Tebow, a Heisman Trophy winner who led the Gators to an NCAA championship, is a famously outspoken Christian noted for wearing Bible verses on his game day eye-black. He is also a walking pro-life story: the Super Bowl ad will relate how Tim’s mother, against the advice of doctors, carried him to term in a dangerous pregnancy while on a church mission to the Philippines.

Discounting the pro-life argument of a planned Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow’s mother, Joy Behar told the audience of the January 26 “View” the the Florida quarterback just as easily could have been a “rapist pedophile.” [audio available here]“What are people flippin’ out about,” bewildered moderator Whoopi Goldberg — herself an ardent pro-choice activist — asked.

“The only argument against any of it is, that, you know, he could just as easily become some kind of a rapist pedophile. I mean, you don’t know what someone’s going to be,” Behar answered, adding:

David Shuster has left no doubt on what side he comes down in the debate over the planned airing of a pro-life ad during the Super Bowl.  Sponsored by Focus on the Family, the ad tells the story of how Pam Tebow ignored medical advice to have an abortion, and instead gave birth to Tim, who of course went on to become a legendary college football player and inspiration to millions for his faith and character.

On MSNBC this afternoon, Shuster hosted a segment on the issue bringing together Charmaine Yoest, head of Americans United for Life and Erin Matson of NOW.  Dr. Yoest was no more than a few seconds into her defense of the ad when Shuster began shouting at her.

It was NOW/Shuster united against Yoest, but she handled it as deftly as, well, a Gator receiver beating a double-team to catch a TD pass from . . . Tim Tebow.

Ouch.  Joe Scarborough on today’s Morning Joe:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: You understand what I’m saying.  I prefer Conan to Leno.  I prefer my dog to Leno. That’s just me: well, my dog’s very funny.

The irony is that–his personal preference for canine comedy notwithstanding–Joe went on to argue that from a business perspective, it makes sense to replace O’Brien with Leno . . .

You’ve just won a tough Democrat primary fight. You are now in the general election campaign for the “Ted Kennedy” senate seat in “Massachusettes.” So what do you do? Why, go to Disney World!

Okay, so maybe Democrat candidate Martha Coakley didn’t go to Disney World but she did take a 6 day vacation in the middle of her campaign for the U.S. Senate on December 23. Why would a candidate do something so foolish? Perhaps because she actually believed the reports in the mainstream media that she was already in possession of the “Ted Kennedy” seat and that the general election on January 19 against her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, was just a mere formality. Here is Derrick Z. Jackson of the Boston Globe declaring Coakley the “winner” on December 3:

MARTHA COAKLEY will be the state’s next US senator. Michael Capuano handed her the keys to the late Ted Kennedy’s office by getting caught up in one last dumb shouting match with the sure loser in the race, Stephen Pagliuca. One can only imagine the smile inside Coakley’s head as Capuano and Pagliuca descended into a banter so banal that Pagliuca tried to nail Capuano as the Sarah Palin of the Democratic Party.

While mainstream media members continue to belittle her at every opportunity, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attracted huge audiences in her first two official appearances as a Fox News Channel contributor.

Debuting on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” the former vice presidential candidate drew almost 4 million viewers more than doubling the combined total of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and CNN’s Campbell Brown.

The following evening on “Glenn Beck,” Palin attracted over 3 million — at 5PM!

Regardless of what her detractors say, Palin was a smash hit (complete numbers below the fold courtesy TVBytheNumbers.com, Tuesday first):