Images from Obama’s initial stops on his tour of Asia:

Jon Stewart: Spare us a show trial — can’t we just wrap Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in bacon and deep fry him at a state fair while Lee Greenwood stabs him in the face with a fork? Watch.

Sarah Palin and Barbara Walters. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Watch.

Senate progressives held a meeting last night with Sen. Reid (D-NV) in which they told him they weren’t willing to compromise any more on the Public Option. Meanwhile, it looks like the CBO will probably (though no guarantee) release its scoring of the senate health care bill today. That’s what the six centrist and conservative Dems have been waiting on to show their hand. So that should kick off the next round of health care reform politicking.

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), on health care reform vote: “You’re going to have detractors on either side, no matter what you do. So I think in the end you have to what you think is right.” That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.

We knew accused Florida fraudster/attorney Scott Rothstein was a big Charlie Crist contributor and spread it around to other Republicans and Democrats alike, but we didn’t know, until now, that he’d given a whopping $200,000 to the Republican Governors Association. The group is not commenting.

Just to give you the flavor of this interview, Bill O’Reilly wraps it up with this question of Lou Dobbs: “Barack Obama — is he the devil?” Watch.

Glenn Beck says the Dems are raping the American people with health care like Roman Polanski.

Seems the AP got it wrong reporting that the Bureau of Prisons is still considering the Hardin, MT jail as a potential site to house the Gitmo prisoners.

Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) is so upset with Mayor Bloomberg saying that New York City is up the challenge of trying the 9/11 plotters that he’s basically taunting the mayor with the prospect of his daughter being kidnapped by al Qaeda.