Rep. Tim Johnson (R-Ill.) is a big football fan, but his love of the sport apparently doesn't extend to the New Orleans Saints.

Johnson was the only member of the House on Wednesday to vote against a motion to congratulate the National Football League's 2010 Super Bowl winners, who beat the Indianapolis Colts last month to clinch the  title.

Johnson's spokesman declined to speculate as to why the congressman dissed the Saints, but it's not for lack of love for the game.

Johnson recently told the University of Illinois football team that he used to live in the shadow of the school's football stadium, and sold programs to "all the Illinois games" when he was still in middle school.

Fugitives beware: the most powerful man in the free world is coming to "America's Most Wanted." 

President Barack Obama will appear on the 1,000th episode of the long-running Fox manhunt show, set to air at 9 p.m. on Saturday night. 

Sarah Palin will write another book, her publisher announced Thursday.

Though the new project is unnamed so far, it will be "a celebration of American virtues and strengths," according to a release put out by Harper Collins.

The publisher said Palin will "reflect on the key values—both national and spiritual—that have been such a profound part of her life and which continue to inform her vision of the future."

In addition to Palin's own writing, the book will contain excerpts from other writers who have inspired Palin, as well as profiles of people she admires. The project sounds decidedly more "campaign friendly" then her first book, 2009's "Going Rogue," which named names and made her a few enemies.

It's been a media heavy week for Palin, who has been in Los Angeles for the past few days. The former governor of Alaska appeared on Jay Leno's new "Tonight Show" on Monday, and has reportedly been making the rounds to studios, pitching her idea for a reality show set in Alaska.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is not under serious consideration for the top job at the Motion Picture Association of America, a source familiar with the search told ITK, despite reports that he is among the candidates being looked at for the powerful and prestigious lobbying job. 

The post is being vacated by former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman at the end of March, and a search is underway to find a successor. Richardson, a popular governor who made a brief run for president in 2008, has appeared on lists of possible candidates this week. 

Despite the attention that a possible Richardson pick has received both in Washington and Hollywood, the disinterest appears to be mutual: Richardson's spokesman told the New Mexico Independent Wednesday that the governor does not plan to become a lobbyist when his term ends in 2011. Instead, he "plans to live in Santa Fe and drive around the country visiting Major League ballparks." 

Richardson's love of baseball is well-known; he played pitcher for Tufts University and claims he was scouted by a number of major league teams after college. 

As the MPAA continues to search for a new leader, acting CEO Bob Pisano will serve as an interim head staring April 1. 

The former governor of Alaska is in Los Angeles this week, shopping a reality TV show with "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett.

According to Entertainment Tonight, Sarah Palin and Burnett have visited Fox, CBS, and NBC to pitch the project.

The show would be a nature documentary similar in style to the award-winning "Planet Earth," but set in Alaska, and Palin and her family would appear on camera.

A nature documentary with the Palins could be action-packed, if a little short on the traditionally environmentalist angle: Todd Palin is a semi-professional snowmobile driver, and his wife has hunted wolves from a helicopter, an activity she called "lots of fun" in a 2008 radio interview.

Vice President Joe Biden was among the special guests who gathered in the Capitol's Statuary Hall Wednesday for a tribute to Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), who died last month of complications from surgery.

Also on the program were Defense Secretary Robert Gates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who called Murtha "a great legislator."

Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) is "terrified" of an indictment which The National Enquirer reported Wednesday is "imminent," relating to his use of campaign funds to cover up an extra-marital affair during his 2008 presidential run.

A grand jury has been investigating Edwards's use of the funds since April of last year, and the Enquirer quotes a friend of Edwards's saying that although the former candidate does not believe he did anything wrong, he fears that his case will be made an example of.

The tabloid has led the reporting of Edwards's affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, and its pursuit of the story has earned it an unexpected Pulitzer Prize nomination.