Comments made by the great and the good across the US are often a litmus test for whether a proposed ruling gets made or unmade, even one as powerful as the FCC Open Set Top initiative. And if comments rule, then this piece of FCC shenanigans is being viewed as government interference, pure and simple and it won’t pass unchanged. The latest mouths to issue their two pennies worth are the Consumer Watchdog association and AT&T, and for very different reasons this week they say the ruling should not go ahead. The Consumer Watchdog makes the point that while it agrees with FCC reasoning behind the plan, the idea of allowing companies such as Google and Roku to have access…