The most amusing collision between politics, pop culture, and journalism happened this week in Entertainment Weekly, when Michael Slezak wrote this about booted American Idol contestant Haley:

What can be said of Haley's take on Gloria Estefan's cover of Vickie Sue Robinson's ''Turn the Beat Around''? That it had as much Latin flavor as one of Newt Gingrich's appearances on Hannity & Colmes?

Adios, Haley. Now, if we could only get Sanjaya off...