Friday, July 06, 2007
HERE'S A PREDICTION
I'd bet you that none of the folks currently slamming Governor Romney for not single-handedly putting a stop to porn in Marriott hotel rooms have ever served as a corporate board member. But apparently if you get enough evangelicals together who don't understand corporate governance but deeply (and rightly) hate porn--and add in an AP reporter who never misses a chance to cause trouble for Governor Romney--a non-story can get attention.
The stuff that is available in hotel rooms these days--not to mention on the Internet--makes me sick. But to seriously argue it's within the purview of one member of a for-profit Board of Directors to champion such an issue evinces a total misunderstanding of directors' role. Lay boards, by definition, are not involved in day-to-day operations. Members typically have their own firms to manage--that is what they are immersed in day-to-day. What they do is come together periodicially, get deluged in information, and make extremely high-level decisions. They don't ask if the scrambled eggs are any good, the elevator mirrors are clean, or the TVs are porn-free. It's just not their job, no matter how important non-runny eggs, non-streaky mirrors, or non-disgusting programming may be to them.
Redstate has more.