> THEY basically just laughed about him, saying that his name would be coming up and hinting
When you say THEY, so you mean T Paine and Robin Grist ? or do you mean the interviewer and PR 'people' at Crowdsource ?
The speech is pre-printed and distributed before the fact so our Representatives in Washington who are illiterate and/or disinterested can follow along without their constituents realizing they are either and/or both.
Obviously, this doesn't help them when they sit on their hands through the whole speech anyway.