And That's The Way It Is: Meredith Vieira's Smackdown

• Click here to watch Meredith Vieira talk over John McCain and John McCain talk over Meredith Vieira.
  
  
• Larry Mendte was officially charged today for being a bad, bad boy in the continually developing Alycia Lane drama. Lifetime movie to come.
  
  
• Kyra Philips gets lauded with an award.
  
  
• Read an excerpt of the NY Time's David Carr's new memoir, Night of the Gun. It's like Less Than Zero, but in a much less annoying Brett Easton Ellis way.
  
  
• Apparently, Ann Curry can always turn to stand-up if this whole Today Show thing fails.