Maybe Tucker Carlson had a little extra time on his hands...

... since his show Crossfire was canceled by CNN, but wow, anyone else catch his debut on the Dancing with the Stars Season Premier?

The judges agreed Carlson had a lot of fun during his performance on the “Dancing” premiere, for which Carlson temporarily donned the iconic bow tie that once defined his on-air personality. But the compliments stopped there.

“What an awful mess,” judge Bruno Tonioli decreed, comparing Carlson’s dance to sitting on a toilet and punishing him with a score of three out of 10.

Carlson was undaunted.

“I’m going to win Bruno over,” Carlson responded. “The seeds of affection are there and once he marinates in me a little bit, we’ll be friends.”

Righttttt, and that's exactly what right-wing pols are telling themselves after taking a look at their numbers.

Speaking of numbers, I also saw the first "Arnold is for George W. Bush. Is he for you?" (in a negative way, of course) ad by the CA Democratic Party. It was kind of shallow because Arnold's been distancing himself from Bush (and even I admit that they're two very different people with different leadership styles) and it seemed like the Democratic Party was so desperate to beat Schwarzenegger that they'd try to blame the national debt, Iraq war, and oil prices on the Governor of California. Quite amusing, in that disillusioning way that only politics can present.

Oh, and the picture of the day:



By the way, I object to ABC's use of "journalist" to describe Tucker Carlson.