Since this is 40% politics and 60% entertainment, I'm putting this here. http://slate.msn.com/id/2083138/ This article is pretty much the exact reason why I never watch morning news-o-tainment shows like "Today". I would say something like "who do the NBC people think they are fooling with this crap?" as the author implies, but I know only too well that for every dork willing to get up at 5am to drag a "Otumwa, Iowa in the house!Hi mom!" sign down to Rockefeller Center to be on this televised insult to national intelligence, there are 4 more where he came from. Among other quotes from the article: Lauer and Stone Phillips are so insincere it hurts to watch them.
I will never understand why my wife watches this. Put it on CNN, at least! When I was single I got to watch the previous evening's Daily Show on my TiVo over breakfast. Now it's Matt and Katie. Sigh.
Join the Whipped my friend. Wait 'till the kids come. At least it ain't Elmo's world. Come to think of it. Katie has been on Sesame Street...