Last week was pledge time for both National Public Radio affiliates and for the Pacifica network. Local Houston station KUHF raised over $540,000 by appealing to our sense of nobless oblige, and through incentives like an Engines of Our Ingenuity CD-ROM, as well as the usual assortment of books, mugs and t-shirts.
Despite NPR's familiar liberal bent, I made my contribution. Glad to have KUHF's very extensive classical music programming and NPR has value if one is watchful.
However, I was struck by the difference between the garden-variety liberal perspective and the wacko Left yesterday. During Pacifica affiliate KPFT's Friday fund-raising, the featured incentives were a War Profiteers Card Deck and George W. Bush voodoo dolls. This pitch followed their self-description as "the voice of peace and justice."
All in all, Conventional Wisdom is easier to tolerate than true Leftist babble.
Posted by Alan at October 18, 2003 09:42 AM