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Dear Glenn,
You're a real sweet kid but it's probably time to take the candle out of the window on your Meet the Press dream. Whatever shame NBC has, they are probably feeling it now that you continue to beat them over the head with this McCaffrey debacle.
The essence of the story falls somewhere near Nader's lament that the country has been overrun by corporate interests and our congress, executive, press, etc. Couldn't be more obvious or baldfaced than in the example here unless maybe the FISA thing has not completely slipped from your conciousness.
Look at the public officials forced to resign in India for mismanaging the Mumbai attacks, look at the protester takeover of the airports in Thailand, or if you are sitting down, that the Iraq parliament actually had a public debate about the troop status agreement and then pushed it off to a public referendum. What you will see the ingredient missing is the citizen response. If we could somehow harness that enthusiasm and commitment which gives abortion clinic bombings and apply it to democratic ideals well just think what we could accomplish here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Keep up the good work; you're not alone,
Conrad C. Elledge
