Free-Market Mole At Weekend GMA?
Has a free-market mole infiltrated the weekend edition of Good Morning America? While the liberal cats of the weekday version are away, are market-oriented mice being allowed to play? I ask because for two weeks running, the weekend edition of the ABC show has given a fair shake to those opposing the porkulus. Last Saturday, as I reported here, Dan Mitchell of the libertarian Cato institute was given surprisingly respectful treatment as he made the case that big government spending doesn’t work.
Today, it was George Will’s turn. In the course of a segment on the stimulus bill, the conservative columnist twice appeared, blasting the substance of the bill: “the House threw everything but the kitchen sink in and then looked around and threw the kitchen sink in also” and the process by which Pres. Obama is pushing it through—”an unusually grotesque eruption of business as usual.”
I kept waiting for Paul Krugman or a reasonable facsimile thereof to appear, but he never did.
I wouldn’t expect this kind of segment to make it by GMA’s weekday crew, but at least for the time being, the weekend edition has become easy on the ears for supporters of free markets.
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“I wouldn’t expect this kind of segment to make it by GMA’s weekday crew, but at least for the time being, the weekend edition has become easy on the ears for supporters of free markets.”
Maybe that’s because “supporters of free markets” only watch it on the weekend. You know when they’re not busy support the free market by going to work.
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