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How sleazy and rock-bottom was Maggie Rodriguez’s interview of Levi Johnston and his family, aired on The Early Show this morning? At one point Rodriguez asked Levi’s sister whether she thought the Palins were “snobby.” Consider that. CBS thought it was good journalism to ask and appropriate to air the opinion of: the sister of the former boyfriend of the daughter of a former vice-presidential candidate whether she thought that former vice-presidential candidate’s family was “snobby.” View video here.

If Maggie Rodriguez [file photo] had been aboard the Titanic and an officer had started screaming at the captain that the ship was headed for an iceberg and the Captain had to dramatically change course, Maggie would presumably have admonished him: “what good does it to to point that out? Why don’t you see if you can compromise, maybe get the captain to slow it down a knot or two?” That’s the same kind of advice the Early Show co-anchor gave Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), when on today’s Early Show he said, pointing out the PBO’s own budget projections are...

Really, what is up with Barney Frank? A few days ago, I noted what a sourpuss performance he put in on Fox News Sunday. The Massachusetts Dem was back at it this morning, first correcting, then snapping at his Early Show host, Maggie Rodriguez. The topic was, of course, the AIG bonuses, and Barney was firmly on the outrage bandwagon. We’ll get to the substance in a bit, but let’s start with Frank’s rude form . . . He had been pointing the finger at the Federal Reserve, which gave the first bailout money to AIG back in September. That...

The Early Show exiled Ann Coulter to its second half-hour today in favor of a peanut-butter update. And once there, Ann was tripled-team by the Early Show anchors. But that didn’t stop her from making the point that, now more than ever, Republicans need to stick by their principles. Coulter did so in the face of the suggestion from Maggie Rodriguez that what Republicans should really be doing is, of course, moving to the middle. MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ: Don’t you think that right now, it is, it behooves the Republicans to be a little bit more in the middle. Their voices...

Prices shouldn't be set by supply and demand. They should be determined by, well, what prices "should" be. That's the innovative theory Maggie Rodriguez propounded on today's Early Show. The Early Show anchor's unique take on economics came in the course of a segment on the falling price of gasoline. Rodriguez lamented to co-anchor Chris Wragge that grocery prices weren't falling along with gas prices. In Maggie's view, grocers who set prices based on demand rather than on what prices "should" be are the culprits. View video here.

For someone who doesn't know something as obvious as the fact that, given her upcoming book, Gwen Ifill has a financial stake in an Obama win, Maggie Rodriguez has an awfully high opinion of the knowledge level of ordinary Americans. Rodriguez interviewed a feisty Fred Thompson on today's Early Show. During the course of the contentious exchange: * Rodriguez, questioning Thompson on Sarah Palin's inability to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, claimed that “everybody” and “ordinary Americans” can cite Supreme Court cases. * But when Thompson stated that Palin would be...

Just a puny personal pronoun, yet one that perhaps spoke volumes about MSM attitudes toward religion. On the occasion of the Mass that Pope Benedict XVI will be celebrating later day at DC's Nationals Park, Early Show co-anchor interviewed Father Thomas Williams, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as a CBS religion analyst. For the liberal media, even a subject as seemingly innocuous as a nice spring day can suddenly turn into a PC minefield should it put an MSMer in the position of having to recognize God's work, as this exchange reveals. View video here.