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She's signed on to play jacqueline kennedy in "the kennedys" an upcoming history channel mini-series about the political family in 2011, eight hours of programming. greg kinnear will play jfk, tom wilkinson, joe kennedy sr. an interesting choice in that she's stepping away from film -- >> i was going to ask-- >> -- and doing something like this. >> is that a wise career move? >> i think it's indicative of a career move that more celebrities are making. there's a lot of good equity to be had in a really well produced mini-series like this that's on a cable show and is going to put a lot of fund...

Accounts. the newest examples, former alaska governor sarah palin, new issue of new york magazine reports she went from making $125,000 as a civil servant to $12 million in the nine months she has spent in private sector. and today we learn details about former president george w. bush's memoir set to be released in november. in fact, hillary rosen and mark halperin. just how rich is sarah palin? >> she's making millions and millions and doing it, far be it for me to say writing dookz and talking on tv is easy, but she's not having to lobby. she's not having to do anything that doesn't come pr...

Tbs. >> a lot of people are going, what a step down but is it? >> tbs, are you kidding me? >> $10 million to do a cable show. wow. >> reporter: he was acting like a million bucks at his first concert in oregon. one fan shot him bestowing a hug on her. when his 11:00 p.m. show starts in november, he'll push the george lopez show back an hour to midnight. he welcomes the lead-in. >> latino and red head, it's worked before. lucy ball and desie arne as. >> reporter: everyone wondered how jay len no would react? >> congratulations to -- >> to whom, spit it out, jay?

His terminology. the most fascinating thing out of this wasn't the asides and wasn't the jokes. the fascinating thing was that a liberal icon like jon stewart, who is a great entrepreneur, right? he knows what sells and he sells it and he does it really, really well. okay, i salute him for that but what he decided to do was use the most popular cable show in the united states for years running to essentially announce his distancing himself, officially distancing himself from barack obama who he obviously has enormous respect for and obviousli' really supportive. >> bill: i don't think he did t...

His terminology. the most fascinating thing out of this wasn't the asides and wasn't the jokes. the fascinating thing was that a liberal icon like jon stewart, who is a great entrepreneur, right? he knows what sells and he sells it and he does it really, really well. okay, i salute him for that but what he decided to do was use the most popular cable show in the united states for years running to essentially announce his distancing himself, officially distancing himself from barack obama who he obviously has enormous respect for and obviousli' really supportive. >> bill: i don't think he did t...