Heh, there was a series of "Jeopardy" shows a few months ago that featured famous newspeople/talking head contestants, including Anderson Cooper.
Most of them were surprisingly dumb, especially Tim Russert and Maria Bartiromo.
Anderson Cooper did very well, though. So did Peggy Noonan, whom I despise more than Aaron Brown. (They're both smug, and Peggy's politics are better; but she just grates...yechhhh.) Ari Fleisher was the smartest contestant.
Ari doesn't suprise me. He kicked butt in the daily news conferences and you can't think that fast and not be pretty smart. Anderson strikes me as a deep-thinker... and I'm not 100% convinced he is a died-in-the-wool liberal.