Let’s see if I can figure out the best example of stupidity in this whole Baby Einstein kerfuffle.

(In case you’re unaware, a group called the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood (CCCF) took issue with the Baby Einstein company [and Disney] because the company could not prove that watching its videos, alone, made children viewers smarter. Julie Clark [a Grosse Pointe native, incidentally] came out in defense of the product she created, acknowledging that, yes, the videos don’t magically make your kid smarter — you still might actually have to be a parent in order for that to happen. Now, under pressure, Baby Einstein is offering refunds to those who purchased the DVDs.)

How to find the best example of stupidity amid all this insanity? Can you help me decide? Please vote in the comments section:

- The parents who thought putting their children in front of a television for hours on end would actually make their kids smarter.

- The children’s activist group who had the courage to speak truth to idiocy by pointing out that, “This possibly can’t be so! Someone needs to be held accountable! Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?!?!?”

- Julie Clark, for even wasting her time by responding to — and thereby legitimizing — such a ridiculous gripe from a group with a clear agenda who was obviously orchestrating the best publicity stunt since Balloon Boy.

- The Baby Einstein Company, for folding like a card-table chair under such freakishly lame pressure, and basically admitting, “Yes, our videos don’t make your kids smarter,” even though they never claimed to… AND offering financial recompense!

- The PR counsel to Baby Einstein, who are perfectly content to let the tail wag the dog, and who think that Baby Einstein somehow comes out looking good in all of this.

- The people who instinctively believe that they are entitled to a handout as compensation for decisions that they, themselves, freely make.

FULL DISCLOSURE: My stepson virtually grew up on Baby Einstein. Did I think he was absorbing valuable intelligence by watching these videos? Absolutely not. They served as a port in the parenting storm. Sometimes, you just need a little sanity when you’re raising two children under the age of 5. Baby Einstein videos provide that, in an environment that is not entirely mind-numbing frivolity. There are certainly worse children’s entertainment options out there, but Baby Einstein is NOT a substitute for parenting and other educational stimuli.

You’d think that would go without saying. Apparently not.