First Lady of the small screen Betty White yesterday "popped in" for an unscheduled visit with President Barack Obama while in DC for a speaking engagement at the Smithsonian.

The political gaffe, once something that had the power to ruin careers and destroy campaigns, can now come and go in a single day. Since that's exactly what happened with something President Obama said the other day, Jon Stewart took a moment on tonight's Daily Show to take us through the life cycle of the political gaffe.

Barack Obama's critics on the left and right are beginning to coalesce around the idea that the White House should be punished for selectively leaking flattering details about covert operations while at the same time zealously prosecuting whistleblowers who reveal less flattering secrets. This is stupid. Every leak is a good leak.

Last week, the New York Times ran a 5,000-word article on the Obama administration's "secret" drone assassination program that might as well have been accompanied by the cheery clip art that comes with brochures on STDs from the free clinic.

Look, we all wish we could speak to Barack Obama directly — and thanks to the magic of Twitter, sometimes we pretend that we do. But we accept (hopefully) that he's a busy guy, currently working on getting reelected, and he probably doesn't have time to read all our pleas.

OK, so it's not actually the President singing Carly Rae Jepsen's oh-God-why-can't-I-stop-listening-to-this hit, but it's definitely the next best thing.

The Obama campaign is not mincing words: the Republicans want the economy to fail.

It's not every day you get a chance to see President Obama speak — and it's even rarer to watch him get introduced by your dad. That's why fifth grader Tyler Sullivan made the wise choice to skip school and head to the Honeywell factory where his dad, Ryan Sullivan, works.

The last thing I wanted to do on Memorial Day was think about soldiers. As Chris Hayes discovered, there are no good outcomes to examining American soldiery with more than one opinion: Awesome!

Since 2002, America has been killing people — terrorists, or, at least, people that American intelligence believes are terrorists — with missiles shot out of Predator drones, mostly in Pakistan, but also in Yemen and Somalia. They're precise, but only up to a point; anyone nearby is likely to die as well. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism places the number of civilian deaths between 500 and 1000.

On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a look at the recent revelations surrounding Obama's "kill list," and all the logical leaps that keep down the stats about civilian deaths. Turns out these numbers are pretty easy to rig as long as you completely divorce yourself from reality first.

Thirteen people, living and dead, were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor (after Universal Royalty Ultimate Grand Supreme, 4-8-Year-Old Division) on Tuesday. One of those people was Bob Dylan and the other twelve weren't Bob Dylan.

Socialism has become an often used epithet by Fox News types when needing to bash Obama. As Jon Stewart points out on tonight's Daily Show, there's just a wee bit of hypocrisy in these attacks as many people on the right, Mitt Romney especially, have espoused socialist views, just about different things.

Tonight Mitt Romney said that he doesn't agree with all of his supporters, but he still appreciates their help in his eventual victory. The elephant in the room is that one of his loudest (and richest) supporters, Donald Trump, is once again spouting his birther nonsense about President Obama.

To commemorate Memorial Day, President Obama attended a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where he placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns.

Rudy Giuliani may be officially supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but that doesn't mean he thinks Romney's achievements trump his own.

On tonight's Real Time, Bill Maher closed with a rant about the claim that President Obama is radical in his views. It makes little sense to Maher that the right has such a problem with Obama when Obama hasn't exactly been the bastion of liberal ideology some thought he would be.

BuzzFeed's Gavon Laessig got his hands on an early copy of the upcoming Barack Obama biography penned by Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

Revealed in yesterday's New York Times is the backstory to one of the more iconic White House photos shot by resident photographer Pete Souza: President Obama's hair being stroked by then-five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia.

This Sunday, Newark Mayor Cory Booker went on NBC's Meet the Press, home of David Gregory's meatball pitch to right-handed batters, and called Barack Obama's attacks on Mitt Romney's Bain Capital record "nauseating."