<VV> Ralph Nader

[Robert Marlow]

Jim, I too reached the conclusion some time ago that Ralph Nader was 
truly motivated by his convictions and not by self-interest.  Such 
motivation is, of course, an admirable thing.

But his sense of public service was not to research the truth of a 
subject, but to seize upon one side of an argument and defend that side, 
excluding any evidence that might counter his position.  That was his 
training as a lawyer.

Unsafe at any Speed was not a sober review of auto safety.  It could 
have been, but it was not.  It was a selective, prosecutorial argument.

That one-sidedness taints, in my view, any purity of his motives.

--Bob