With Sarah Palin having now appeared, this week alone, on Oprah, Barbara Walters, the Home Shopping Network, Law & Order, Everyone Loves Raymond, CSI, Family Guy, and Jon & Kate Plus Eight, we figure it might be a good time to spend much of today's Talk of the Nation Junkie segment on the former Alaska governor and potential 2012 presidential candidate.

Matthew Continetti, author of the new book, The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star, will join the program, along with me, who will do his level best to try and bring down Matthew Continetti. (OK, I'm kidding.)

Plus: the latest count on New York 23, the Bill Jefferson story goes from the freezer to the slammer, and Robert Byrd makes (more) history on Capitol Hill.

Join host Neal Conan and me every Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET for the Junkie segment on TOTN, where you can often, but not always, find interesting conversation, useless trivia questions and sparkling jokes. And you can win a Political Junkie T-shirt! (Neal is on assignment in Fort Myers, Fla., today — Rebecca Roberts is the substitute host.)

And speaking of Political Junkie t-shirts: TOTN producer David Gura has been soliciting photographs of previous trivia winners wearing their shirts and has put together a Wall of Shame for others to, um, admire.

If you must, you can hear last week's program, with special guest Nancy Keenan of NARAL, here.

If your local NPR station doesn't carry TOTN, you can hear the program on the Web or on HD Radio. And if you are a subscriber to XM/Sirius radio, you can find the show there as well (siriusly).

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