(1) I bet NPR, like many other news outlets, when reporting on citizens contacting their elected officials, don’t bother to usually specify or separate out the form-letters. But now, because it’s the media getting such things, they need to call attention to it?

(2) On the substance of what those form-letters addressed, they give a rather stupid response which demonstrates either a lack of comprehension as to what words communicate, a defensive posture against any criticism of their priesthood, or both.

More dinosaurs. They’re everywhere.