Our Golf Challenge to CNN

Do you know the REAL reason Beacon of Speech isn't successful? At our core, beneath Fred and Ted's brand of casual Libertarianism, we are as neurotic as they come.

We have only survived this long because we are mostly ignored. I think if someone took a hard run at me specifically, for example, we would fold like tents.

But the secret is, how would you hurt me?

If you came out and said "Fred Hunt's brand of journalism is sloppy and undisciplined," I wouldn't argue with you, you're right. The closest I've come to Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism is watching the Wildcats lose to Ohio State in football on TV.

If you came out and said "Beacon of Speech's videos are amateurish and lacking production value," yes, I admit it. We have no money, so we spend no money.

If you came out and said "Fred Hunt sucks at soccer," then broke down my game, I might not crawl out of my bed for a month.

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With that being said, CNN is now running live time updates that is the "disaster" of the Trump Presidency.

Listen, that won't work. You think Donald Trump cares about Ukraine? He doesn't.

You think Donald Trump cares about what happens to the average left-wing American? He doesn't.

You think Donald Trump even cares about his wife catching him cheating during on one of his many dalliances? He doesn't.

Let's say I was the President of CNN and had unlimited monetary resources. What I would do is leave Trump alone on the weekends, that's "his" time. But as leader of the free world, I would hope that Trump is putting in, at least, 60 hour weeks, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Intuition tells me he's not, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt. I get the impression that Donald Trump is one those guys that claims he's a "I work 24/7" guy.

Every day that Trump skips out of the office at noon and heads to the golf course, I would treat that like breaking news. I would send out helicopters and reporters, not to harass him about policy, but to critique his golf game.

Trump's on the course on a Wednesday afternoon? I would hire Jim Nance to judge his swing. I would carry that live. Every time the President shanks one into the woods, I would have a reporter out there questioning how he missed the fairway.

Every putt he missed, I would have a reporter there quizzing him about his putting as he walked between holes. Trump's Golf Game would become Must See TV. I wouldn't compare him to the average weekend Duffer, for as much as he plays, his peer group would be players on the lower rungs of the Senior Tour.

Many players I know in Ohio haven't even pulled their clubs out of the attic yet. Donald Trump has already spent a third of his days since Inauguration Day on the golf course, and it's barely even March. According to Penn Live, Trump is "on pace to spend well over $100 million golfing in 2025."

What's the point of such an exercise? I think it would be a ratings winner. Is Donald Trump actually any good at golf? Depends on who you ask. Trump defenders would cherish an up-close and personal view of the president. Detractors would relish every poor shot, every questionable course decision.

But more importantly, the golf scrutiny would annoy Trump to no end. For CNN, the cut that would wound the deepest would be the golf cut.

Donald Trump is firing "lazy" government workers as we speak? If Donald Trump was the Assistant Director of the the National Parks, putting in 30 hour work weeks at the office, with taxpayer-provided government housing, and golfing 4 days a week, would he be considered lazy?

Let's see what type of golf game the American people are spending their money on.