Colin Cowherd...

ESPN Radio show host, Colin Cowherd, needs a smack upside the head, followed by some honest insults to put him in his place. He hosts the daily program, The Herd. Why people would herd after him, I haven't the slightest idea.

Here's a man (kind of) who often refers to himself as the smartest man in radio, frequently cuts callers off who don't agree with his perspective on an issue, and says things in reference to callers like, "I get callers that may believe they've thought up something profound while thinking about it for 30 seconds at their desk. Meanwhile, I prepare for this two hours every day. This is my job. Therefore, I'm right, you're wrong. Get over it."

The show is not truly "news" oriented. It's not like a history professor is the host and gives factually-based lectures on the civil war. No. It's an opinion-oriented show. You know what they say about opinions. Also, there are typically facts to back up any and every opinion. Support the death penalty? Against it? I can guarantee you that there are "facts" from different sources to support your belief. So, Colin prepares his "spin zone" on a daily basis. So what? That makes him right and everybody else wrong? If he was to claim that the capital of Kansas is Topeka and callers stated otherwise, then yes, he'd have reason to complain and reason to say, "Hey, I'm right on this one and here are my sources." But, that's not the case. He usually comes forward with his own personal gripes toward the likes of Michigan head football coach, Lloyd Carr and Atlanta Falcons' quarterback, Michael Vick, amongst others. While I agreed that Michigan didn't deserve a rematch with Ohio State in this past year's title game, I also didn't agree with the Lloyd Carr bashing session. Carr has run a very successful program in Ann Arbor. Just because he didn't agree to appear on the Carr-bashing show with Cowherd, doesn't mean Cowherd should insult the guy time and time again. Even though there are some inside sources (actual journalists) who've claimed that Michael Vick's seemingly "far-fetched" story concerning the water bottle incident has been consistent from the day it happened (yeah, they actually spoke to him about it), Cowherd went off on the star quarterback, how he should just "shut up", and how the quarterback's story now completely contradicts that from what he said directly following the incident.

Maybe Colin should be the one shutting up. If he was Socrates giving a history lecture directly out of a textbook, then okay, slam your very own listeners and callers as much as you'd like for their false statements, but he's no Socrates and he's doing anything but giving an accurate history lesson to his students. He's just letting his opinions be known, ranting, and not bashing away from a biased spin zone. Based on all of this (and then some), he should not cut his callers off, claim that he's Mr. Know-It-All and they're Mr. (or Mrs.)-Know-It-Nothings. They know and don't know just as much as Cowherd himself. That name does seem pretty fitting, though, doesn't it? For Colin is very much a "Cowherd" in regard to facing views different than his own.