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Since Glenn was so kind as to provide a means for contacting the playa (remember, don't hate the playa, hate the game!), I decided to email her. I hope many of you do the same. Won't change the outcome, but will annoy the bejesus out of her if her inbox gets flooded....hehe
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Ms. Koles,
I'm writing to you from a small, midwestern city in Missouri to let you know how saddened I am by your behaviors as they relate to your and your company's refusal to run the Blue America television ads which discuss Chris Carney's actions (or inactions) regarding telecom amnesty.
It's difficult to conceive of anything less American and more fascist than for a large cable television conglomerate to refuse to run ads on its stations which are critical of a legislator because your company doesn't like the content discussed or because your company financially supports that legislator and his corrupt actions. I know you and your superiors have rationalized your decisions through your attorneys in what can only be viewed as obviously and transparently absurd reasoning, and those actions only prove how insidious and corrupt your company really is.
But what I wonder is: how, as an American, and as someone who believes in the American Dream and the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution, can you live with yourself and sleep at night when you, personally, are a central part in suppressing legitimate political debate and standing with those who censor that which they don't like? What kind of civics lessons are you teaching your children by your actions?
I'd wager you don't give it much thought, because that would cause some rather painful introspection into what you do and why you do it. And we all know how introspection and having a conscious has no place at the table of big media when there are profits to be made and candidates to be funded.
