While it’s true sports analogies are cheap, Super Bowl 45 (pardon me: XLV) is irresistible as a metaphor for American politics even though it’s anything but cheap.

To a large degree it is another bauble for the charmed lives of the obscenely wealthy, who lord over the masses below in their owners’ boxes of luxury. They are handed anything they want. Just look at Alex Rodriguez and Cameron “Feedy Bird” Diaz as so many millions already have

Last night, during one of the worst three (out of three) musical performances at the Super Bowl, Christina Aguilera flubbed a few of the lines in the National Anthem. However, she wasn’t the only one insulting our nation during that song. Apparently a few of the football players weren’t showing enough deference to “The Star-Spangled Banner”. Fortunatley, Glenn Beck is here to take them to task.

Last night FOX chose to air their hit show Glee in the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot. The football themed episode featured the cast performing their take on “Thriller” in addition to having the CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric drop by to interview “loser of the year” Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch’s hilarious cheerleading coach).

These days it seems President Obama can’t even get through an apolitical football game without someone bossing him around to do something or another. Despite being a unique game in many ways, this Super Bowl was no different, as the Black-Eyed Peas’ Will.I.Am took poetic license to demand of the President to “get these kids educated!” in the middle of “Where is the Love?”

Cameras at the Super Bowl caught Cameron Diaz feeding boyfriend Alex Rodriguez popcorn.

The much anticipated encounter between the leader of the free world, President Obama and the highest rated cable news host, Fox News Channel titan Bill O’Reilly took place and no subject was off limits. For the first half of the interview, the conversation between Obama and O’Reilly was slightly contentious, yet in the second half Obama was more introspective.

As heated as both national and international politics may be at the moment, Wikileaks and the Egyptian revolts will have some serious competition for attention from the Super Bowl tomorrow. Americans are gathering their tailgate fare and getting their jerseys ready, but if there is some sort of football game going on this Sunday, Bill O’Reilly seems to have not gotten the memo– he’s far more interested in what he believes will be the “most-watched interview of all time” preceding the game– an interview which, coincidentally, he is giving.

Fox has rejected a Super Bowl ad for a site called, innocently and innocuously, JesusHatesObama.com, calling it “unacceptable.” The site sells merchandise like mugs and T-shirts poking fun at the President and his policies and informs visitors that while they don’t actually believe Jesus hates Obama, they do believe in “the freedom to make fun of the Obama Administration with novelty T-shirts.”

Last week we drew attention to a reasonably absurd debate hosted by Megyn Kelly regarding a fan-created Doritos™ advertisement and whether it was blasphemous. Last night, Stephen Colbert pointed out that Doritos™ never intended for this advertisement to air, and thanked Ms. Kelly for airing the ad, giving Catholics the opportunity for outrage.

Sources tell Mediaite that Bill O’Reilly has landed an exclusive pre-game interview with President Barack Obama scheduled to air on the Fox Broadcasting Channel before the Super Bowl. This will mark only the second time that Obama has sat down with Fox News — his first was last year with Bret Baier. But its the first time that Obama will participate with Mr O’Reilly as a sitting president (though O’Reilly did interview Obama in the later stages of his presidential candidacy.)

Beloved munchie product Doritos has declared war on the Catholic Church– or so some devotees are interpreting their latest commercial, which depicts priests substituting the crispy corn snack for the Eucharist, and giving a sort of Doritos Communion. The ad, produced for the Super Bowl, didn’t quite make the cut, but that doesn’t mean it’s not riling up the faithful.

Odds are the only thing you remember about the 2004 Super Bowl is what happened during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake‘s halftime performance. As Broadcasting & Cable reports today, the FCC’s not over it, and CBS hasn’t given up the fight.

CBS has been relentlessly fighting the FCC’s initial fine–$550,000–for the “wardrobe malfunction” that exposed Jackson’s breast.

The location of the 2014 Super Bowl hath been decided, and it will be held in…New York! That’s why Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a happy press conference, right? It’ll be held in the proud home of the New York Giants! And the New York Jets! If the USA Today headline says that it’s gonna be a New York Super Bowl, it must be true, right?

New York, well technically Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, has been awarded the 2014 Super Bowl. This is big news to many because it is the first time ever a Super Bowl has been awarded to a cold weather city, and the idea that the Super Bowl might be played in snow appears to have freaked a lot of people out including Rick Sanchez.

Are you a big fan of the NFL? And are you a big fan of Glee? Anyone still left?

FOX announced its fall and midseason schedule today at their upfront, and also revealed which show would get the coveted post-Super Bowl slot in February. And it’s going to involve a lot of singing.

After collaborating in the Jay Leno-bashing during the NBC late night wars, David Letterman and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reminisced on the experience during Kimmel’s guest spot on the CBS late show last night.

Both described it as “fun,” but only Kimmel was armed with a few more jabs.

Aw. Indianapolis native David Letterman welcomed Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew Brees of the winning New Orleans Saints to his show last night — despite his allegiance to the Colts — celebrating the new champion in the name of his team, his city and his super-cute baby son. Letterman showed Brees’ upcoming Sports Illustrated cover [...]

Morning Joe, the most laid-back cable news program this side of Red Eye, may not be the first place to look for a call to arms against beer-and-chips gag ads on the Super Bowl, but guest Donny Deutsch took the opportunity to remind companies that football fans are not as dumb as they might think.

For the average unemployed American (one of every ten of us, at this point), finding a job is a rigid process. But former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is not your average jobless American, and he’s on the prowl with a kitchen-sink approach to impressing potential bosses that has led him to dabble in everything from authoring books to impersonating Elvis to trying out for a bevy of celebrity reality TV shows.

We’ve got a packed Mediaite Office Hours today for Super Bowl Thursday, live from Livestream.com’s studio at 3pmET. Joining us today will be Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, and some of the SportsGrid and Styleite team.

Back in October, Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco announced plans to create his own Twitter-based football news network, the not-so-subtly-titled OCNN, with Motorola. Now, after a dormant period, OCNN is finally in action, using the Super Bowl’s infamous Media Day as a springboard.

When I first brought up Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad with Focus on the Family a month ago, I probably should have staked out that I thought it would become a big deal.

Yesterday, we carried a story about CBS’s precedent-upending decision to run a “pro-life” advocacy ad by Focus on the Family during the Super Bowl. The ad is to feature Tim Tebow – the Heisman award-winning QB renowned, among other things, for his habit of quoting Hebrews with his eye-black. In it, Tim and his mother recount, allegedly without visible embarrassment, the saga of Tim’s conception, career as a fetus, and birth. You will be slightly less than astounded to learn that news of the ad has gone over very well with some, and very badly with others.

The Super Bowl story of the week, overshadowing the miraculous rise of the New Orleans Saints, is the brewing controversy over the approval by CBS of a 30 second ad sponsored by Focus on the Family to be played during the fourth quarter of the Feb. 7 game. The ad will feature University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom talking about the fact that she was encouraged by doctors to abort the pregnancy that resulted in Tim’s birth.

The overnight numbers are in, and last night’s Vikings-Saints game is expected to be the most watched television program of any kind, excluding Super Bowls, since the series finale of Seinfeld.