Earlier today I received a phone call from my son. He had a car accident. It was very, very minor and no one was hurt. Just one of those things that happens once in a while.
I turned the television on as usual to hear this at 10:00 PM at night. It startled me to say the least.
AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again everyone.
Here is an uncomfortable truth and a journalistic lesson. You can't resist looking at a car wreck on the freeway and we can't resist talking about a car wreck in a news program. That in a sentence is why much of the post election coverage these last two days has been about the Democrats and where they are and what they must do.
But the larger story is, of course, about the Republicans and what they want to do. It is their field now, healthy majorities in the Congress, a president with a decisive win. What will they do with that? We won't forego our love of the car wreck tonight but we won't ignore the car that sailed smoothly by either.
And so the whip begins at the White House where the president today was driving that car in his first post election news conference...
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It was calculated. It alarmed me to realize someone knew what was going on with my family and that someone hated me that much. I spoke with an attorney the next day about options concerned for my sons with skepticism that this could actually be about him. He stated every incident where the police are involved is a matter of public record. It would be competely reasonable to assume someone who was obsessed with hatred of me and was in the news media would have access to that record. The attorney wanted to know how anyone connected with this would know my son's name as it was different than mine. I simply explained I had shared pictures of my sons with Aaron after an exchange of e-mails including pictures. I was quite proud of them. So, they would have all that information.
Yup.
