What you are seeing here is Arianna Huffington, Stephen Baldwin, Jim Norton and—as required by law—Meghan McCain talk about crucial politics things with Jay Leno, who is apparently living out some nascent Bill Maher fantasy, what with the newsy roundtable. It is a disaster, especially the zeitgesity David Letterman part. Arianna talks about having affairs with married people, and then our Meg says something about how her dad is John McCain, and how awkward this makes sex!!, or something. There are about 90 elephants in the room… which reminds your Wonkette Editor: NEW ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for comments of a certain strain about young Meg’s physical appearance. She is an impressionable young brilliant Republican strategist! [video at HuffPost]

It’s probably happening on his radio show, right now, or whenever it’s on: fat Rush Limbaugh burping and groaning as he feasts on the roasted carcass of 97-year-old “Rockefeller Republican” Roberta McCain, John McCain’s lovely “gaffe-prone” mum, who told Jay Leno last night that she simply does not care for this Rush Limbaugh. [Ben Smith]

Here is your Minneapolis man Prince, on the Jay Leno (!) show, just cold singing about AIG and income inequality and hard times and such, with an honest “but me” when he mentions the old neighborhood. Good or bad? We are not sure! Not bad, though. Dylan and his three gospel singers, pretty much, 1979, + Stevie Wonder harmonica, Joe Strummer guitar toss, ice cold. Uhm. OPEN THREAD. [via Tony Pierce]

Hey all you elite cocktail-sipping Georgetown dandies gumming your cucumber sandwiches at tea time: Barack Obama is NOT overexposing himself with the daily live-teevee appearances and “town halls” and Jay Leno guest spots. In fact, this is how you make Americans love you, in this country. You just show up on every teevee show, laughing weirdly, dancing, saying vaguely untrue things, smiling, etc., and then your approval ratings just go up, up, up. MORE »

All the networks are bummed about having to carry his boring ad-free economy lectures during prime time, but goodness gracious Barack Obama is the KING of after-hours interview show programming. His interview with Jay Leno last night got the dumb show its highest rating since Seinfeld’s final episode 11 years ago. President Obama must quit his day job immediately. [ArtsBeat Blog]

Here’s some “teaser” video of your boyfriend Barack Obama on Conan O’Brien’s new teevee talk show, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. Did you watch this Leno guy? WHY? MORE »

No clue who this person is, but yeah, it’s happened. You knew this article would be written eventually, or maybe you didn’t, because of the lack of sense being made. Basically this lady wrote speeches for George H.W. Bush and loved attending the secret media Gridiron Club dinner, then, but now Barack Obama has declined that invitation while accepting an invitation to this televised clown program. She seems to think that his appearance on Leno will be as a stand-up comic… but that’s not really how it’ll work, Miss Lady? You know? [US News]

OMG OBAMA WILL BE ON JAY LENO!! “Many Americans will get their ‘first look’ at the president during this program which usually comes on after the local sports broadcast. What will they think?” [AOL Political Machine]

How many times has John McCain told this awful joke about sleeping like a baby? (He goes to sleep for two hours and wakes up crying, wokka wokka.) Answer: ONE MILLION TIMES. But now that he is not threatening to run our country, he does not seem so terrible! He is a pleasant, sassy older gentleman, the distant relative you like sitting next to at Thanksgiving dinner, until he has one too many glasses of sherry and starts telling you about the hot Jewess he dated back in Casablanca, during the war. [The Tonight Show]

• We interrupt this “coverage” of the 2008 Democratic National Convention to report that John “Walnuts” McCain, when asked by Jay Leno this evening how many houses he owns, responded in a serious tone, “I spent 5½ years in a prison cell; I didn’t have a house.” It is unknown whether the studio audience laughed in response.

Remember last summer when “real conservatives” were pushing actor Fred Thompson to run for president so as to save the Republican party from the several gay divorcee Mormon liberals also running? And he was like “yeah sure, probably I’ll run or whatever” but didn’t really announce until September, on the Jay Leno program, during a Republican debate that he was too lazy to attend? Well it was during that “probably” time that he launched “imwithfred.com,” his proto-campaign website. And after everyone realized Fred Thompson was a lazy douche and couldn’t win anything, Fred’s people sold this domain name to a bunch of Italian gambling e-entrepreneurs, as you can see in the screen capture above. Vote “Italian Gamblers” for president, the real Republican’s alternative to WALNUTS! [I'm With Fred via The November Blog]