[alnick]

I think that almost everyone who responded to you on this thread has suggested that the significance of the story is that Ritter is blackmailable, though only one actually used that word. I think that that is what almost everyone has been trying to say about this situation.

[My2Cents]

Perhaps. But what I saw in most people's post was akin to a feeding frenzy. I was responding to the feeding frenzy, not the suggestion that he is blackmailable.