We all know that the current issue of Playboy features pictures of naked Lindsay Lohan. But, lets be honest, you already looked at them. So, is there anything else worthwhile in the issue? Well, in addition to what I can only assume is another incredibly helpful edition of “The Playboy Advisor” (how will I find the perfect bottle of full-bodied cabernet to persuade my wife to have a threeway?) there’s also a pretty great interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace. In it, he discusses the state of the Obama presidency, his high-profile scuffles with Jon Stewart, and growing up as immersed in television journalism as anyone could possibly be.

HBO’s Bill Maher recently chatted with Humboldt County, California’s 94.1 KSLG about a variety things, like religion, politics… and Fox News host Sean Hannity‘s apparent concern regarding the Playboy mansion.

Host Myles Cochrane shared a snippet from a Hannity segment wherein he stated that Maher “hates God, he hates religion, he smokes pot, he wants to be Hugh Hefner” and that he “has a dark agenda.” Maher laughed it off. “Yeah, Sean’s a little… shall we say frustrated?,” he asked. “I don’t know. Jealous much, Sean? I think that’s what it is.”

But, Maher continued, he’d be totally willing to appear on Hannity’s show himself.

Squished somewhere in between images of airbrushed ladybits, the September issue of Playboy will include an interview with Mercede Johnston, sister of Bristol Palin‘s former boyfriend, Levi Johnston. Following closely in her brother’s footsteps, Mercede not only poses nude, but aslo offers a slew of salacious tidbits about her famous would-be in-laws, including rumors of drug abuse.

Throughout the Rep. Weiner scandal, radio host Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly been evoking the name of Hugh Hefner, saying that, unlike the troubled Congressman, the Playboy founder knew how to be a real ladies’ man. Now though after decades of being looked up to by men across the world, it appears that Hefner is now teaching us all something knew; how to deal with a broken heart. Hefner was set to marry model Crystal Harris this week, however, Harris broke off the engagement only five days before the wedding. Ever since, Hefner has been tweeting how hurt and surprised (as well as retweeting a post implying that Harris only got engaged as a publicity hoax) he is. One tweet in particular is gaining people’s attention though as it shows how Hefner is using the cover of the next issue of Playboy to enact a little bit of revenge.

In a lengthy interview in Playboy, MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell reveals plenty about himself and shares his thoughts on some of his ideological opponents. Describing conservative-leaning hosts as joke “characters” he suggests he doesn’t think Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly are dangerous because he’s too preoccupied laughing at them.

Conservative film- and troublemaker James O’Keefe does little to dissuade animosity from the left, though after a series of faux pas has left him adrift as ideological allies question who in their right mind who greenlight wiretapping a Senator’s office or cornering a journalist in what can only be described as a “dildo boat.” To that end, Playboy‘s Jordan Lieberman sought O’Keefe and found a conflicted picture of a passionate activist with a serious judgment problem.

MSNBC’s newest anchor, Martin Bashir, devoted several minutes of his show (and an unknown amount of energy) keeping a straight face while reporting on an infectious disease outbreak that emanated from the world famous Playboy Mansion.

It is, perhaps, a sign of the times that the onetime mothership of hedonism and debauchery is suspected of causing an outbreak, not of some exotic malady of the penis, or of peculiar muscle strains, but of Legionnaires’ Disease. This is the sad tale of a dusty, ancient relic of a bygone America, and his mansion.

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is rasing eyebrows with her suggestion that a movement to replace the term “illegal immigrant” with “undocumented immigrant” is analogous to “re-brand(ing) the use of the word rapist to nonconsensual sex partner.”

Although her remark was clearly meant to evoke what some see as an Orwellian manipulation of language, the intense heat given to the mighty #Mooreandme protest over the dismissive treatment of rape allegations on MSNBC’s Countdown could spark a similar surge of outrage over Kelly’s remark. Here’s why I don’t think it should.

A video has appeared online featuring a new Playboy pictorial entitled “Game On.” The pictorial is of a number of Playmates decked out to look like characters from the upcoming movie Tron: Legacy and are posing next to replicas of the film’s “lightcycles.” The first response from most of the Internet was “Hey, look at the sexy ladies in the silly, futuristic wigs.” The second response was “Wait a second. Isn’t this a Disney movie?”

Look, Congressman John Conyers of Michigan’s 14th district—I know SkyMall is boring. There are only so many times you can look at a map of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport before losing your mind. But unabashedly perusing the pages of Playboy magazine on a crowded airplane? That’s a bit much.

The New York Times has a fascinating article about Playboy TV, of all things—specifically, how it’s trying to evolve into a destination for both sexes. As Brooks Barnes writes, as of now, the network is both “too tame to compete with sex-related video-on-demand services” and “too raunchy to appeal strongly to women,” meaning that it’s stuck in the middle (sort of like the CNN of the adult cable world, no?).

This is the kind of promotion that, once you hear about it, you’re shocked it’s never been done before. Playboy is turning Hugh Hefner into Willy Wonka by hiding “golden tickets” in 10 copies of the latest issue, out this Friday. The tickets will enable the lucky finder to go to a party at the famed Playboy Mansion, something that is very, very important to most heterosexual men born before the year 1990 or so.

Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz stopped by the Playboy Mansion this week to talk to Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner about Wikileaks Ground Zero Mosque naked pictures on The Huffington Post and more.

Unsurprisingly, Hefner has a very pro-traditional media point of view.

As the Gen. Stanley McChrystal story continues to evolve one of the questions will inevitably be…what happens next?

Will the lengthy Rolling Stone profile signal his downfall, or will he survive to see another day. Let’s take a look five recent career-threatening profiles or interviews, and whether the subjects were able to keep their job?

In what seems to have become an annual rite, there’s a new list out counting down the top 20 conservative hotties (new media edition), and while I have great appreciation for conservative new media hotties, and I love Countdown, I’m not a big fan of this effort.

CNN’s Larry King devoted a large portion of his 9pmET cable news show last night to interview comedian Sarah Silverman – because, you know, CNN is in a “category of one.”

Besides talking about her new book, The Bedwetter, King closed the interview with a question about Sarah Palin. This wasn’t going to end well.

Well it’s official – John Mayer is a complete and total pig. A very quotable, jaw-droppingly honest, hilarious, fairly introspective pig. But a pig nonetheless.

He did a lengthy interview with Playboy in which he discussed his racist penis, having sex with Jessica Simpson, dropped an n-bomb and much much more. Here are some highlights. Update: Mayer has apologized.

Esquire, Fortune, Playboy, Vanity Fair, New York: End the War on Christmas Magazine Covers! Who knows, magazines might even increase those newsstand sell-through numbers that are all doing so terribly if they just get back into the holiday spirit. To make a case, we’ve collected the Top 20 Christmas Magazine Covers of All Time.

Playboy magazine is not the cultural touchstone it once was and is on track to lose $8 million this year. To counteract such disappointing numbers, the company has decided to outsource all of its publishing jobs, excluding only editorial, to generically named American Media Inc., according to a report from Reuters.

Let no one accuse Glenn Beck of not having a sense of humor. As predicted, Beck took some time last night to highlight his sort of starring turn on South Park last week (Cartman discovers a socialist regime at South Park elementary): “You haven’t lived until South Park has done an entire episode on you…Last week Eric Cartman played a much thinner version of me.” But he doesn’t stop there.

Today, Glenn Beck went purple over SEIU (The Service Employees International Union) including inviting “the purple shirt people” to the show to make sense of the health care bill, because without the purple shirt the health care bill would not be 2,000 pages long (as opposed to the Constitution, which is only 17 pages long and runs the entire country). Beck’s analogy of the country vs. the health care bill? It’s a doozy.

Yes, that is Marge Simpson naked on the cover of the November issue of Playboy, covered by a strategically-placed bunny head. It’s how the magazine is honoring the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons. But will it be sexier than Levi Johnston‘s centrefold? That’s the question. No, really, that’s the question.

Over at Webdesigner Depot, Angela West has put together an excellent list of 30 of the most controversial magazine covers of all time. A) we wish we had thought of it first, and B) we urge our readers to check it out.

The other big star at Fox News besides the usual hosts we write about here (Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck) would be Sean Hannity, who’s ratings each night make him the #2 or #3 cable news host on television. Last night on his Great American Panel, he featured FNC regular and longtime Democratic strategist Bob Beckel, right-wing regular Erick Erickson of RedState.com…and Playboy cover model and “singer” Aubrey O’Day. The conversation, inevitably, moved to masturbation.

In a July interview with Playboy, Alec Baldwin was true to his actor ego and ambitiously revealed his desire to enter politics, singling out every lefty’s favorite turncoat Joe Lieberman as a potential opponent. “I have no use for him,” said Baldwin before admitting that “it’s all fantasy” because he wouldn’t ever be able to leave New York, as noted by Gossip Cop.