We got a kick out of this item in the Post TV column today:

CBS, the network that gave us the Nipple That Knicker-Knotted a Nation, now brings us the Peekaboo Penis.

The self-appointed watchdog group Parents Television Council has filed an indecency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over the season debut of “Survivor: Gabon” — ironically the first episode of this series to be broadcast in high-definition.

If you look closely at participants in a race, you see Marcus Lehman’s little colonel “falling out” of his boxer shorts as he runs to the finish line, PTC reports. “The image was not obscured in any way,” PTC notes in disgust. In fairness, the episode had a lot of pixelation — just not of Lehman’s male pride.

“Although this instance was brief, it was nonetheless shocking and purposeful,” PTC President Tim Winter said in a statement.

CBS, in a statement, insisted it was “a completely unintentional, inadvertent and fleeting incident that was virtually undetectable when viewed in real time.” “Fleeting” was the word of choice when the Super Bowl Nipplegate story broke, too. “In the first 24 hours after the broadcast, before freeze-frame images were widely posted online, we received one viewer comment from the 13 million who watched the telecast,” the network said.

PTC had this to say about that:

“CBS’s decision to hide behind excuses that the incident was ‘fleeting’ and didn’t generate an immediate flood of complaints is the epitome of irresponsibility. The number of ‘fleeting’ penises we expect to see on broadcast television is zero.”

When we read “fleeting penises” in the Post, we immediately had a flashback to our youthful glory days when this song came out …

Now we’re just happy to reprise this ancient Extreme Mortman joke: I’m so proud of my circumcision, you might say I have hu-bris.

Reliable Source provides this round-up:

“Now the Wall Street crony capitalists have put a 700-pound, billion-dollar bag of dung on taxpayers’ doorsteps, rung the bell and expect you to thank them when you answer it.”

– Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)

“This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it, and I’m not going to eat that cow patty.”

– Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga).

All fun.  But not as fun as John Boehner:

In a closed-door session with House Republicans Sunday evening, Minority Leader John A. Boehner called the $700 billion financial rescue deal a “crap sandwich.”

… even Sarah Palin

… even when we’ve gone too far.

Some examples of pro-Sarah Palin messaging that might need, well, revisiting.

Newt Gingrich:

“So she has a lot of interesting background. And she has a lot of experience. Remember that, when people worry about how inexperienced she is, for two years she’s been in charge of the Alaska National Guard.”

Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-MN):

“She’s become governor. And let’s take a look what she did. The former governor of Alaska, she took his plane, sold it on eBay.”

Keith Olbermann, previewing Barack Obama’s speech last night at Invesco Field:

“I’m wondering, we`re touching on something really subliminal in culture. I look at this shot now, I guess, based on too many years in sports and it looks like a blimp shot. It looks like an overhead shot at the NBA finals and if anything, it makes the player down in the middle of this case, a soon to be presidential nominee, looked smaller than life, not bigger than life. I mean, are we seeing this from two different — the same cultural phenomenon from two different angles?”

An awe-inspiring correction in today’s Washington Post:

“An Aug. 22 Business article about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac incorrectly said Fannie Mae is withdrawing from the market for ‘all-day loans.’  Fannie Mae is withdrawing from the market for “Alt-A loans’” …

Washington Post:

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted “Unabomber,” is upset that his Montana cabin, where he was eventually captured, is part of a display at the Newseum….

“I recently received a page from the Washington Post, June 19, 2008, page A9. This comprises a full-page, full-color advertisement that features my cabin, which is being exhibited publicly at something called a ‘Newseum,’ ” Kaczynski wrote, using careful printing. “Since the advertisement states that the cabin is ‘FROM FBI VAULT,’ it is clear that the government is responsible for the public exhibition of the cabin. This has obvious relevance to the victims’ objection to publicity connected with the Unabom case.”

“Something called a ‘Newseum’”?  Wait’ll he hears about the admission fee.

In the Washington Post.  In a John McCain story.  On the beach.  With a hookah.  Like this:

At the Twilight Hookah Lounge, owned by Nadia and Shawn Abdalla, patrons smoke tobacco flavored with honey and fruit from a menu that includes the strawberry-flavored Sex on the Beach and the strong, orange-flavored Fuzzy Navel.

Politico:

“I have always loved longitude,” Nancy Pelosi says before breaking into laughter. “I love latitude; it’s in the stars. But longitude, it’s about time. … Time and clocks and all the rest of that have always been a fascination for me.”

Barack Obama meeting Hill Democrats yesterday, according to Dana Milbank:

Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, “This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for,” adding: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”