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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 02:35 PM
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7. Look, everyone, be FIRM but don't come off like a raving lunatic
You'll just get your email deleted as soon as it becomes apparent that you're going off on him.

MUCH BETTER to be polite and reasonable enough that it gets read. Please. Otherwise you're wasting your time, or at best just venting your spleen (and in a vaccum since, I'm tellin' ya, it won't get read).

Here's what Ray McGovern wrote him:

Ray McGovern to Dana Milbank

Dear Dana,

What's happened to you? You were often quite good when you were on the Post's White House beat...perceptive—occasionally even courageous—especially in exposing White House dishonesty. Is that why you were taken off that beat and assigned yesterday to trivialize the historic proceedings in the Capitol basement and Congressman Conyers' courage in convening them?

more here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/showstory.php?pn_sid=295
and excerpt above on the home page here: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
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