From CC Insider…

Stephen Colbert went on Late Show with David Letterman last night to promote the paperback edition of I Am America (And So Can You!) (now with even more paper!) The best part was when Colbert called Obama the Meryl Streep of Presidents. Does that make Joe Biden the Melanie Griffith of Vice Presidents? Yes, yes it does.

Another day, another dude copping to penis-related shenanigans. What else is new? Wake me when they find the bodies under Glenn Beck's porch. Well, here's the latest…

David Letterman said on "The Late Show," on CBS, that he had been approached by a person who wanted $2 million not to go public with information that Mr. Letterman had been in sexual relationships with women who work on his show.

Mr. Letterman said that he had testified before a grand jury and had admitted to the relationships.

"My response to that is, yes I have. Would it be embarrassing if it were made public? Perhaps it would," he said on the show. "I feel like I need to protect these people. I need to certainly protect my family."

Yawn. As far as penis-related shenanigans goes, I give this one a 3 on the Sanford scale, if that, and let's say a .001 on the Edwards scale. Besides, the program aired almost twelve hours ago and Sarah Palin still hasn't written a Facebook note about it, so really, it can't be all that important.

Here's Gladstone's take on the whole Letterman/Palin stupidfest…

I haven't been officially diagnosed as possessing a third-grade-level intellect, I have strong opinions about media and politics, and I loooooove filling out Internet polls.

Where's The New York Daily News?!

What depresses me the most is the 2 percent of people who couldn't even grasp the concept of what was being asked, but still took the time to respond and let everyone know how confused they were.

America is the greatest country in the universe!

I'm almost tempted to suggest that this whole protest thing is some kind of brilliantly hilarious viral marketing campaign for The Late Show with David Letterman.

Except there's no way that David Letterman's writers could have come up with anything this funny…

Update: Salon's editing team seems to have a less keen ear for comedic timing…

I was wrong…

There are people right now flooding the streets of Tehran and facing beatings and death to protest their stolen civil right to choose their political leaders.

Meanwhile, in New York, a bunch of people are protesting an idiotic joke for which a late night talk show host already apologized and then had then his apology accepted by the offended politician.

It's so nice to live in a country in which we have the luxury of being totally moronic for the sake of moronicness.

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