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Julian Sanchez | October 26, 2005

Nick Gillespie works himself up into a meth-induced rage and fires back at Newsweek's editor.

Update: Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker responds to Gillespie's response:

Dear Nick

I never chided On the Media for hosting a critical conversation on this issue. In fact, in a portion of my note to Bob and Brooke that they chose not to include on the air, I said that I thought the debate was fair game and that reasonable people could disagree about the extent of the meth crisis. My only beef was your contending that Newsweek would publish a cover story without any statistics to back it up. You can parse what you said all you want, but that was clearly the implication that you left with everyone I know who listened to the show. Beyond that, I had no intention, and have none now, of engaging you or Shafer in an extended public discussion of this subject. As usual, we've been praised for our reporting by some experts and attacked by others, but that's par for the course for us when we take on controversial subjects.

Regards,
Mark

And Gillespie's final note in the exchange:

Mark,

Thanks for your response. I respectfully disagree that it's "parsing" to reiterate what I actually said or to throw into question whether the stats you cited supported your story.

Yrs,

Nick