From HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday:

MAHER: Rich Lowry, who's the editor of the National Review -- it's kind of a serious publication -- listen to what he said. He said: "Palin projects through the screen like crazy." He said, "I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when she started dropping her first wink, sat up a little straighter in my couch." "And her smile it was so sparkling, it sent little starbursts through the screen."

Said Maher: "This man needs to get laid so badly."

From Hotline's Friday Feature:

Lara Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs corr., has been reporting from war zones over the past 17 years. Before joining CBS in '02, Logan already had 14 years of journalism experience, including 10 years in the int'l broadcast news arena. She got her start in broadcast journalism in Africa as a sr. prod. for Reuters TV. But today Logan's our Friday Feature: ...

What's your most embarrassing on-the-job moment? (Or as embarrassing as you'd like to reveal?)

There was an upset in the crowd during a big Iraqi government and U.S. tour of a village north of Baghdad and I jumped up onto the front of a U.S. military humvee. As I propelled myself upwards, my pants split and the entire left side dropped out, exposing my butt to crowds of Iraqis and soldiers. The medic had to wrap a bandage around my leg and patch me up...

From CNN:

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): Palin and the pundits. The media verdict: Sarah Palin did far better against Joe Biden than with Katie Couric. But do journalists care that Palin ignored many of the debate questions? And did Gwen Ifill silence her critics with her performance?

The price of candor. The conservative columnist who called Palin an embarrassment and was showered with abuse.

Man in the middle. Bob Schieffer on the pressures of moderating the final presidential debate next week.

Plus, the vote that sunk the markets. Covering the congressional crossfire over the diving Dow.

Read the rest here.

Earlier on FishbowlDC: Ian Cameron Is New "This Week" EP

An internal memo from ABC's David Westin, obtained by FishbowlDC:

I'm pleased to announce that Ian Cameron has been named executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos.  Ian has 23 years of broadcast journalism experience, and he lives and breathes politics. His editorial acumen and knowledge of Washington will be an enormous asset to the program.
For the past seven years Ian has served as the Washington senior producer for World News with Charles Gibson. He began his career at ABC News in 1998 as a producer for World News with Peter Jennings, where he managed an investigative team of reporters and led the editorial direction for the show's popular Your Money segments. Ian was a part of the ABC News team recognized with a Peabody Award for coverage of 9/11 and the events that followed.
Please join me in congratulating Ian on his new role.

Tammy Haddad sits down with CBS' Bob Schieffer for National Journal:

Q: What did you think about the criticism about Gwen Ifill writing a book with Obama's name in the title?

Schieffer: You know, I thought that was a little bit of a bad rap. I mean -- and all I know about this is what I've literally read in the papers, but it's my understanding this book is still in manuscript. It hasn't even been set in type yet. She's about in the middle of it and as it was explained to me, this is not a book about Barack Obama; it's a book about black politicians and the gains they have made in recent years. So I thought that was a little bit of an unfair charge against her.

From Meet the Press:

MR. BROKAW: There you go. When she said--and you asked her a question and she completely ignored it...

MS. IFILL: More than ignored it.

MR. BROKAW: More than ignored it and said, you know...

MS. IFILL: She blew me off, I think, is the technical term.

MR. BROKAW: ..."I'm just going to talk directly to the American people."

MS. IFILL: Yeah.

And:

MR. BROKAW: Yeah. Well, and I could very well be the target of that because coming up Tuesday night--I think we have to explain to our audience--you are in the process of writing a book, which will come out in January, about the change in American politics, especially among African-American leaders...

MR. IFILL: Right.

MR. BROKAW: ...in which you call the "Age of Obama." And there were people on the right who said that disqualifies you as a moderator for the vice presidential debate. But what you did was keep your head high and not to respond those attacks.

MS. IFILL: I kind of kept my head low, actually. But, but, but no, that's the truth. I did not respond to it because it didn’t take much to figure out what the book was really about. I mean, it didn't take but a couple of mouse clicks to discover that what they were saying about the book wasn't true and that, in fact, I wasn't writing the book they said, and I hadn't--I hadn't even written the Obama chapter yet because I don’t know how it ends. So I--my editors are thinking, "Really, have you written it? Good, give it to us. We'd like to see it." So they used that, and it wasn't really much worth fighting about. I figured it would be a 24-hour kerfuffle. But it was instructive about how often you can get in the way of somebody else's plan.

On Ifill's "Washington Week":

And I want to assert moderator's privilege to say a special word of thanks to everyone who sent me so many kind words and offered support in a week when I moderated a debate, celebrated a bithday, broke my ankle and briefly became the story myself. All I can say is, 'Thank God it's Friday.'

And, SNL's skit:

That's how many people watched Thursday's Palin/Biden debate, according to Nielsen. This makes it the second most watched debate (prez or veep) ever (tied with the 1992 Clinton/Bush/Perot debate and falling short of the 1980 Carter/Reagan debate). Also: More women (35.7 million) watched the debate than men (30.4 million).

...we hear...announcement expected Monday...Cameron replaces Katherine O'Hearn.