Fools for Communism

Here's an older article over at Reason.com by Glenn Garvin on just how terribly pundits and journalists on the left understood communism. While I'm certainly not a fan of the "chattering class", as he puts it, it is still quite stunning when laid out in front of you how different their reality is from ours.

On a semi-related note, I recently had the ... honor of hearing a short speech by Dan Rather. While straining my ability to keep respectfully quiet in a public forum in front of an invited guest, he claimed that - and make sure you're sitting for this - that Journalism^tm and perhaps more specifically, Newspaper Journalism^tm, was in a crisis. What was to blame for this tragic turn of events? New technology and outdated business models? A loss of credibility from say, overzealous anchors, reporters, or producers pushing stories that they maybe didn't quite fact check enough? Nay, dear reader, it turns out to be the Corporations that have turned this once great and storied profession into a petty, for-profit, entertainment circus. And of course, like any good Journalist always does, Dan Rather had a solution: the government should bail out or subsidize the newspapers.

And there you have it.