Dear Mr. Stephanopoulos,

As tomorrow's "This Week" will find you in Indianapolis hosting a live town hall meeting for Hillary Clinton, allow me to offer my congratulations and advice. I am crossing my fingers that the blogosphere, in its infinitely mysterious ways, forwards this to your inbox before sunrise Sunday.

First, congratulations on scoring a journalistic coup! It's not every day that a former White House press secretary gets to host an important pre-primary campaign event for the First Lady whose husband's first term launched his television career. After your performance moderating the Pennsylvania debate, you'll have a time of it squeezing this new feather next to the PRESS card in your fedora.

Speaking of the press, I understand it was not entirely kind to you after that last debate. In fact, many, many, many, many respected journalists were rather negative about you. And about your co-moderator, Charles Gibson. And your network, too.

But surely I digress by bringing up such an uncomfortable subject. Forgive me.

It must have been terribly embarrassing when other, far more experienced journalists took you to the woodshed and spanked you so publicly for harping on Sen. Obama's "electability" and failing to ask any substantive questions about "issues" for 45 minutes.

But again, I am dwelling on the unseemly and the irrelevant. I apologize.

You were right when you said public and peer outrage "goes with the territory." A pioneer such as yourself could see it no other way.

My advice is to resist the primordial urge that must be pounding in your brain by now. No, please don't subject Sen. Clinton to the same treatment as Sen. Obama received. Trust me, it won't prove you're a fair and balanced kind of journalist. That's obvious.

No, my advice is to stick to the issues with Sen. Clinton. Of course, her supporters at the rally will probably be hammering her with some tough questions, but don't let the grilling that she may take about Rev. Wright stop you from asking your own questions if you absolutely feel you have to and, of course, if there is enough time between the commercial breaks.

Ask Sen. Clinton about the Magnequench sale to the Chinese and why her ads never mention that her husband was the one who cleared the deal in 1995. Ask her about the Bayh memo relating to that deal.

And if you would, ask her about her husband's interest in TDS Logistics, the global outsourcing company, and what she would do as president to restore the 2,000 or so Indiana jobs that TDS helped its Indiana clients export.

Be sure to ask if she will pledge to release her family's income tax schedules showing foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and other items of interest.

Then go back and ask her about Magnequench again and if being commander-in-chief means sending more high-tech, military production work to China.

That's about it, Mr. Stephanopoulos. I wish you the best at Hillary's televised pre-election house party. Be sure to bring back some Tupperware for your wife. Or some handguns.

And if it goes poorly, well, you've still got Washington politics to fall back on. I'm certain tomorrow's demonstration of your talents will show you haven't lost your touch.