To whom it may concern:

First, I wish to apologise for what you may perceive as "undue and unnecessary intrusion" into your busy schedule and routine.

In any event, please allow me to proceed:

In the interest of Truth, Common Sense and the Greater Collective Good of the Nation and its Peoples, I would like to ask you, as a Patriotic and Right-Thinking American, to Please Explain @ your soonest opportunity:

• whether it is true that you issue prepared and scripted, even to the point of nuanced, "talking points" for conservative-leaning talk radio and TV hosts, columnists and blog writers;
• how much it costs to dissemiate said "talking points" on your part, especially where fax and e-mail services are used;
• how the daily "talking points" guidance is arrived @ from day to day (in other words, whether some sort of formula is used to determine the tone and phrasing therefor, the better for "winning of hearts and minds" among especially the ignorant and easily-influenced as are open to suggestion all too easily);
• whether you have recommended scripts used to advance the day's "talking points" to ensure maximum impact among the "movers and shakers" in Washington and elsewhere;
• whether you offer payola to especially radio and TV hosts advancing your daily "talking points" according to the daily guidance in this respect, and in what amounts;
• how much payola is paid out in an average year, and the average amounts therefor;
• whether such payola is paid out of your organisation's funds, or through so-called "pure trusts" based offshore "for tax reasons;"
• whether the rates for such payola are based on how carefully such comments "stick to the script," so to speak, based on any monitoring thereof you conduct; and
• what sort of "guidance" you have to especially radio and TV hosts (but also columnists and bloggers) in receipt of the daily "talking points" advice to avoid attracting reader, listener or viewer suspicions that "cash-for-comments" arrangements are influencing the tone and content of their favourite TV and radio programmes, columns or weblogs--and, if such suspcions are raised, what sort of steps should be taken to be on the defensive.

The public interest compels me to ask the above of you, and I sincerely hope and trust you will be forthcoming within measurable distance with honest and sincere answers--not manufactured platitudes and bromides seeking to protect yourself from suspicion. There are those amongst us that know about just such possibilities.

Otherwise, can you Please Explain what prevents your disclosing the answers @ this time, provided that clear and compelling public interest can be justified (let alone "trade secrets" or suchlike other patsy).

Your cooperation would be greatly appreciated.

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MEMO TO READERS: Your Correspondent encourages you to please share this Open Letter with your friends and e-mail contacts--not to mention such causes and movements you support and identify with.

(Hopefully including such of the conservative persuasion, as are the target therefor.)

However, if you can help it, please avoid recourse to "spam," as the device can only prove ineffective to the point of backfiring and undermining the intentions of same.