1. Nancy Gibbs and I are out with a new cover story on Michelle Obama. (Subscribe to the magazine, already. $1.99 for 6 weeks.) Our full 50-minute interview with Michelle can be read here. There is also another great Callie Shell photo essay here.
2. David Axelrod thinks all this Cheney noise only underscores the reasons NOT to pursue a truth commission. “I would say the last three weeks have demonstrated the perils of such a thing,” he tells me.
3. Keith Olbermann accomplishes the improbable: He makes Rush Limbaugh look sympathetic and reasonable by comparison.
4. Is there anyone out there who thinks Organizing For America is living up to its billing as a new people-powered political movement? Their latest initiative: Ask people to “declare your support” for Obama’s healthcare plan. Once you do, you are prompted to organize a meetup, where others can declare their support, and then asked to give money. Nowhere is it explained exactly what “declaring your support” means, especially since President Obama himself has yet to be specific. I am increasingly skeptical that this is much more than a top-down placeholder for 2012. Will they go door-to-door in Nebraska to pressure Ben Nelson? Will there be public events? Where is the impact?
5. Wonkette reads my blog post from yesterday, gets confused about what I was trying to say, or annoyed by how I am trying to say it, or both, and decides to just write another headline about masturbation.