Boy Yawns, CNN Bumbles, Letterman Yelps

"We're not a news show, and if we had doctored the footage for comedic effect, we would say so," Burnett said.

Last night on his show, Letterman recapped the story and joked that he's hearing that maybe the White House did speak to CNN about "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth."

Janet Jackson totally gamed ABC News's "Good Morning America" yesterday when the mob who'd shown up to see her perform on the infotainment show -- and maybe even a couple of folks who'd been planted by Jackson's camp in the crowd -- began to jeer Diane Sawyer as she tried to interview the pop star.

"She's over it! She's over it!" the crowd began screaming as Sawyer asked her very first question.

It was by far the best day yet for Jackson on her TV tour to simultaneously promote her new album and dodge all questions about the Super Bowl Incident.

"Good Morning America" had been touting the fact that this would be Jackson's first performance since the halftime show in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of her costume and revealed one of her breasts, discussion of which instantly became the new national pastime.

An interview with Sawyer was part of the package. The crowd, however, did its best to prevent Di from doing her job. And, really, the heckling did seemed totally ginned, especially when Sawyer tried to ask a question and the crowd began to shout "Album! Album! Album! Ask her about the album!" Jackson then batted her enormous brown eyes at Sawyer and said demurely, "I think they're basically saying they want to talk about the album."

I mean, let's face it, who but a publicist would incite a mob to scream "Ask her about the album"?

With enormous effort, Sawyer finally elicited the only genuinely interesting answer that Jackson has given so far on her Clean Breast Tour, when Sawyer asked how soon after the Super Bowl fiasco "did you know that this was something seismic?"

Jackson said that it was when she'd gone back to her hotel and walked into a friend's room where CNN was on the television: "I saw . . . that clip, and there was a headline underneath talking about Justin and I being arrested in Houston possibly. I was just taken aback. I didn't know that it had escalated to . . ."

Unfortunately, as if on cue, the audience at that point began to roar, "Down with Justin! Down with Justin!"

Exhausted and seeming just a touch peeved, Sawyer had to concede defeat. Jackson had scored her first big victory of the campaign.

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