Al for President! Today Show “weatherman” Al Roker is defending his controversial interview with reality TV personalities Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. Al lit up the blogosphere on Monday after the Hills stars accused the NBC correspondent of “attacking” them during their post-I’m A Celebrity… interview on The Today Show this week.

Al stands by his decision to rake the newlyweds over the coals with hard-hitting questions, telling co-host Meredith Vieira that he “asked what a lot of people wanted to know” during yesterday’s sit-down.

And to Spencer’s declaration that he would have ripped Al’s “head off” save for the fact that he “was recently saved by Jesus,” Roker simply replies: “I would have dumped him like a bag of dirt.”