Makes perfect sense.

Rove & Wolfson would be hypergeometrically more interesting than Manitee and Clowns.

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...I get to hear killer female voices all day long but, I think Susan Estrich's voice is a hoot!  She's animated, on-point, and let's face it, she makes great TV.  She's also often wrong. but I still get a big kick out of watching her on FNC anyway. 

Yet for a voice I can't stand to hear, it's Fran Drescher hand down. 

"I'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston
telephone directory than the 2,000 faculty at Hardvard Unversity." -
William F. Buckley Jr.

Punditry must be like ballplayers who become announcers. As ex-players, their experience makes them valuable, but unless they can deliver that experience in short, concise, crisp soundbytes, they usually fail on TV. Johnny Unitas may have been the greatest quarterback who ever lived, but on TV he just couldn't put it into words. On the other hand, Jim Palmer was a great athlete, but he may be an even better announcer because he can deliver his insights in a concise, entertaining way. Some guys are good at it, some aren't.

In politics, when one administration leaves office, their ex-players flood the airwaves for a while. And especially in the beginning, they're all eager to justify their time in office, and to continue the battle with the Other Side. Like ballplayers, though, they have to make the transition from knowing the game to explaining the game.

• Karl Rove, I think, has grasped that very quickly. He's a Jim Palmer type. The all-time example might have been Tim Russert, who was a tough player but he became a much better analyst.
• The other category is filled with people still trying to play the game. Forgive me for saying, but Carville could be a great analyst, but he's still got too much competition in him. Same for his wife. Love her though I do, Mary Matalin is still playing the game. Begala has no insight at all, he's pure attack dog.
• David Gergen? Personal taste here ... he wasn't much of a player, and isn't much of an analyst.

Wolfson's one of those guys you hate when he's with the other team, but when he's on your side, you love his tenacity. He could be a lot of fun. We'll have to give him a little time to get the battles out of his system, but he has some potential. If he turns out to be a hack, well, Rockefeller Center is within walking distance of Fox headquarters.

OK, this was the thing that struck me: "while vacationing in Liverpool, England."

Really? I've been to Liverpool on two separate occasions (family friend lives just south of the city), and really, it takes about an afternoon to see everything you'd want to see... which is all taken care of on the Beatles' "Magical History Tour," and ending with a Ferry 'Cross the Mersey trip. Not sure what you'd do the rest of your vacation time.

And if you're not a Beatles fan, it's like going to Cooperstown, but you hate baseball.

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"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

When covering political issues esspecially, they are tending more and more to have only the liberal side represented by a 'guest'.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

I have a tingle up and down my legs that Rupert Murdoch had a hand in this.