Remember that guy who wanted the fetal death reporting?

[docwebster]

Apparently, his poor widdle feewings are still hurt. As the wise and holy Eschaton puts it:

"Anyway, basically Cosgrove is upset that Maura actually told people about the bill he introduced without first running it by him. He seems to believe that's actually an obligation."

MORA KUEHNE (misspelling by ABC on MORA)

I don't think that any citizen should have to wait for a legislator's permission to share her concerns about legislation. I mean, it's - once you introduce a bill into the legislature, it's part of the public record.

JOHN COSGROVE

I've dealt with newspapers and radio stations and television media. And I have yet to have one reporter just run a story without running it by me.

(Also, as Eschaton puts it, the Nightline reporter seems to sympathize!)

JOHN DONVAN

(Off Camera) Well, Kuehne did send Cosgrove one e-mail. The one he explained he didn't see for several days. But beyond that, there is something of an ethical question. Kuehne is, as she says, a private citizen whose blog never attracted more than a few hundred readers on any regular basis. But if she has the power to be read around the world, as this episode proves she has, is she still just some private citizen? Does she have an obligation to tell someone she's writing about that she has an audience?

I've got your answer, dimwit: no. Not just no, but FUCK NO!

Comments

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

He's a public servant, for fuck's sake. (Yeah, I know. He probably doesn't know from the servant part eithe. But it *is* part of his job description.) No, he *isn't* owed notice before someone mentions something he's *Introduced into the record* and is trying to make a fucking law.

The sniveling assholery of the neo-cons is seemingly bottomless.

Gessi