Just hours after Alan Cordle, proprietor of the controversial Foetry.com, revived the website out of anger over a “biased and poorly researched article in the New York Times” by business reporter Edward Wyatt quoting his opponents but not his supporters (see yesterday’s MobyLives news digest), the nationally broadcast National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation aired a segment on the Foetry controversy in which Neal Conan interviewed none other than Ed Wyatt, rather than speaking to Cordle or his opponents directly. But during the live broadcast, after Wyatt explained that he saw little wrong with the conflicts cited by Cordle (because “a lot of Harvard surgeons hire a lot of Harvard interns, a lot of Supreme Court justices that went to a certain school hire clerks from that school, and that doesn’t mean that those people aren’t qualified”), Conan solicited listener call-ins. He got one that he obviously hadn’t expected and left him clearly flustered: “Alan from Porland, Oregon.” Conan didn’t get it, so the caller had to explain he was the overlooked Alan Cordle, “the founder of Foetry.com? I didn’t know that this was going to be the subject of Talk of the Nation today,” he explained, “but I’m a regular listener.” He went on to tell a suddenly silent Wyatt that in almost any contest he’d ever heard of, “employees are never allowed to win.”