With Barack Obama having cleared the Democratic field for the 2012 presidential election, we're forced to turn to the Republicans for kooky pre-primary entertainment. Thus, until Mitt Romney bring his Eddie van Halen-signed axe to Meet the Press, or Sarah Palin challenges Carrie Prejean to a baton-twirling duel (for charity!), we'll have to make do with this cognitively dissonant video of your American Idol, Kris Allen, jamming out to the Beatles while accompanied by Mike Huckabee on bass guitar.
Would the gay-for-Rolling-Stone Adam Lambert have consented to such a spectacle, or would he instead have made his cable news debut on The Rachel Maddow Show (with the bespectacled host providing backup on an electric cello)? We may never know, thanks to AT&T. Enjoy: