The TV President. Barack Obama is all up in your television set: he’ll be on the December 8th episode of “Mythbusters” that tests a previously busted Archimedes myth, and next Wednesday he’ll become the first sitting president to appear on “The Daily Show.” Yay, I just can’t get enough politics in my TV watching.

Endangered animals make Don Draper sad. An A-Z guide on endangered animals and the A-holes who keep killing them. [Uproxx]

The new trailer for Scream 4 (I refuse to write Scre4m). “In the trailer, new Scream expository dialogue guys Rory Culkin and Erik Knudsen explain to us the rules of the modern horror movie, which are themselves a parody of old horror movie rules, which the original Scream parodied.  The new movie, which is itself a parody, promises to parody those new rules, which are themselves parodies, as well as being a worthy parody of the original Scream, which was of course a parody.” [FilmDrunk]

Goodbye, beloved violence. The NFL faces a thorny dilemma in dialing back the number of concussions caused by the game. [With Leather]

Oh great, robotic jetpacks. The next step in this story: Skynet becomes self-aware. [Gamma Squad]

Guh. In case you haven’t seen it yet: the video for nine-year-old Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair.” It features a lot of hair-whipping. [Smoking Section]

Starz is the next HBO. This is a terrific profile on Starz CEO Chris Albrecht, the charismatic mastermind who oversaw the start of HBO’s original programming before publicly choking his girlfriend in Las Vegas and getting fired in 2007. [GQ]

CW making ‘Glee’ copycat. It’s about a musical summer camp, and I can’t wait to not watch it. [Deadline]

Stephen Colbert jokingly walks off ‘The View.’ This is pretty dull to me, but everybody else seems to be posting it, so here you go. Video below.

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At 2 p.m. Eastern today, CBS will debut “The Talk,” a direct competitor to “The View” that, by its mere existence, automatically sucks less than ABC’s Insanity Roundtable. Starring in the new show are (from left) “Big Brother” host Julie Chen, former “King of Queens” (and “Saved by the Bell”) star Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert (Darlene from “Roseanne”), Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete, and a young Kathy Najimy (or Marissa Jaret Winokur from Hairspray).

What makes the show different from “The View” — aside from the hosts being younger and less unattractive — is that they’ll apply the subjects through a unifying lens of motherhood:

That means discussions on subjects such as bullying, spanking and lying to your kids will dominate — “everything you would talk about if you sat with your group of friends over coffee,” says executive producer (and mom of two) Gilbert, 35, who conceived The Talk as a kind of national mothers’ group… “I totally respect The View and I think it’s flattering to be compared to it, but I definitely think this is a different show.” [USA Today]

What I find especially remarkable about “The Talk” is that the panel features a Scientologist (Remini) and a former rock groupie whose son is a drug addict (Osbourne), and I’m still like, “Wow, what a huge step up from ‘The View’. These women will have MUCH more informed opinions.”

Today in “TV clips that will make you dumber,” Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set of “The View” (video below) after guest Bill O’Reilly badgered them with his prickly brand of political discourse. Which is a nice way of saying, “He was a real dick and engaged in typical right-wing Muslim-baiting.” Not that I’m sticking up for any of the women on “The View.” All of these people are awful, and no part of this video should be watched by anyone who enjoys intelligent and thoughtful debate.

This is why I spend all day making cat Photoshops and looking at pictures of naked women. It’s more spiritually fulfilling and intellectually challenging than political discussion in America.

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President Barack Obama will take a break from leading the country into oblivion/a golden age (choose one) on Wednesday to film a segment on ABC’s “The View,” the country’s most important talk show for adult women who regularly vote… for “Dancing with the Stars” contestants.

Obama will appear on female chat show “The View” on Thursday, in what the ABC network said on Monday was the first appearance by a sitting U.S. president on a daytime TV talk show.

Obama’s July 29 appearance will be taped on Wednesday. He will be asked about jobs, the economy, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and family life inside the White House, ABC said in a statement. [Reuters/Yahoo]

He can probably also expect a line of questioning about his middle name, birthplace, and religion from Elizabeth Hasselbeck. That bitch is crazier than a sh*thouse  rat in a straitjacket. And you HAVE to be extra crazy to stand out on a panel where you’re not the black woman defending Mel Gibson. Those women are the New York Yankees of crazy.

If you’re reading this blog, you’re almost certainly familiar with the ongoing Mel Gibson chronicles. But in case you haven’t been following FilmDrunk’s excellent coverage, Gibson has expanded his previous “sugartits/Jew-blaming” policy to include liberal use of the N-word and C-word, referring to Mexicans as “wetbacks,” and very specific and vehement demands for fellatio.

Yet Whoopi Goldberg, whom Mel Gibson could very easily call the N-Word and the C-word (he also might accuse her of controlling the banks because of her last name), stuck up for Gibson on “The View.”

“I know Mel, and I know he’s not a racist,” Whoopi said on ‘The View’ on Monday, seeming both earnest and cautious to weigh in. “I have had a long friendship with Mel. You can say he’s being a bonehead, but I can’t sit and say that he’s a racist having spent time with him in my house with my kids. I don’t like what he’s done, make no mistake.”

When Joy Behar asked if Goldberg considered Gibson anti-Semitic after his 2006 tirade against a Jewish police officer in LA , Goldberg began calling him “an ass” before stifling herself. Whoopi then pinpointed alcohol as the culprit. “Drunks say stupid stuff to people all the time — because they’re drunk, they’re out of control, they are not thinking, they are idiotic. I can’t say anything about people like that because I know what they’re like when they’re drunk. This rant? I don’t think he’s drunk on this rant.”

Whoopi concluded: “I’m not defending Mel. I’m simply saying I don’t see him as [a racist] because that’s not been my experience with him.” [Popeater]

Well, I think that’s a real feather in Mel’s cap. He doesn’t call black people “n***er” to their face.