Matt Lauer Asks Sarah Palin If She's "Reading Some Newspapers"

This is already so awkward. What's going to happen when Palin hosts the "Today" show tomorrow?

Tomorrow Sarah Palin will co-host the "Today" show. (NBC booked her so that Katie Couric doesn't crush them in the ratings when she co-hosts "Good Morning America.") Strongly suggesting that the program will in fact be as awkward as one can imagine, Matt Lauer teased tomorrow's show in a phone call with Palin this morning by asking, perhaps condescendingly, if Palin is reading the papers, prompting a hearty guffaw from Al Roker and a schoolyard-style "OHHHHH" from Ann Curry, et al.