Moses:
We are long past the point where dealing with subversives is with kinder gentler conversation. The British Crown has wished to retake what had, in their opinion, been theirs since Colonial days. Some of us have seen this personally first hand and through the actions of our forbears who fled rather than remaining as subjects to royalty.
Please do not take the approach that British royalty is no longer relevant. There are ample instances to the contrary. Ask yourself why Alan Greenspan was “knighted” by the Queen to become “Sir Alan Greenspan”. That, by the way, treads upon our Constitution’s restrictions on accepting titles of nobility.
If Napolitano was to take the approach that you suggest, he would get painted into a corner, just as they tried to do with Jones, so unsuccessfully that they booted him off the program. His arguments were just too compelling to respond to.
You have to show a little more confidence in the intelligence of viewers. When they see someone being interviewed terminated prematurely, it demonstrates that in order to cut their losses they would need to end the discussion.