Yes, I know I’m late getting to this. Occasionally work or my outside life interferes with blogging reality and I have to get picky about what I’ll cover and this week was one of those weeks with a home system debug and rebuild…

Every once in a while there’s something unexpected that happens on Live TV on cable news. I’m not talking about graphical glitch or a satellite feed konking out; the usual suspects. I’m talking about something truly unexpected. Such a thing occurred yesterday when Shepard Smith interviewed Drew Petersen live and asked a question Petersen wasn’t expecting. Petersen reacted by ending the interview and walking back into his house. Video here (in case you’ve been living under a rock)

The AP writes about the incident here.

The Chicago Tribune’s Phil Rosenthal also writes about the story.

Newsbusters Noel Sheppard blogs about Keith Olbermann’s new hobby at Daily Kos…

Imagine for a moment Fox News’s Brit Hume or Chris Wallace regularly contributing to a popular conservative website like Captain’s Quarters, Little Green Footballs, or Michelle Malkin.com.

Do you think the media would have a field day with a supposedly “fair and balanced” anchorman being so intricately connected to such a rightwing entity?

Post your submissions to this week’s What’s hot/What’s not. I’ll post the finalists on Sunday night…

The New York Times’ Seth Schliesel writes about the blowback from the Mass Effect story on The Live Desk…

In an interview on Friday, Ms. Lawrence said that since the controversy over her remarks erupted she had watched someone play the game for about two and a half hours. “I recognize that I misspoke,” she said. “I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke.

“Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,” she added. “But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.”

Electronic Arts, the giant publisher that owns Mass Effect, has asked Fox News for a correction. A Fox News spokesman would say only that Electronic Arts had been offered a chance to appear on the channel. An Electronic Arts spokesman said the company had not yet decided whether to accept the offer.