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I will be appearing on the PBS Newshour’s report from the North American International Auto Show tomorrow evening (check local listings for times). The interview took place late last Monday, after some 11 hours of press conference goodness, so the end results will be a surprise even to me! I do seem to recall questions about the revival of the American auto industry and the Chevy’ Volt’s price-volume dilemma… but we’ll all have to tune in to find out exactly what I said.
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careful Edward, they’ll make you a star, appeal to your ego, and strip you of your independent mind.
who is John Galt?
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I saw a bumper-sticker on a beat-up, 10+ year old Buick, driven by a very disheveled middle-aged woman who nearly merged into my car without looking on my commute home last night. The bumper-sticker read ‘Going Galt.’
The context of that encounter accurately summarizes my preconcieved notions of objectivism.
Is that Ray Suarez’s bald spot there? At least he’s holding his own, more than I.
Anyway, Newshour is my favorite program, which shows what a pretentious old fuddy dud I am at 43. I live for Shields and Brooks on Fridays. Oh yeah, party time—I’m like Michael Douglas’s character watching Daniel Schorr, in “The Game.” Too bad you didn’t get Paul Solman for the interview. That madman can totally get down.
Heck, I’m 29 and I love The News Hour. I even follow their Twitter feed. It’s about the only show I watch. Mainstream news is awful.
Actually, that is Solman! He’s just hunched over enough to appear Suarez-esque from behind.
And yes, this is the first time I’ve ever appeared on a show that I actually watch… but then, I don’t have cable, so that narrows it down a bit.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/module.html?mod=0&pkg=1062009&seg=5
Good for you for not having cable. I wish more people would drop their service. Maybe then the cable companies would improve their customer service and reduce rates.
Not bad. Not likely as froth-inducing as Mr. Farago’s appearance on Al-Jazeera, but a good start.
If you can appear on both Fox and PBS and be credible in both, it speaks well of you.
If you can appear on both Fox and PBS and be credible in both, it speaks well of you.
Isn’t that a tacit admission that PBS tilts left?
Reality has a liberal bias. :)
Reality and common decency are left.
Let’s stay in the real world, not fantasy land, people.
NIEDERBEAST
Carguy, you probably like the gov macked radio like NPR to go with your gov TV too?
Maybe TTAC was on the TARP list too?
Watch those monetary sources in broadcasting.
TTAC is owned by Canadians. No TARP for them.
TARP was a product of the Republicans – Cheney/Bush Administration.
@forraymond
For shame – truth has no place among the owners of jerking knees. Observe their axioms:
1) Government involvement in the military is honorable defense of the country’s interests, and the government can be trusted completely with the power of nuclear warheads, vast amounts of technology and materiel, and hundreds of thousands of troops.
2) Government involvement in anything else whatsoever is equivalent to Armageddon and tantamount to treachery, and the government cannot be trusted at all with dangerous things like education, infrastructure, and, particularly, Medicare.
3) Only right-wing governments ever support war or the military. Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson were republicans. Reports of, say, the Obama administration increasing support for military action, are a product of the – what’s the term? – lamestream media’s clear left-wing bias.
4) Only left-wing governments ever support government intervention in the economy. A laissez-faire attitude toward a deep financial crisis worked fine in 1929, and it certainly couldn’t have been George W. Bush’s administration that bail LA LA LA WHAT’S THAT, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!
And, finally, and most importantly,
5) Any given issue must be seen through the lens of extreme partisanship. There are no issues that are non-partisan, and any position taken by The Other Side must immediately be opposed, regardless of merit. This policy, unfortunately, is the same as the extreme left-wing’s, meaning that the left and the right must by definition agree on something, and exoline nagibble nif yilder dooksus stemgobbler oh so very confusing.
And finally, any mention of any subject which might possibly be linked to politics (say, someone appearing on PBS, or any mention of GM at any time anywhere) must immediately be used as an excuse to engage in paranoid, partisan, and possibly incoherent rambling, whose only discernible point is vague, unfocused anger at anything the government ever does – with the presumed goal of getting your own guys in so they can do it, instead of the other guys’ guys.
Does that help?
And I can turn all of these on their heads, while adding a few more entertaining ones to boot:
1) According to several on the left, the federal government regularly lies to people, tramples the interests of the others and only serves the interests of the powerful. It was built on the foundation of slave labor in the 1700s, and pretty much went downhill from there. But it’s okay to allow the government to run health care under a single-payer system, because…well, we can trust it with this one, because good intentions are enough. As we all know, lefties never abuse government power.
2) Pointing out the fact that Medicare is going broke, or that there are serious problems with the public education monopoly automatically makes one suspect. Further pointing out that increased expenditures on things like education do not bring about a corresponding increase in results proves that…you don’t care about children, grandma, or the victim du jour.
3) The support of war is found only among trigger-happy right-wingers, and as they reflexively support a military response to every situation. These facts – that many Democrats supported both the Iraq War and the Gulf War, and that Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt actively supported America’s entry into World War I when it didn’t really involve us, and that progressive Teddy Roosevelt almost singlehandedly brought about American involvement in the Spanish-American War – are conveniently ignored.
4) The actions of the Hoover Administration in the wake of the 1929 crash – jawboning companies to maintain wages, raising taxes, passing the draconian Hawley Smoot tariffs to “protect” American industry, using the Federal Reserve to throttle the money supply out of fears of inflation (when the problem was deflation) – somehow constitute a laissez-faire approach to what should have been a short and sharp recession (and a needed correction to the stock market excesses of 1928-29). The fact that these interventions made the situation WORSE are conveniently ignored, as is the example of the 1920-21 recession, which quickly turned around when the government cut taxes and let the situation work itself out.
5) Here’s another one – when Republicans give aid to various industries, it’s called corporate welfare, and proof that they favor special interests over everyone else. When liberals support bankrupt companies that are failing because their products were clearly inferior to the competition, and give a sweetheart deal to a union that helped bring about those companies’ bankruptcy, but was a big political donor to Democrats, we call the first “saving a critical industry” and the second…we just ignore it and denounce anyone who notices as “partisan” or “someone who doesn’t care about American industry.”
6) Oh, and here’s another one – when Enron fails, and it turns out that George Bush received money from the company in the form of campaign contributions, and knew the CEO, its failure is his fault, even though he wasn’t running the company, and he correctly didn’t use government influence to prevent the failure. When it turns out the Bernie Madoff was giving heavily to Democrats while fleecing a bunch of victims of their life savings, we don’t hear a peep from Democrats or liberals about that key fact.
7) And one for the road – when George Bush opens a detention center for terrorists in Cuba, supports and signs into law changes to allow increased domestic surveillance, it’s proof that Bush in particular and Republicans in general don’t care about the United States Constitution. When the current president who campaigned on changing those policies leaves them intact, while adding a few twists of his own (making it easier for the federal government to assassinate people abroad), the people who were foaming at the mouth over Bush’s policies seem to have been struck with amnesia, or at least laryngitis.
Does THAT help?
Would you believe that there is a group that says NewsHour skews too right?
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4177
Personally, I think NewsHour is one of the best sources for real news. I can’t wait for tomorrow. Solman can be a hoot.
To the right, but not right of center. Interesting that half of PBS’s guests were gov employees. Interesting study.
Back to cars and PBS.
Anyone watching this time last year when it came to give names of endorsements the grimising when they had to announce Toyota as an under writer? I bet that parking lot as half full of Corolla & Pirus econo boxes. I’d look at their web page for funding and see a big blank guye spot at the bottom. Toyota and our government TV again?
http://www.pbs.org/producers/funding.html
So, let me get this straight – you oppose PBS, because it’s funded by the government, and you’re opposed to the government because it bailed out GM.
And you oppose PBS, because it’s funded by Toyota, and Toyota is competing with American car companies like GM… No, that can’t be, because you were opposed to the bailout of GM, which by definition hurt Toyota…
Or is it that the government was attacking Toyota during pedalgate in order to prop up American automakers, and so government employees must therefore… be… buying Toyotas?
Gosh darnit, I just can’t keep it all straight in my head!
Or was it that I’m opposed to recent ex-Toyota employees working for NHTSA?
I thought the revolving door was rotating in the opposite direction.
IIRC two ex-nhtsa employees went to tmc usa.
Robert, your right. Thanks for the correction. :)