Talk About Piling On!

There is a classic scene in the movie "Airplane" in which a passenger who becomes hysterical is slapped and warned to quiet down by a flight attendant, to no avail, only to be hit and shaken by a second "voice of reason." The camera pans down the aisle to reveal a line of passengers awaiting their shot, one of whom is holding a baseball bat.

I feel a little like that abused passenger these days, as the industrys top dogs line up to "slap" me for my "overreaction" to the probe by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

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