Meat Madness

NBC had more salami and bacon this week than it probably wanted.

On the MSNBC political debate show Hardball, always outspoken Howard Dean outdid himself with this comment about Bush and the Miers nomination: "You can't play hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to go out there and say something about this woman... We deserve to know something about her."

Meanwhile, actor Kevin Bacon is claiming the network nixed a scheduled interview with him after they discovered he was promoting a movie that includes a gay sex scene.

Speaking of touchy subjects, Katie Couric, forever the gamer, broadcast her mammogram examination on the Today show. When the examiner touched her breast she quipped: “And you didn’t even buy me dinner!”

Co-anchor David Gregory looked like he was about to gag on his sticky bun when she suggested that maybe next week she’d televise her pap-smear.