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"He was the victim of a serious miscarriage of justice, and I strongly believe that he deserved a presidential pardon. Obviously, I disagree with President Bush's decision," Cheney told Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard, a leading conservative Washington magazine.

And, this is the SNL web-only skit made about Ann Coulter, which compares her to sub-human serpent man.

If Barack Obama's reputation as a great orator somehow survives his banal Inaugural Address it will say more about press infatuation with the new president than about his actual speech-making skills.

While Obama sent reassuring signals on his mainstream views on government and markets, as well as the ongoing war on terror, his address amounted to a clumsy, cliche-ridden ramble with no focus or memorable phrases. Consider, for instance, his reference to "duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task." This passage amounts to a swamp of incoherence, platitudes and even grammatical mistakes.

The Inauguration may have been a great historical moment but it hardly produced a great speech.

In the Bush administration, it was a rule: Jackets in the Oval Office — and now, it seems, one of the first Bush-era regulations to get scrapped in the Obama White House.

"Not to my recollection," Geithner said.

Not a great endorsement for Turbotax in anticipation of the upcoming tax season. Or, Geithner, either.

"The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses. It is nothing less than a survival strategy."