You've heard the phrase: Preaching to the choir. What good does that do? Here's another question: what good does it do when the preacher listens only to the choir? Consider the following.
Congressman Russ Carnahan says he wants to hear what Americans think of the proposed health care reform package. Previously, he held a public forum; it did not go well...
We are getting so many emails and responses to my interviews with Congressman Carnahan, Congressman Shimkus and Senator McCaskill .. that I am opening this blog .. just for those comments.
Most of these came as direct email to me .. not our blog response ... so I wanted to make sure they were available for reading.
Again, some are very angry with me.
I still haven't been able ...
I have spent the weekend agonizing over the Congressman Carnahan interview and public response; I replayed the interview several times in my mind ... against remarks from critics. Over 4 decades, I've done hundreds of interviews and thousands of stories ... and I can always look back and find something different, maybe better that I could have done. In this case ... where I took w...