From HuffingtonPost: Coulter appeared on CBS's The Early Show where she told anchor Harry Smith that he was her favorite for having her on this morning after The Today Show had canceled her. WATCH the video after the jump.

Barack Obama insists he didn’t have any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or anyone else who might have been scheming to sell the president-elect’s U.S. Senate seat. But he has not yet given his transition staff the same clean bill of health — perhaps with good reason.

A House-passed bill to speed $14 billion in loans to Detroit’s automakers stands on shaky ground in a bailout-weary Congress, undermined by Republican opposition that could derail the emergency aid in the Senate.

From Ben Smith at Politico: The floating of the name of former Rep. James Ramstad as Obama's drug czar has drawn some fire in liberal drug policy circles, and today a black police organization writes Obama opposing it. Click here to read the letter.

From JANELLE JOLLEY at theroot.com: My erstwhile African-American-studies-minored self would love nothing more than to publish a dissertation on why <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/11/18/michelles_booty/index.html" target="_blank">this</a></span> piece in Salon, written by Erin Aubry Kaplan of the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, is destructive, superficial and historically unsound. But what would be the point? I would say how dare you continue the objectification of a black woman, but mostly what I want to do is scream in outrage. Click here for the full story.

From newser.com: Sarah Palin may not have earned the title of vice president, but a rumored book deal could net her as much $7 million, the Times of London reports.

With President-elect Barack Obama’s historic election run now complete, Atlanta rap star Ludacris is finally breaking his silence on Obama’s marked criticism of his July dedication song.

Reginald Hudlin, BET’s Director of Programming, will step down after a tumultuous history with the network. Hudlin left voluntarily, per reports from the network but had his feet to the flames after pushing some questionable shows to the foreground. From Greg Braxton of LA Times Blog:  Hudlin’s announced departure comes on the heels of critical acclaim […]