The first thing the Republicans ought to do if they retake the House is defund NPR (aka National Palestine Radio). Anyone ever hear what a “male” NPR reader sounds like? (Hint – he is the prototypical “girlie man”). Recently NPR tried to get Mara Eliason to leave the Fox News All Stars on Special Report with Bret Baier because Fox is “biased” which coming from NPR is hilarious. Notice that those who trash capitalism – George Soros, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Ted Turner, etc. have no problems n using the capitalist system to enrich themselves. As for the late Joan Kroc (the widow of McDonalds founder Ray Kroc – and former owner of the San Diego Padres):
1. Thanks for poisoning the world with your rotten hamburgers (as former Padre pitcher Goose Gossage once said).
2. She was always a leftie
As Jonah Goldberg points ought – to use Bernie Madoff as an example of capitalism as “having a bad year” is similar to using Michael Vick and O.J. Simpson as an example that Black Americans have had a “bad year”. The faults of “capitalism” (greed, etc.) are not capitalist faults but humanity’s faults.
by Jonah Goldberg
On the last day of 2009, that awful year, I was listening to a report on National Public Radio. Reporter Tamara Keith presented a by now familiar recap of the worst financial and corporate scandals of the decade, from Enron and Martha Stewart to Tyco and Bernie Madoff. It was a depressing slog of greed, venality and theft. When the report was over, “Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep summarized it with a tart, “the decade in capitalism.”
I don’t want to single out Inskeep, since he was doing what pretty much the entire media establishment has done, particularly of late: reducing “capitalism” to its alleged sins.
Madoff: Not a poster boy for all financiers.And that’s the point. There are few areas of life where a thing responsible for so much good gets so little credit for it.
Imagine if I were to collect the most infamous deeds of African-Americans over the last decade — say Michael Vick’s dog-fighting scandal and O.J. Simpson’s most recent criminal exploit — and then put a bow on it with the phrase “the decade in black America.”
What if I did the same thing with Jews? Bernie Madoff, the face of Jewish America! Do the scandals of Rod Blagojevich, Charlie Rangel and John Edwards define the Democratic Party from 2000 to 2010? Do Abu Ghraib and the balloon boy sum up America?
Consider NPR. As a brand, it claims to be standing athwart capitalism because it’s “public.” What that means exactly is a bit unclear, since it still allows corporations to fund its programming in exchange for audio endorsements none dare call commercials and relies on the kindness of listeners to keep it afloat — listeners who, one way or another, make their money from you-know-what.
Indeed, speaking of the decade in capitalism, National Public Radio failed to mention that Joan Kroc, widow of Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, left more than $200 million to NPR in 2003. Mrs. Kroc’s generosity of spirit was her own, but the wampum is all capitalism’s, baby.
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