JUST A SHADE SHY OF 'BATTY' - Just a Minute for 01-28-09

Howdy on a Wednesday –

 

Here we are in the middle of the week already… and it’s only the second week for the new folks in town… and there seems to be a tone of edginess in the air. Plus – there’s the sound of a mighty double-dose steamroller warming up ready to flatten whatever gets in its way. But of course the driver wants to ‘do it gently’ so nobody hears the crushing sounds or gets alarmed.

 

The problem is he’s already alarmed half a dozen radio hosts with big and continuing daily audiences – and doesn’t seem to be giving himself the opportunity to ‘learn the ropes.’ That could be the result of the looooooong primary campaign. All the major papers have written about the “well-oiled” campaign that learned from their errors and smoothed things out as they went. The problem is Washington is not the primary campaign trail. It’s a hot-kennel jammed full of trained attack animals always primed for a BIG story… and feeling a little remorse (a very little I’d say) for their abandonment of their self-held supposed ‘objectivity.’

 

Anyone who has lived and worked on either side of the divide of the ‘real hard news world’ knows it gives no quarter. It’s no good whining about how biased the news operatives are – those are the facts of life. You might as well rail at the rivers for always flowing to the ocean. Until you learn to make water run uphill it’s always going to be that way.  What it takes to survive is learning how to paddle upstream faster than the current – or how to ‘make a portage’ to go around the rocky, rugged rapids in your path. Well – give that metaphor a rest for a while – and watch developments. But I must observe, I’ve never seen a shorter honeymoon between a CEO and his media.

 

Meanwhile the comic operetta, originating on the shores of Lake Michigan and echoing through the sacred halls of Lincoln’s Springfield, are just getting tuned up. It’s like a second ring of a three ringed circus. Distracting and sometimes sopping up a major part of the daily news feed just when the new people have come to town and were expecting to have a period of relative calm. Problem is they have set off a few fireworks of their own that once ignited kick off their own spectacle that could last a while.

 

Well, at least it’s a change from the hash and re-hash of the campaign trail. Let’s pray we all survive, especially while the boys who are *supposed* to be market experts continue to give every evidence of trying to ‘learn the ropes’ – while rewarding themselves on the job. Maybe an Ivy League business school could commence a course in the MBA curriculum why NOT introducing a new Jet into the start-up equation of a new venture is smart. Call it “Soothing Shareholders.”

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

JUST A SHADE SHY OF “BATTY”

MizP: Just a Minit – Did yawl haeah Dr. Krauthammer’s diagnosis?

Jack: About the Illinois Governor?

Homer: He’s an MD -- an he said he thanks th’ boyish Govner is, just a shade shy of “batty.”

Jack: That means he’s standing right on the edge of insane.

MizP: So what kin they do about hit?

BB: Th’ boys at the Bait Shop ‘n’ Sushi Bar figger hits time ta' quit a-beatin’ th’ mulberry bush slap     

               th’ cuffs on ‘im.

MizP: Well he shore stirred up a bunch of crazies on Miz WAwas’ TV show…

Homer: You tawkin’ ‘bout THE VIEW?

MizP: Rite -- tha-ut Miz BeHar is fer behind Gov. Blago-jo-vitch.

Homer: She’s batty too?

MizP: She keeps a eggin’ him on… a tryin’ ta' git him ta' go a Richard Nixon emmetation

               an holler out “Ah a-um *NOT* a crook!”

Jack: Oh -- that’s about the worst thing she could get him to say.

MizP: Ah know tha-ut Mr. Jack – an I thank he come ta' his senses enough to stop short of

               plungin’ ove-uh th’ edge.

BB: So whats gonna happen now, Mr. Jack.

Jack: Hmm… he’s accomplished one thing – putting himself right in the center of the spotlite.

Homer: Well – maybe that’ll slow him down some.

Jack: We’ll see. What else MizPearl?

MizP: Homer don’t have his job yet … an they’s still one cab-net post open.

BB: Hit’s th’ one Gov. Richardson took’n his name off of.

Homer: Oh… don’t run me thru that wringer again.

MizP: But Homer – we want’s you to make good.

Homer: Hit’s like whut Prezidint Lincoln said about th’ man who was bein’ tarred & feathered

               And run out of town on a rail.

Jack: What was that Homer?

Homer: He said if it t’weren’t fer th’ honor of th’ thang – he’d just as soon not!

Jack: Oh oh… we’ gotta go… I’m Jack Buttram

 (END)

 

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