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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 672033, member: 780"] Seems to me you are trying to create something out of nothing. Even if they are common talking points, all that suggests is they passed around a sheet to keep people from stirring up controversy when none exists. Something like this, "You may be approached by the press or internet bloggers to comment on a number of conference-related topics. All they are trying to do is fan flames hoping that someone will say something different or "controversial" so that they can feed that to the conspiracy theorints out there. Take a hint from Gordon Gee and don't say anything that can ever be seen as being false. All scenarios are possible. So just give them the non-commital answers below." The idea that this is some sort of softening of the target by press artillery is preposterous, it seems to me. [/QUOTE]