LTE: "Eni owes us an apology for holding American Samoa up to scorn"
August 13, 2007

Reprinted from Samoa News

"Faleomavaega's Colbert Interview"

Dear Editor,

I read Faleomavaega's press release about appearing on the Stephen Colbert Report show. You don't have to wait two weeks to see it down here. If you have a computer and are on-line, go to http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_colbert_report/index.jhtml and you can see Colbert's interview, if you can stand the embarrassment.

Frankly, I don't see why Eni would brag about it. If he wants to make a fool out of himself personally, sitting there without a coat in his trademark bolo tie, that's fine by me but when he allows his office to be demeaned and the territory to be ridiculed, he steps over the line.

That's why the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus told freshmen members to avoid doing this show.

Read about it here:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=22223
I guess he didn't give the same advice to senior members because he didn't think they needed it. With all these members of Congress avoiding the Colbert show, no wonder he got on.

Faleomavaega owes us an apology for holding American Samoa up to scorn.

Signed,

Enraged voter