When Mickey Kaus isn't boring us with Nancy Pelosi news and reviews, he's handing it to CNN prez Jon Klein. Something about Klein agreeing that talking head programming was cheap and then not doing anything about it.

Who knew, when Klein declared he agreed "wholeheartedly" with Jon Stewart's attack on what Klein called "head-butting debate shows,"–and when he pledged to "report the news" and not "talk about the news"–that what he really meant to give us was Glenn Beck and Nancy Grace! … Ah, but that's CNN Headline News, you say, not Regular Pure Hard News Opinion-Free CNN itself. They're totally separate!** For the moment that's true. But thanks to Klein's visionary leadership, Regular Pure CNN has gone from being the second place cable network to being the third … wait, make that occasionally fourth place cable network, behind a surging (opinionated) MSNBC and Head-Buttin' Headline News itself! … If the "brash" head-butt format keeps delivering, how long before it infiltrates Regular Pure CNN? Sub-question: How much more expensive is it to produce Regular CNN than Headline News? Three times as much? Ten times? … Bonus question: Whatever happened to storytelling?

Lightening Round Question: Is ex-CNN anchor-cum-inspirational vlogger Daryn Kagan getting more viewers than her old network?