Over the weekend, former President Bill Clinton had a several-month late birthday bash in Hollywood, lasting two nights and capped off with a seductive performance by Lady Gaga, who performed a special version of “Bad Romance” and giddily called her performance a “Marilyn moment.” Given that ostentatious displays of power and wealth are public enemy #1 on The Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell‘s cringing reaction to the affair (no pun intended) should not have come as a surprise, but it was still fairly hard-hitting from one liberal to another.

Since the initial rise of Anthony Weiner‘s sexting scandal three weeks ago, the impulse to compare his demise to that of other politicians caught in sex scandals has roped in politicians from all across the political spectrum. Now that he’s gone, some have come to the conclusion that what he did was no worse than what some politicians that stayed in office managed to do. Tonight, Bill O’Reilly proposed just this, comparing Weiner to Sen. David Vitter and President Bill Clinton.

After yesterday’s increasingly bizarre press conference, Wolf Blitzer appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight to reflect on his interview with the congressman and how he was convinced Weiner was telling the truth about his Twitter account being hacked.

Media coverage of scandals involving sex is often fraught with common pitfalls, none more insidious than the nomenclature surrounding questions of consent. For those seeking to draw a bright line between former Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s just-revealed love child, and IMF chief  Dominique Strauss-Kahn‘s attempted rape case, yes, there is a huge difference, but Bill Maher‘s advice to “get a yes” before you “go after the household help” ignores the inherently coercive relationship between employee and employer.

Everything sounds better when set to music, though on might argue that President Bill Clinton‘s life story has been operatic even without the addition of music. Nevertheless, auditions for Billy Blythe are being held today in Little Rock Arkansas “a coming of age story set in the late 1950′s in Hot Springs.”

Ken Starr, who rose to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead attorney against President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, is expected to take another executive position this week, this time in the much tamer field of academia as president of Baylor University, the world’s largest Baptist university. With the exception of his involvement in the constitutional defense of Proposition 8 in California, Starr’s post-Clinton career had taken a turn to academia; he had in a dean position at Pepperdine Law School for the past six years before the confirmation of his new appointment leaked.

Everything old is new again! Last night certainly felt like a blast from 2008 as all the cablers went wall to wall with coverage of Massachusetts special election. And really it would be hard to argue that there is anyone who enjoys the election circus more than Chris Matthews, who reached farther back than 2008 in order to explain the election results: Not even Monica Lewinsky was as damaging as this economy.

Politico is reporting that a new book to be published next February includes assertions from Monica Lewinsky that Bill Clinton “answered untruthfully” in testimony. Death of American Virtue, written by Ken Gormley “offers an insightful, balanced, and revealing analysis of the events leading up to the impeachment trial of President William Jefferson Clinton,” says the Random House website.