Bob Kaliban: Tom Skyler

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• Tom Skyler : Good evening, America. This is Tom Skyler. We're coming to you from Moscow, Russia. When I first mentioned the idea of coming here, the network brass got scared. They said, "Tom, why take a chance. You're the hottest property in television, number one in news, bigger than Barbara Walters." All right, granted. "It's the bicentennial year," they said. "You should do a show from Lexington and Concord, not Leningrad and Kiev." At a risk to my own career, I said to these network biggies, "Not for me." That's not what I do, folks. I'm a maverick. So be it. But I ask you ... what better way to toast the bicentennial than to show what it's like on the other side of that coin we call democracy. With a capital "D" and that rhymes with "C" and that stands for Commie.