Campbell Brown: CNN's O'Reilly, Olbermann

CNN's Campbell Brown will be head-to-head with MSNBC's Olbermann and Fox's O'Reilly after the election with a marquee show showcasing Brown's newly-found ass-kicking. Her break-out moments: 1) When she hammered McCain flack Tucker Bounds), and 2) her "Free Sarah Palin" from sexism rant that legend has it, she hand wrote on a doctor's office magazine page she ripped out of the waiting room. Like legendary screenwriter Joe Esterhas's "Basic Instinct" plot he scribbled on a matchbook, cocktail napkin or whatever. Brown's self-serving ulterior motive in swathing herself in the sexism mantle was to force the McCain campaign to throw Palin to the media wolves:



Jacques Steinberg NYT: In an interview in her CNN office, wearing jeans, her laceless Converse All-Stars tucked beneath a desk as seemingly cluttered as the cable landscape, Ms. Brown went to some pains to try to separate her approach from that of her cable competitors. “They’re partisans,” she said of Mr. O’Reilly and Mr. Olbermann in particular. “You’re not going to see me ever be partisan. I’ll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.”David Doss, senior executive producer of “Election Center,” said that Ms. Brown can be as relentless with colleagues as she is with a reluctant guest.“ ‘Come on, Candy, come on, John, come on, Roland,’ ” he said, stringing together Ms. Brown’s recent on-air proddings to Candy Crowley, John King and Roland Martin, all of CNN. “She is horrible to work with,” Mr. Doss added, laughing. “She challenges everyone.”

Translation: Campbell Brown is a bitch..