I appreciate ajerseyguy's connections, but his insights are a little over the top. Honestly before reading that, the whole "announcing the conference so close to Newtown" thing never came up that I recall. And let's be honest, Gavitt would never have even been given an interview if it wasn't for his last name. He doesn't have nearly the connections that the others seem to have.

"No one said that Gavitt should have been hired. But to not even talk to him beyond a perfunctory interview is also mind-boggling."

I mean...why? We should give people interviews based on who their father was?