball cap is the topic of a press pool report:

At 9:02 a.m., Obama's SUV pulled out of his driveway bound for the Regents Park apartment complex where his friend and periodic campaign employee Mike Signator lives and where Obama worked out at the gym for 78 minutes from 9:07 to 10:25.

The temperature in the WIndy City is a colder-early-than -usual 27 degrees but Obama was presumably only outside long enough to go from door to car (the line of sight to the building's entrance is now blocked for security purposes) and only his White Sox capped head was visible in the SUV.

His SUV pulled back onto his home street by 10:30 and we are holding nearby.

Film at 11.