The real problem is not that they couldn't get preferential treatment. The problem is that there is no way to get treatment at all. If they hadn't have asked

The real problem is not that they couldn't get preferential treatment. The problem is that there is no way to get treatment at all. If they hadn't have asked Eric Schmidt, then we could have wondered whether they had really tried everything. Since they did, it's obvious that Google simply has a problem that they're not interested in fixing.