Today, a White House intern fainted on LIVE C-SPAN on her first day of work. It’s only up from here.

Here's a great way to start your Tuesday: During a House Judiciary Committee meeting last week, Rep. Joe Garcia (D-FL) picked his ear, looked at the wax on his finger, and then ate it.

Yesterday we brought you a C-SPAN prank caller who asked New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Wayne MacDonald whether Mitt Romney had a large penis (he does). Turns out it was not an isolated incident. Here is a compilation, via Mediaite, of C-SPAN callers—actually one caller, it sounds like—working in references to Mitt Romney's penis over the air. The last one is positively brilliant. Mitt Romney has a huge penis.

This is simply no way to address New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Wayne MacDonald on his big day. He was not amused. Perhaps it was another sabotage from this notorious CSPAN prank caller? [Fishbowl DC via Raw Story]

Todd Seavey is a contributor to Proud to be Right, Jonah Goldberg's new collection of conservative essays. Seavey's ex-girlfriend, Helen Rittelmeyer, is also a contributor. Recently, they both appeared on C-SPAN2's Book TV to discuss. That's when things got weird.

Today we looked at the overabundance of black folks on C-Span (that's sarcasm, folks!), sparking a discussion about racism and other nasty prejudices. One commenter summed them all up nicely.

This C-Span caller is upset with how many black people keep calling into C-Span. But he has a helpful suggestion: "you should change your name from C-Span to black-span." The C-Span call-in host guy has a terrible job. [Via]

Alright! C-Span has "uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet"—160,000 hours in all. There's gotta be a video of Walter Mondale with his head stuck in a paper bag in there somewhere. [NYT]

Well, this is ironic. Moments after criticizing President Obama as "charismatic guy with a teleprompter" at the National Tea Party convention tonight, Sarah Palin sat down for a Q&A session—and appeared to read notes written on her hand.

After a weekend spent frantically preparing for a series of important health care votes, our nation's esteemed Senators are bickering, exhausted and undersexed. And about one bitch slap from breaking down on C-Span and begging to be sent home.

In your cooling Tuesday media column: Politico gets the hot scoop on human being David Frum, a public broadcasting station regrets its spending habits, sex and violence soldier on, and a media man passes on.

Remember Vivek Kundra, the White House chief geek who nicked shirts from J.C. Penney in his youth? In 2000, four years after his arrest, Barack Obama's future chief indiscretion officer played political fanboy.

Thaddeus McCotter (R-Michigan) spent his time on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday giving a little presentation called "How to Speak Democrat." For example, "progressive" means "regressive"! So witty! And the presentation (shown below) should in no way be seen as the sole thing McCotter has accomplished with his time while he only raised $8,500 of the nearly $1 million he's supposed to raise for the National Republican Congressional Committee.

New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is afraid that if she appears on C-Span she might reveal the paper's secret agenda to force abortions on everyone. [NYP]

"It's not every day that Brian Lamb uses the expression "dickhead' on the air, or tells himself, 'You suck.'" [National Journal]

We can't really appreciate the subtleties of the argument to include more panning and reaction shots of C-Span's coverage of Congress, which will supposedly let news orgs get a more authentic vision of what's going on down among the seats or on the floor. However, Nancy Pelosi has declined on behalf of the House at least, and we kind of like her pinch-hitter's rebuttal: "Such free-roaming lens-groping would defeat the original purpose of broadcasting House debates." Though perhaps Congress as a whole is trying to shed its formerly pro-groping image.