Tonight’s Rachael Maddow show (she was on vacation and the guy from The Nation was on) had a piece on TSA airport security coverage that was the first I've seen that gets to the sources (and motivations) of some of the backlash issues and the people behind some of the things that are being discussed. Some points were brought up about some of the far-right's contributions via Rand Paul for one.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#40326939
On the Lawrence O’Donnell show, there was a very compelling piece with a man that went through horrible experience as someone going through a pat-down as a post cancer surgery patient that wears a urostomy bag. This fits with the other story of the woman with a breast prosthetic.
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/vid...ord&FORM=VIRE5
A CBS link-
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n7078699.shtml
Both of these pieces bring to light the various concerns people have, but also expose both the pure nonsense being spread as well as the very painful experiences of this man's pat-down humiliation along with an idiot TSA representative. How TSA/government employees are being portrayed as part of right-wingers wanting the privatization of airport security is brought up as well as clips of Fox News inviting guests that advocate racial profiling as the answer for security.
Kind of kaleidoscope of the issues... The good, the bad and the ugly.. There are some very salient arguments on both sides of this and there is also a lot of politics in the mix. A lot of politics!