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That’s what “Today” show co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Natalie Morales, along with guest LaToya Jackson -- who just had been eliminated from “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” -- learned how to do one morning last week in the “Doing It Right Today” segment of the show.
. . . “Where we show you the best way to do almost anything,” Guthrie said in her introduction.
. . . Their instructor was Courtenay Smith, executive editor at Reader’s Digest who, I guess, had nothing better to do.

In listing the Sunday morning talk shows Mediabistro, a website featuring various blogs, job postings and news about the broadcast industry, writer Betsy Rothstein made a comment about the sexual makeup of the “roundtables” of the talkers – the pundits, the talking heads -- to see “how many females are fairing …”
. . . And how many “schlongs” they’re planning to have on this week.

. . . Paula Broadwell said, “I was embedded with Gen. David Petraeus in Afghanistan.”
. . . Good choice of words.

. . . The soccer player is underwear modeling for H&M, sporting his David Beckham Bodywear briefs, longjohns and tank tops (along with his many tattoos) in print ads and on TV.
. . . Half-naked.
. . . In your face.

. . . Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon with the news of her alleged departure from the Today show or, as they wish to have it called, “Today,” so that it enters the conversational lexicon as a stand-alone, like a rock star who goes by a single name, i.e., Madonna, Cher, Rihanna.
. . . What a distinction.
. . . She never should have been chosen to replace Meredith Vieira -- who wasn’t that good doing the job -- which is merely hosting a bunch of self-promoters and some people in the news.