Well, they were right, all those folks who said President Obama’s education speech would be an exercise in mass indoctrination if not downright mass hypnosis of our nation’s children. They warned us that this was step one in creating legions of liberal zombies—Ozomabies—ready to do the nefarious bidding of our radical chief executive, be it rolling grandma’s wheelchair to the senior extermination center, or doing community organizing.

Do you like that title? I’ve been reading a lot of articles and posts today about the release of all the new Beatles stuff, and all of them use Beatle song titles and lyrics to seem hip and knowledgeable, so I thought I’d better do the same.

I’ve finally sorted through my feelings about last night’s heckling of President Obama during last night’s health care speech to Congress and the nation. South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson, as you’ve no doubt heard by now, shouted out “you lie” when the president said his bill would not “insure illegal immigrants.”

Next week is a big one for PIX News and all of our viewers. We’ve got a very new kind of newscast launching on Monday. I wanted to write a little here to get you thinking about it and excited about it.

Years ago, as I was starting out my TV news career in Kingsport, Tennessee, I was interviewing the district’s veteran congressman, Rep. James “Jimmy” Quillen. (Quite the character was he; he served 17-terms, and yet managed to sponsor only three pieces of original legislation. Once when I was interviewing him about the Eqypt/Israeli peace agreement, he repeatedly referred to citizens of the former as “e-GYP-ians.” Near the end of his career, one fellow Republican in Congress was quoted as saying, "Jimmy's one helluva nice guy, ... but let's face it. He couldn't organize a one-car funeral." But I digress. Here’s a link if you’d like to continue your own exploration of Congressman Quillen’s storied career).

What a fascinating political sideshow it’s been the past few days, this dust up involving the White House and New York Governor David Paterson. President Obama reportedly sent word to Paterson, via an aide, that he shouldn’t run for election to a full term in 2010, because… well, because nobody likes him, respects him, or thinks he’s doing a remotely acceptable job. Okay, “nobody” is a strong word; but polls show Paterson has a roughly 20% approval rating, which is political terms is equal to.. nothing.

I had a bit of a revelation a couple of days ago, about the nature of national television news as it stands today, at least as it concerns political/public policy stories. Lots of you have probably had this revelation already, but, hey, I work in the media, and sometimes can’t see the forest for the trees.

I really wanted all of you to see something from an event I emceed Wednesday night. Some of it aired on our 10 PM newscast, but the rest of the video deserves to be seen.

When my seven-year-old twin boys started clamoring to get the video game “Guitar Hero” earlier this year, I always had a good answer: we have REAL guitars in the house, I would say; learn to play them instead of some fake video thing that teaches you nothing about music. And I stuck to that, right up to the time they convinced me to at least try “Guitar Hero” at a video arcade during our vacation. When they asked me after that if we could get it for our home, I’m, like. “uh, yahhh.” (Hey, it takes a big man to admit to his children that he was wrong about something.)