Friends, For what it may be worth, I don't think that calling someone "a stunningly unimpresive (sic) figure" is an insult, as such. I took it as a statement of Gautam's true experience of the man. Gautam was stunned by how unimpressed he was with Jim Wallis, is how I heard it. No big deal, as far as I'm concerned.
I'm unimpressed with just about everybody on television these days (or at least I was when I still watched, about a year ago), which made me more than a little reluctant to go on camera myself. And that's just what I talked to Jim Wallis about when I met him. But finding them unimpressive isn't an insult, it's just how I respond. I don't think it's appropriate to disagree with the response -- it's Guatam's response and it is what it is. I've had a different experience of Jim Wallis, which doesn't make either of us right or wrong... it just means that he makes different impressions on us. In other words, to me, this wasn't about issues on which we might truly disagree. By the way, for those of you who are in the Bay Area, Wallis will speak at Grace Cathedral on Sunday morning. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
