California: Keith Olbermann

A generous sampling from around the state...

• Newt Gingrich, who for some reason the media finds still relevant, has discovered the Twitter thing that all "the kids" are using.  On it, he blatantly lied that there has been no oil spills off the coast of Santa Barbara since 1969, and was called on it by Media Matters and Keith Olbermann.  He didn't like that much, so he called upon his pals at the American Enterprise Institute to bail him out.  Needless to say, they lied too.

• This conversation between Greg Lucas of California's Capitol and Bill Lockyer is well worth reading.  His main point is that hijackings like Abel Maldonado throwing Constitutional amendments into the budget process are just going to embolden obstructionists in the Yacht Party in the future.