Excerpt: "Like Pelley, he would have called out the bullies who are decimating the broadcast today. I can imagine him, a cigarette hanging from his mouth, likening [Weiss] to a Soviet
apparatchik doing the bidding of the central committee." She reminds us that the Lyndon Johnson administration came pret-ty close to getting the Canadian-born Safer canned for the Cam Ne report from Vietnam (he would be barred from the region for a time by the Marines):