Brian Lamb for CBS Chair?

BrianLamb546.jpgPaul Bedard has rumors this morning that some around the city would like to see Brian Lamb, the brains and the beauty behind C-SPAN, take the anchor chair at CBS:

“Washington’s keeping an eye on CBS’s search for a new nightly news anchor and is eager for Black Rock to look beyond the obvious candidates like NBC’s Today cohost Katie Couric. Such as? C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. ‘I think that would be super,’ says a Bush insider. Lamb’s not so sure. ‘Some folks,’ he E-mails, ‘have been drinkin’ the spiked eggnog again.’”

So how about it? He certainly would have some gravitas, and there are millions (okay, probably hundreds) of people who love watching him already….

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