The MSM (main stream media) must think we have nothing else to do.  No lives to lead.  Can’t tell the difference between Comedy Central and MSNBC.

  What if, all the sudden in the middle of the Super Bowl, Drew Brees left the huddle, grabbed the referee’s mic and started telling jokes?

  What if Jeff Haniewich said, in the middle of an important weathercast on a pending snow storm, “Hey… I just flew in from Lynchburg and boy are my arms tired!”

  Yeah… you get my point. 

  It’s out of place.

  That’s what I’ve seen the past few days from some in the national media and at the White House over this whole Sarah Palin writing notes on her hand thing.

  And really none of its been funny.

  Whether it be Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC, or Gibbs during a press briefing, just tell me the news.

  What’s the latest?

  I’m a busy guy.

  I don’t have time to sit through jokes. 

  You can demonstrate your keen sense of humor to your colleagues, like most of us all do at the office.

  But you don’t do that during the big sales pitch to get that account you really need, preparing a classroom right before the SOLs, right before you sit down with an important patient at doctor’s office.

  So Sarah Palin wrote down some bullet points on her hand?

  So what?

  I remember getting caught without a note pad during a breaking news situation in South Carolina.

  They came to me live.

  You know what I did?

  Jotted down three bullet points on my hand.

  I guess what I’m saying to the main stream media is don’t mistake us [your viewers] as something we’re not.

  Yeah those on the left like John Stewart’s humor on Comedy Central.  And on the right many enjoy Rush Limbaugh’s jingles during his show.

  But you’re not John Stewart.

  You’re not Rush Limbaugh.

  You’re a journalist.

  So act like one when the camera’s on.