The semi-official oracle and chronicler of the most excitable lower limb in television news is honored to have been invited to report in here from time to time. If "The Leg" feels a thrill, or if "The Mouth" says something particularly mock-worthy, you'll hear about it here.

For example, yesterday Chris Matthews' Leg was shooting the breeze with the lifeless, shriveled husk of Keith Olbermann's sense of shame as "the heads" (as The Leg affectionately calls them) were getting their makeup done.

Eventually, the subject of that new alien video came up.

The Leg said, "When I heard that someone had video tape of a menacing, bald, squinty little man leering through a residential window at night, my first thought was, 'What's Senator Leahy doing in Nebraska?"

Olbermann's shame-void was not amused: "You, sir, are worse than Hitler's leg." Clearly, the humorless Countdown host views all illegal aliens as future members of the new liberal electoral majority.

(cross-posted at Chris Matthews's Leg)