"You Don't Bring Down Walls By Swinging For The Fences..."

First of all, I have no problem, per se, with Campbell Brown doing “hard hitting political commentary”.

I’m not one of those people who longs for the days when she and Lester talked to the lady who made fun but inexpensive holiday gifts on the Weekend Today show.

Then again, I’m not naïve enough to think that if Campbell looked like, say, Jane Hathaway, she would be getting the big up front push that CNN is giving her.

Fair being fair, I did a little checking.

And, as Mr. Bush would say, I checked her out on The Google.

When it comes to news cred, she has some game.

But, I’ve been reading/watching her commentaries lately and I think somebody in her circle needs to offer her this advice.

Hey, Campbell, stop trying to hit home runs every time you step up.

If for no other reason, I think the stats will bear out that the guy who leads the league in home runs often leads the leagues in striking out as well.

The big swing might provide a little drama in the ball park.

On the air it just looks like swinging too hard.

Last week, Campbell wrote a piece berating Obama for being a “hypocrite” for “going back on his word” to not hire lobbyists or former lobbyists for his administration.

I did a little checking on The Google about that one, too.

First, from everything I’m able to gather, Obama is, in fact, holding to the literal tenets of his self imposed guidelines.

And second, just for the record, the only “word” I think Obama has so far offered is that oath he took at the Capitol on January 20.

And then again on January 21.

Hey, Justice Roberts, everybody mistakes makes.

Now, Campbell has come out swinging at that paragon of the brilliantly framed and articulated argument, Rush Limbaugh.

Yes, that was meant to be a little sarcastic.

Take a listen/look at the video.

I’ll just wait here until you’re done.

Oh and sorry about the commercial. As you probably know, those things are attached to every video piece like grim death.


Okay.

Here’s the thing.

I really don’t think you have to be member of Mensa to know that Rush Limbaugh isn’t interested in debating the issues.

Rush Limbaugh is interested in being Rush Limbaugh.

And God bless him.

And America.

Because that’s the coolest of the cool things about this country.

Any idiot can express their idiocy without fear of repression or reprisal.

Present blogger included.

And being Rush Limbaugh isn’t about finding the common ground between two diverse, even polarized points of view.

It’s about playing to a particular audience.

Rush would no more see both sides of an argument than Howard Stern would find something to talk about besides breasts.

People who listen to Howard aren’t expecting tasteful presentation.

People who listen to Rush aren’t expecting balanced discussion.

So be it.

And God bless…yada, yada, yada.

Which will bring us back to do..re..mi..fa…Campbell.

Campbell Brown seems to be the latest advancement in the world of “commentary”, that insidious little art form that mutated into being some years ago when the X cell of news reporting and the Y cell of editorializing morphed together.

I think scholars will eventually trace it back to the invention of the all news cable channel, requiring twenty four hours a day of material to fill the twenty four hours a day.

Think Ted Turner having been the director of “The Fly”.

And while our God, and founding fathers, given right to express our opinions is, thank God and our founding fathers, alive and well here in the U. S. of A, I haven’t yet had anybody totally convince me that stirring shit up just to start something is really doing anybody any good.

But, come on campers, we all know that, don’t we?

And Campbell, you scamp, you know that, too, don’t you?

Here’s my “commentary” on the commentary.

Campbell, if you really are the voice of reason that CNN is trying to make you out to be, then let Rush Limbaugh be Rush Limbaugh.

Let Barack Obama be Barack Obama.
Let Howard Stern be Howard Stern.

And let that voice of reason be your own voice and not one that seems to trying to play both ends against the middle just to stir shit up.

In other words, be Campbell Brown.

Not Barry Bonds.