In just a few hours, the winner of Dancing With the Stars' 11th season will finally be revealed. But just as speculation about the 2012 presidential election began months—if not weeks—after Barack Obama was elected in '08, the internet is already discussing which "celebrities" might learn to cha-cha in Season 12. One semi-surprising name that's being thrown around? Christine O'Donnell, the 2010 midterm elections' most-covered candidate.

The past couple of days, Glenn Beck has been explaining to his audience how they can broach the subject of "what's really going on" with friends and family members over Thanksgiving. Today, audience members were complaining about talking to people who were "oblivious" and "just don't get it" and "only get their news from popular shows." This gave Beck a chance to take a few swipes at his rally rivals, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

video Chris Matthews certainly seems less upset about the new TSA measures than a lot of the folks we've heard from. Instead, he thinks the Right has been "ginning up" the controversy and that the alternate would be worse, imagining the reaction "five minutes" after a terrorist attack if the Obama administration hadn't set up strict security measures. Really though, the reaction would be a thousand times worse if there was a terrorist attack with these protocols.

Cable news ratings, November 22, 2010: •Another disturbingly poor performance from CNN's Parker/Spitzer, which came in fourth among viewers 25-54 on Monday night, with less than half the audience of HLN's Nancy Grace, and barely 15 percent of the audience of Bill O'Reilly on Fox.

video As Reddit goes, so goes the Republican Party? Today both Rush Limbaugh and Mike Huckabee have gone on record as saying that President Obama should send his family through a TSA screening as a sign of good faith, which is the same thing a popular Internet campaign was saying last week. Who would have guessed that conservatives were actually getting their talking points from Reddit? Forget Sarah Palin. Lets look forward to Zach Anner in 2012!

video When it comes to the TSA and its "enhanced" security protocols, well Fox's Shepard Smith is going into Katrina mode--well, sort of. Put it this way: he's on fire. You may already have seen Shep warn that "if you touch my junk, I'm going to file a lawsuit against you," and he took his displeasure over "junk touching" pat downs directly to TSA Chief John Pistole.

video Well, if it worked for Betty White... The folks over at Sesame Workshop have uploaded an interesting video over on the Sesame Street Tumblr. Amidst the clips from the classic show (typically ones featuring celebrity guests that might appeal to the older viewers who are more likely to have Tumblr accounts) is a new video purporting to be Cookie Monster's homemade audition tape for Saturday Night Live complete with his own version of Weekend Update and an impression of Lady Gaga!

Brian Williams, fresh off his tour de force boneless arms routine on TODAY, now has something to be thankful for this week: his Nightly News has opened a big lead over second-placed ABC World News with Diane Sawyer:

developing All the major airports across the nation have been on heightened alert for their cargo areas since a UPS bomb threat from Yemen occurred last month. It appears that another cargo area is being investigated, this time at Boston's Logan Airport, confirm suspicions that there appears to be actionable intelligence among the nation's anti-terrorism efforts.

video Last night on the Tonight Show, Jay Leno played a version of a popular Internet video made by Rich Juzwiak and Kate Spencer for during an interview with Taylor Swift. Before the show, the producers promised Juzwiak that he and Spencer would receive credit, however, when the episode aired, they used a reedited version and Leno introduced it as something he and his staff "put together." Juzwiak isn't thrilled. And, like that, the Internet had a new reason to hate Jay Leno.

So, apparently one visit to Sarah Palin's Alaska was enough. After setting a ratings record for its debut episode a week ago, the second airing of TLC's reality show starring former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin plunged 40%--shedding about two million viewers.

video How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris is living the double-shot experience of raising six week old twins, and on The Talk yesterday, he admitted a lot of his great intentions have given way to the urgent desire to quiet two crying babies:

"At this point, we are like whatever it takes--a shot of whiskey, whatever--just stop fussing."

video In the 1970's and 80's the Philadelphia Spectrum was known for the high-flying dunks of Dr. J and the Philadelphia 76ers. Having opened in 1967, its 43 years service to Philadelphia sportsdom is now over, and today it suffers the inglorious fate that awaits most buildings: a ceremonial destruction. Because we are just days from the Holidays beginning and there is a dearth of non-Sarah Palin or junk touching news to report, day part cable news needs to find items to cover, regardless of they are worthy or not. Like, fore example, the demolition of the Spectrum, which was covered live on Fox News earlier today.

ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown crew of Stuart Scott, Matt Millen, and Steve Young added their two cents on the state of the Vikings yesterday…and there was some dissension among the ranks.

video In case you hadn't heard, Jim Carrey's got a new movie coming out, I Love You Phillip Morris, in which Carrey plays con man who escapes from Texas prisons four times. It's based on a true story, and oh, the other thing about Carrey's character is that he's gay, and in love with a man played by co-star Ewan McGregor. Enter David Letterman, and the lively chat Friday night starts to look like dinner at your grandparents when somebody mistakenly brings up politics. Silverware clanks onto the china.

video It may be one of the most gripping--or disturbing--passages in George W. Bush's new memoir: the tale of a turning point in young Bush's life. As the former president tells the story, when he was a teenager, his mother had a miscarriage and proceeded to show her son the fetus, which had been put in a jar to be taken to the hospital. Dubya says seeing the fetus awoke a pro-life passion that he ultimately carried into politics

video In what could have been called "Wendell Potter and the Death Panel Hallows," Countdown's Keith Olbermann arranged a first-time introduction between health insurance whistleblower Wendell Potter and Sicko director Michael Moore. The subject was Potter's participation in an industry effort to discredit Moore's universal healthcare opus, and while the exchange promised to be riveting, the result was rivetingly awkward.

video George Pataki recently joked that having started his political career as a small city mayor in New York, saying "“It was a challenging job, mayor of Peekskill, let me assure you,” adding: “Twice the size of Wasilla.” Not only was this seen as possible presidential rhetoric, but also a not-so-thinly veiled jab at former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Today he clarified these words and also offered insight on how he felt Ms. Palin could handle such a crisis as what's currently happening in the Korean Peninsula.

Think that there is far too much news about Bristol Palin's "controversial" success on the reality show Dancing With the Stars or TSA pat-downs? Well now there appears to be a real international crisis unfolding in the Korean peninsula. During South Korean maritime military drills, North Korea fired mortar shells towards the S. Korean troops, reportedly injuring 15 soldiers and killing two.

video Forget the usual sniping about MSNBC--Bill O'Reilly wants you to know Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow simply don't rate in one key area: global power domination. To wit: "There is no power at MSNBC to do anything. Here at Fox, we have emerged--and correct me if you think I'm wrong--but I think Fox News is the most powerful media agency in the world. Not just the country, but the world."