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May 6, 2005
NPR Shows Its Class
Posted by Dave Blount at May 6, 2005 7:21 AM
I've heard it argued (although not in these exact words) that the reason people like myself who have no use for NPR should be forced to pay for it anyway is because the common man just doesn't have enough class to know what's good for him.
If I were cynical, I would suspect that liberal elitists couldn't care less about what's good for me; they just want what's good for them — other people's money to finance projects that otherwise could not sustain themselves economically. But maybe they're assuming that if they force me to pay for it, I'll feel compelled to listen to it. Then, sooner or later, the wisdom of their limp-wristed Leninism will penetrate my thick skull, and I will shed my flag-waving capitalist ways for a life of higher consciousness.
But it won't happen during "Car Talk," one of the few NPR programs accessible to the sort of people who don't see the "nuance" in the events of 9/11. The hosts of the show, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, were in Washington Tuesday to schmooze with the bureaucrats responsible for taking money out of my paychecks and putting it into theirs.
"George Bush is a [unprintable vulgarity]," announced Tom Magliozzi, about three minutes into the interview, according to the Washington Post.
Class. It's what clods like me may never be able to appreciate. But that needn't prevent me from paying for it.
(Okay, I'll admit that if they played classical music on the local NPR station, I would listen to it. But they don't. It's just relentlessly leftist jabbering, all day long. That's all right, though; there's a commercial classical station.)
