Where's Wendell, TIME's 'Ideal Whistleblower' ?

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A business news website notes, "Since early summer Wendell Potter, a former public relations executive for the health insurer CIGNA, has testified before Congress, given speeches and granted interviews aimed at boosting the cause of health care reform and especially a strong public alternative to private industry. He's done it with the backing of Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive-leaning watchdog that seeks to expose and counteract business and government PR campaigns. Since CMD appointed him Senior Fellow on Health Care earlier this year, Potter has been busy. Time magazine profiled him in September -- and President Obama alluded to some of his comments (though not naming him) in his televised national health care speech to Congress Sept. 9. ... In one mid-September weekend Potter turned up on shows with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, CNN's Anderson Cooper, HBO's Bill Maher -- even Fox Business News. He shows little sign of letting up. 'I have never ever seen somebody get the sort of media attention that Wendell has,' says CMD founder John Stauber. Potter's story is probably the biggest reason. Time called him 'the ideal whistleblower.'"