D Magazine profile/interview

Mr. Davis-

My name is Barrett Brown, and I've been asked by Tim Rogers at D Magazine to do a profile on you for publication in an upcoming issue. The piece would be short (about 1,500 words) and I've already gotten all of the background material that would be necessary for an article of that length (I attended the rally at Hillcrest the other evening, incidentally), but I was wondering if you'd be willing to answer a couple of quick questions, which I've pasted below my signature. Feel free to give me a ring or e-mail me if you have any questions of your own, and if there's anything else you'd like to address, go ahead and add it in at will.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302

1. Is there significant danger of the Tea Party movement being effectively co-opted by establishment Republicans, or is it more likely that the Tea Party will have a lasting and positive impact on the GOP establishment and the manner in which Republicans govern? Or is it too soon to tell?

2. You wrote recently about Obama's decision to reduce America's nuclear arsenal in tandem with Russia. What do you think motivates those who speak darkly of nuclear weapons as whole rather than differentiating between those possessed by the U.S. and those possessed by Russia, or who regularly talk of eliminating nuclear weapons altogether? Is it simple naiveté or something else altogether?

3. Speaking of moral equivalence, there seems to have been a significant rise in rhetoric against Israel on such occasions as it reacts against outside threats in which that nation's actions are equated with those of Nazi Germany. Is such deliberate use of that kind of terminology the result of mere sloppy thinking or is it something worse?

4. Which national pundits do you think deserve wider attention?