Comments on: HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN MEGAN McARDLE PIECE http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/ OPIATE OF THE ASSES Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lenny Gray http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-60533 Lenny Gray Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:30:58 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-60533 After writing a rant TO her, and unable to find how to send it to her, I came across this thread, so I'll just post it here: ______________________ Megan McArdle Business & Economics Editor, The Atlantic When you said, and clips are included in the video 'Overdose - the Next Financial Crisis': "The [auto] executives came out and they said 'if you don't do this, we are going to see a jobs holocaust'. They issued extremely high estimates of how many jobs would be lost, that included every single company that supplies them with anything." But you went on to say: "Congress wanted to believe them. Congress wanted an excuse to bail out the auto workers, and the executives gave them just enough political cover to say 'well, I'm not really doing this because I want auto-worker votes, and I'm going to give them a huge amount of money, I'm really doing this for the American economy'" I'll just ask, ARE YOU STUPID, OR JUST A LYING SHILL FOR THE RICH? Did you think YOUR slant, that it was about the auto WORKERS, at all, was honest? Even the attribution of what Congress wanted to believe, was YOUR slant. It didn't at all occur to you that the auto WORKERS wouldn't have been GIVEN anything in any case -- they'd still be trading their man-hours for dollars, just as before? You couldn't see that it was shareholders of those auto companies who were being GIVEN something? That if the companies were allowed to fold, that the stock values would go to zero? SO, WERE YOU JUST STUPID, OR JUST LYING? Is this coherent enough for you? After writing a rant TO her, and unable to find how to send it to her, I came across this thread, so I'll just post it here:
______________________

Megan McArdle
Business & Economics Editor, The Atlantic

When you said, and clips are included in the video 'Overdose – the Next Financial Crisis': "The [auto] executives came out and they said 'if you don't do this, we are going to see a jobs holocaust'. They issued extremely high estimates of how many jobs would be lost, that included every single company that supplies them with anything."

But you went on to say: "Congress wanted to believe them. Congress wanted an excuse to bail out the auto workers, and the executives gave them just enough political cover to say 'well, I'm not really doing this because I want auto-worker votes, and I'm going to give them a huge amount of money, I'm really doing this for the American economy'"

I'll just ask, ARE YOU STUPID, OR JUST A LYING SHILL FOR THE RICH?

Did you think YOUR slant, that it was about the auto WORKERS, at all, was honest? Even the attribution of what Congress wanted to believe, was YOUR slant. It didn't at all occur to you that the auto WORKERS wouldn't have been GIVEN anything in any case — they'd still be trading their man-hours for dollars, just as before? You couldn't see that it was shareholders of those auto companies who were being GIVEN something? That if the companies were allowed to fold, that the stock values would go to zero?

SO, WERE YOU JUST STUPID, OR JUST LYING?

Is this coherent enough for you?

]]> By: LildVioclople http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-57036 LildVioclople Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:08:07 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-57036 Спасибо, очень интересная заметка. Спасибо, очень интересная заметка.

]]> By: Vinny http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-50508 Vinny Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:41:42 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-50508 It's January 22nd 2011. This article was so memorable to me that when I was listening to Marketplace on WNYC.ORG, last night, and heard Megan McArdle talk about how Chinese companies are more efficient than American companies, and we should be thankful to them for providing really cheap goods, I had to come back and re-read it. It's January 22nd 2011. This article was so memorable to me that when I was listening to Marketplace on WNYC.ORG, last night, and heard Megan McArdle talk about how Chinese companies are more efficient than American companies, and we should be thankful to them for providing really cheap goods, I had to come back and re-read it.

]]> By: Wilfred Dentel http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-35748 Wilfred Dentel Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:48:17 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-35748 America America

]]> By: Big D http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-30279 Big D Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:25:34 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-30279 Excellent. I think there is actually enough here to automate production of these things. Let me put some chatterbot code to work... :-) Now, does anyone have the stomach for automating the master of hypocradox, Krauthammer? Excellent. I think there is actually enough here to automate production of these things. Let me put some chatterbot code to work… :-)

Now, does anyone have the stomach for automating the master of hypocradox, Krauthammer?

]]> By: KWillow http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-30197 KWillow Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:44:20 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-30197 Dont forget her numerous, dozens, nay hundreds of Straw-friends and Foes. Easy for her to knock down, but a serious fire hazard if she uses too many in her 'column'. Dont forget her numerous, dozens, nay hundreds of Straw-friends and Foes. Easy for her to knock down, but a serious fire hazard if she uses too many in her 'column'.

]]> By: Tierra Mccoy http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-21723 Tierra Mccoy Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:59:16 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-21723 Just keep doing good stuff. Just keep doing good stuff.

]]> By: I Dare the MSM to Change! « Left Flank http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-19120 I Dare the MSM to Change! « Left Flank Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:57:43 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-19120 [...] This is as damning as the Megan McArdle vivisection! [...] [...] This is as damning as the Megan McArdle vivisection! [...]

]]> By: beau http://www.ginandtacos.com/2009/10/21/how-to-write-your-own-megan-mcardle-piece/comment-page-1/#comment-18755 beau Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:08:30 +0000 http://www.ginandtacos.com/?p=2651#comment-18755 great post, ed. also, best comments evah. great post, ed. also, best comments evah.

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