Reply #139: thanks for that sparkling bit of research

[mojowork_n]

I had considered e-mailing the man, to ask him to elaborate on 2 sentences in his dreary little attack piece:

"He had a chance to tell the president and much of important (and self-important) Washington things it would have been good for them to hear."

"...he spoke truth to power. This is a tired phrase, as we all know..."

I'd thought about asking, "OK, so if *you'd* had the chance to tell all those people.... what would have been worth saying..."

and

"Since when is speaking the truth so tiresome?"

But you saved me the trouble. It would have been an empty gesture. Like sending a telegram to Rush Limbaugh, asking him to drop the attitude, come clean, and maybe yank that stainless steel yard arm out of his ass, for just a minute...
There isn't a surgeon on the planet capable of that sort of extraction.