Best next career for Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Host of Reading Rainbow
With the stench of Rod Blagojevich all over him, and the stink of the public humiliation of his wife over his affair with a blonde cocktail waitress, the only people who might actually listen to a word that comes out of Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s mouth now are the little ones, and since the children have been left without their beloved PBS show since 2006, this could be a match made for TV. Junior will always be remembered as a child of his legendary father and since most of the politico’s conversations have been laced with fiction, we think he’ll feel right at home in this new role. It’s not like he doesn’t have time to catch up on his reading.

Audience choice:
Talk-show host, retirement (TIE)
Others that were mentioned a few times, amused us or seemed especially weird:
“Eliot Spitzer’s co-host”

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