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What are the chances that Joe Lieberman, Bill O’Reilly, Keith Olbermann and Henry Kissinger would all be at the same Yankees game on a Monday night, with Dustin Moseley pitching for the Bombers against the Oakland A’s?

Hell has not frozen over. They’re not sitting together.

But they are at the stadium, and the YES Network had the footage to prove it.

Maybe they could all meet at the Nathan’s concession stand. That would be a first — sauerkraut used as a weapon. 

Lieberman got me thinking about another famous Joe — Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio.

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We put U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., on the spot Friday about President Obama’s September fundraising trip to Connecticut.

“The president is always welcome in Fairfield County,” Himes said to Hearst Connecticut Newspapers via e-mail.

Himes’ comment is 180-degrees from a warning to Obama not to come here by former Connecticut Democratic Party Chairman John Droney, who suggested that the visit could be a liability for the candidates during a taping of the WFSB-Channel 3 Sunday talk show “Face the State.”

But Himes did not say whether he will be at Obama’s side for the upcoming fundraiser, which a Himes aide might conflict with the congressional vote schedule. 

State Sen. Dan Debicella, R-Conn., who is challenging the freshman Himes, is hoping to feast on the issue.

“Here he goes again…hypocrite Jim Himes shrugging off the very coattails he rode to Washington,” Debicella spokesman Ashley Maagero said in a statement. “It’s no surprise that Himes is running from the Washington failures he’s rubber stamped for the last two years. Unemployment is still floating around 10% and Fairfield County residents know Himes is part of the problem, regardless of how creatively he tries to duck it. The voters deserve better.”

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A variety of online news outlets are reporting that former World Wrestling Entertainment star Gertrude “Luna” Vachon died Friday morning in Florida at age 48.

 ”World Wrestling Entertainment has been made aware of the passing of Gertrude (Luna) Vachon. WWE extends its deepest condolences to the Vachon family,” WWE said in a statement, according to Fox Sports.

“Ms. Vachon was under contract with WWE at various times from 1993 through 2000, and performed under the name ‘Luna’ Vachon. She last performed for WWE in early 2000.”

Luna wrestled for the WWE from 1993 to 2000 … and had gained notoriety as Bam Bam Bigelow‘s “main squeeze,” the celebrity gossip website TMZ reported.

The latest death is likely to renew the focus of wrestlers’ health and how diligently WWE and its former CEO, Republican Senate hopeful Linda McMahon, monitored steroid use among the company’s top talent.

The father of a wrestler who died earlier this month of heart failure says he’s upset with McMahon’s reaction to his son’s death.

Harley McNaught told The Day of New London the Republican disrespected McNaught’s son and family when she told reporters she “might have” met 29-year-old Lance Cade once and that her company was not responsible for deaths outside the ring.

McNaught says he was with his son at two World Westling Entertainment functions when McMahon came up to Cade and knew him by name.

WWE says it continually checked on Cade, who battled a pain killer addiction, including after he was released from the company. WWE covered Cade’s rehab stint earlier this year.

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Linda McMahon kicks ass and takes names. At least in an animated short from Next Media, a Hong Kong based company who produced the piece for Taiwanese broadcast.

These are the folks who brought you the the animated reenactment of Tiger Woods’ car crash, which went viral soon after showing up online.

Since then they’ve taken on the likes of Al Gore, Steve Jobs, even Snookie, and are pretty much the toast of YouTube.

Their newest political animation features President Barack Obama riding a donkey and shooting lazer beams out of his eyes at Sarah Palin — something you usually only see in Rahm Emanuel’s dreams.

Remind me why we don’t do this on American television?

JUST WATCH THE VIDEO:

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Rob Simmons, who failed to defeat Republican U.S. Senate nominee Linda McMahon in today’s GOP primary, said tonight he considered continuing his battle to return to Congress (he’s a former U.S. Representative from Stonington) as a third-party, independent candidate.

Simmons said he analyzed U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman’s 2006 bid. Lieberman of Stamford that year lost the Democratic Party’s nomination to anti-Iraq War candidate Ned Lamont, formed The Connecticut for Lieberman Party, and went on to win the general election. He now considers himself an “independent Democrat.”

But Simmons said his situation would be different and he determined he could not muster the same resources/support as Lieberman did four years ago.

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Here’s a parting image from the media work room at McMahon’s Cromwell HQ.

The GOP Senate primary winner is scheduled to be on the talk show circuit Wednesday morning, with appearances on NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “Good Morning America” and CBS’ “The Early Show.”

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Where's Vince? Triple H, the son-in-law of Linda McMahon, left and McMahon's mother, Evelyn Carson, 83, right, clap as they celebrate her victory in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Tuesday evening, Aug. 10, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cromwell, Connecticut. Photo by Bob Luckey.

Notably absent in all the Linda McMahon hoopla tonight was her controversial husband, Vince.

The campaign says Vince is on the road every Monday and Tuesday, taping Monday Night Raw and SmackDown.

SmackDown was in San Jose tonight. That’s about as far away you can get from Connecticut.

Wonder what’s going to happen Nov. 2?

SmackDown preempted by politics? Oh wait, they’re one in the same.

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State Sen. Sam Caliguiri carried the vote in his hometown of Waterbury.

The vote breakdown in Waterbury:

Caliguiri: 959; Greenberg: 158; Bernier: 232

The AP and major news networks have called Caliguiri as the winner of the 5th congressional district race.

Caliguiri still has not arrived at his election party in Waterbury.