Sunday Roundup

Oscar Sunday is traditionally the one day of the year when Hollywood turns its back on sequels. This week's headlines, on the other hand, were rife with stories we'd seen before. In Afghanistan, 13 people, including two American soldiers, were killed in the aftermath of the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base (is unhinged Florida pastor Terry Jones preparing to demand royalties?). At the White House, President Obama again broke out in song, this time riffing on "Sweet Home Chicago" (as usual, the sequel didn't live up to the original: His "Let's Stay Together" was much cooler). Meanwhile, in Arizona, the GOP gave us the latest installment in the longest running horror series since Friday the 13th (this time out, Romney returned from the dead yet again after goading Rick Santorum into making a spirited defense of Senate process and earmarks). My actual Oscar picks: The Artist, Clooney and Viola Davis. The envelopes please...

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[4spdstick]

10:00 PM on 02/26/2012

i don't know arianna, i thought the prez did a better than passable job laying down the blues with ol' b.b.
annotonlythat, he looked confident, comfortable in his own skin and having a good time.
go get 'em mr. president

[SueZbell]

08:00 PM on 02/26/2012

photographer for your article knew whose pic to take

yay Clooney

[pugszb]

04:43 PM on 02/26/2012

I am a Screen Actors Guild member and have seen all of the Best Picture entries. I really hope that The Artist is not chosen as Best Picture. If it is I fear that more film makers will make silent movies. Sorry but the format is antiquated and boring. My partner could not take more than 15 minutes of it. Fine, she likes action pictures but if this is the best picture of the year I would say The Oscars have gone totally political. The Help at least has social relevance.

[headpiece419]

04:33 PM on 02/26/2012

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Mark Knudsen]

01:22 PM on 02/26/2012

With all this Sunday analysis..that lead to nothing to change the course of our search to change anything ...how many of those who profess to be religious is some form or another... how many of you truly practiced what you profess...take the simple universal ones among all major religions..the "golden rule and the teaching of the sermon on the mound ' you don't have to split hairs on these and they would do wonders..ow bout forgetting all this analysis.and moaning and groaning....and do something this coming week..positive..you can look back on and smile...I did a part to make it better...the old viking

[headpiece419]

03:54 PM on 02/26/2012

One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.Overall the golden rule comes in a hundreth place, money comes in first. You must only be conserned with what you can control, and for people with the bucks , that includes laws. The whole government is broken. aHHHH!

[LewisWalsh]

01:00 PM on 02/26/2012

My response to Lawyer Porker below:

Do you mean the social safety net? You mean US government subsidized child care, mandatory five weeks vacation, 80% worker union representation, high minimum wages, guaranteed universal health care, free higher education. Oh, sorry, that would be France and the Euro countries.

[CommentSense]

12:35 PM on 02/26/2012

Since we are predicting - my prediction is - since Republicans have basically sent the Hispanic population their packing bags with fear and disrespect, Obama will claim a win in Arizona this November.

[giftsthatpurr]

12:51 PM on 02/26/2012

F/F

[wonderYrednow]

11:52 AM on 02/26/2012

Very safe on the Oscars, but probably correct.

[mangoaddict]

11:26 AM on 02/26/2012

Arianna why do we have to be subjected to so much coverage of the Republican race? How about a little balance with a few more features of what the president is doing?

[johannesrolf]

11:02 AM on 02/26/2012

Obama had a better back up band for "Sweet home Chicago"

[haimchaim]

10:26 AM on 02/26/2012

get to know people around the world .. worlds are on a collision course .. Capt Kirk beam me up ..

[Lawyer Porker]

09:58 AM on 02/26/2012

A view from across the ocean : Arianna, you have done so much for some OAPs lives. Thank you so much.

[LewisWalsh]

01:00 PM on 02/26/2012

Please see my comment above.

[DrJykell]

09:51 AM on 02/26/2012

I believe the GOP are doing the Banksters well,,,,getting the narrative off them and on to something the country really needs----a culture war---instead of a class war...

I was trying to think of movies that ended well for occupiers in foriegn lands----most of them show a justified resistance----except for Saving private Ryan---but that was about getting someone off the battlefield....

America---as the emperial power of the world isn't looking to well these days----I was thinking maybe these foriegn adventures should be privatized to get the American govt out of the role of the oppresser------you know like Nascar----tagging ships and bombs with the corporations that are in the battle for business purposes rather than "freedom"-----

[jangoodell]

12:26 PM on 02/26/2012

Excellent--I can see "Haliburton" on many of those ships, etc.

[dogwatch]

09:49 AM on 02/26/2012

Next time we try to make a democracy out of a society made up of hundreds of cave and desert dwelling tribes with a national library containing only one book, we need to quickly depose the president who starts it. A nation that rises up in a murderous mood over the burning of its only book needs to be left alone to find its way into the modern world. They will resist with a madness all efforts to drag them out of their primitive way of life. Get out of there. Get out as soon as reasonably possible. That means start packing your gear today.

[mikal haley]

11:55 AM on 02/26/2012

what you say seems rash. what "one book" are you referring to?
looking at the post it seems you could only refer to The Republic of Plato...
and if that is what you mean, in referring to Constitutional Republic and the loud visceraldefense of its percepts by some but not all citizens -- then packing up and getting out of Greece is only the solution for some of the corrupt officials who have made that nation a debtors' prison.

but escapism is rash when we are so close to solutions.
it's ONLY been five thousand years. republic was always based on slaveholders' citizenship and now a majority is saying No worldwide. perhaps just be patient and allow these political situations to evolve, play out.

what book WERE you talking about?

[LewisWalsh]

01:15 PM on 02/26/2012

And, those who violently object to the burning of the US flag or Christian symbols are dwellers of caves and urban deserts? I can see that, only the caves and deserts are usually much nicer here.

I do believe that the US should let the less advanced areas of the world carry out their social evolution at their own pace and in their own way.

[GunnyJ]

09:14 AM on 02/26/2012

Up w/Chris Hayes is WAY better than MTP!

[Positive61]

11:52 AM on 02/26/2012

Yes!!! Exactly what I was going to say. Chris and Melissa Perry are intelligent commentators who can still invite different voices (tea party, conservatives), that Maddow, frustratingly, cannot.

I absolutely love them and refuse to watch the "pointy" talking heads on network and cable on Sundays.

P.S. I would like one of these channels to discuss Fox news cable programs beating out MSNBC...I live in the West, and know for a fact that many people are h.o.s.t.a.g.e.s to Fox.

I can go into any local government office, fast food joint, Y, P.O. some restaurants all over the state, and Fox (and only Fox,) will be on the huge TV screens. I have actually asked for the channels to be changed and been told NO.

Please post this. I would like other opinions about this. Thanks

[JBINDM]

07:27 PM on 02/27/2012

I would like to say we have been to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN and have had the same experience with lobby TV....also in the room the selection is always FOX and we have check out with comments as to why.....we have found a few hotels with MSNBC but it is not the usual cable lineup. Sad, sad, and it tells you why the citizens of this country are so poorly informed and are fighting to stay that way.