Jobs, The Future And Salmon: Key Words From State Of The Union
Good morning.
Before we move on to other top stories, let's take a quick look at how last night's State of the Union address by President Obama is being portrayed in headlines:
— NPR: "Obama: 'Our Destiny Remains Our Choice' "
— The Wall Street Journal: "Obama Gears Up for a Global Challenge"
— Los Angeles Times: "Obama says U.S. acts 'together, or not at all' "
— Chicago Sun-Times: "Jobs are president's job No. 1"
— The New York Times: "Obama Pitches Global Fight for U.S. Jobs in Address"
— The Washington Post: " 'Win the future,' Obama implores"
— Politico: "In bipartisan tones, Barack Obama challenges GOP"
— The Weekly Standard (conservative): "Not A Winning Speech"
— The Huffington Post (liberal) " 'Our Destiny Remains Our Choice' "
And then there's the challenge that NPR put to its Facebook fans to sum up the address in three words. The thousands of submissions were made into a word cloud and this is what it looked like:

Salmon? Oh, yeah. Folks were remembering the funny moment when Obama got laughs from the lawmakers for saying this:
"We live and do business in the Information Age, but the last major reorganization of the government happened in the age of black-and-white TV. There are 12 different agencies that deal with exports. There are at least five different agencies that deal with housing policy. Then there's my favorite example: The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they're in saltwater. I hear it gets even more complicated once they're smoked."
Courtesy of C-SPAN.org's video library, here's what it looked and sounded like when the president talked about salmon: