My Email to MSNBC

Date: 07/12/05 16:45:12
To: viewerservices@msnbc.com
Cc: hhewitt@hughhewitt.com; themuse@theanticmuse.com; nick@gawker.com
Subject: Feedback: MSNBC Wonkette v Hewitt

Your decision to read this email will most likely not bring any career advancement to you if you are the sad individual who is tasked with reading junk mail like this. If you happen the be the real McCoy addressed or cc'ed, I am quite sure you'll find no reason to respond to the call for action that this email requests, nor will it enrich you or edify you in any way, so I'm quite sure you have stopped reading and hit the delete key by now.

I am emailing because I am disappointed with the segment that you aired concerning the Rove revelations, and the decision you made to have Ms. Cox and Mr. Hewitt as guests.

It's not your fault that Mr. Hewitt, based on what he said during his appearance, has not a scintilla of a moral compass. That's not MSNBC's fault, of course. However, it is your editorial decision you are making to have him on that reflects on your TV network.

The choice of Ms. Cox as a guest, is logical to some degree. She is attractive, a hot property, thinking, witty, and often shows the decency of someone not restrained by serving the partisan politics that Mr. Hewitt believes is necessary for obtaining his financial goals. Unfortunately for those of us who don't appreciate the propaganda that you and rest of the MSM provide us, Ms. Cox is not the appropriate guest to be having as counterpoint to the Fascists like Mr. Hewitt. Come to think of it, who really is the appropriate person to counter Fascism. It is a conundrum.

Getting back to my point: Wonkette is a social, satirical blog which only provides balance because it doesn't serve the current Regime. Might I suggest someone such as Bill Moyers as a reasonable alternative to the more light weight footprint of Ms. Cox.

I realize that if I really expect this email to have an impact, I would need to contact the advertisers on MSNBC, or somehow contact your audience. Only when your egregious behavior hits you in the pocketbook, will you begin to think about the err of your ways.