Whole Foods and NPR--together again, for the first time anywhere!
I hope all of you have heard that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey has written a Wall Street Journal op-ed opposing health care reform. I suspect at least some of you have joined in on the Whole Foods boycott, as I have. But to the clowns at NPR, the boycott must be the actions of a fringe group of leftist nutballs, apparently, because in their online article on the boycott and furor, they achieve the modern equivalent of "balanced reporting". They quote one of the "some" boycotting Whole Foods, who cogently and coherently states that: "he won't be shopping at the store 'as long as this person is in charge at Whole Foods and he maintains his opposition to appropriate health care payment. If this is their corporate philosophy, I cannot support that . . ." Then the writer quotes an opponent: "I wish the whole country would oppose it...And I think that you find now, at least what we hear, maybe not on NPR or Fox News, you hear that the majority of people are against it, but you have Obama sitting there trying to achieve something that people don't want."
Neatly tied up in a bow, isn't it? One for, one against. Except, of course, the first is clearly and simply one man's rationale for his actions, while the other is a diatribe filled with errors. Just like they do at all the right wing rags, NPR has provided "balance" without doing anything to provide the actual facts involved in the right wingers' claims, which are all inaccurate.
Well done once again, NPR!
Neatly tied up in a bow, isn't it? One for, one against. Except, of course, the first is clearly and simply one man's rationale for his actions, while the other is a diatribe filled with errors. Just like they do at all the right wing rags, NPR has provided "balance" without doing anything to provide the actual facts involved in the right wingers' claims, which are all inaccurate.
Well done once again, NPR!
Labels: John Mackey, NPR, Whole Foods, Whole Foods boycott
posted by bryduck at 4:32 PM
2 Comments:
Back in 2008, this Whole Foods, CEO John Mackey (how old is this kid?), was caught posting negative comments (trash talk) about a competitor on Yahoo Finance message boards in an effort to push down the stock price. So now I am suppose to take this loser seriously? Please, snore, snore.
It’s funny we hear Republicans say that they do not want “faceless bureaucrats” making medical decisions but they have no problem with “private sector” “faceless bureaucrats” daily declining medical coverage and financially ruining good hard working people (honestly where can they go with a pre-condition). And who says that the “private sector” is always right, do we forget failures like Long-Term Capital, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Enron, Tyco, AIG and Lehman Brothers. Of course the federal government will destroy heathcare by getting involved, Oh but wait, Medicare and Medicaid and our military men and women and the Senate and Congress get the best heathcare in the world, and oh, that’s right, its run by our federal government. I can understand why some may think that the federal government will fail, if you look at the past eight years as a current history, with failures like the financial meltdown and Katrina but the facts is they can and if we support them they will succeed.
How does shouting down to stop the conversation of the healthcare debate at town hall meetings, endears them to anyone. Especially when the organizations that are telling them where to go and what to do and say are Republicans political operatives, not real grassroots. How does shouting someone down or chasing them out like a “lynch mob” advanced the debate, it does not. So I think the American people will see through all of this and know, like the teabagger, the birthers, these lynch mobs types AKA “screamers” are just the same, people who have to resort to these tactics because they have no leadership to articulate what they real want. It’s easy to pickup a bus load of people who hate, and that’s all I been seeing, they hate and can’t debate. Too bad.
Hammer, meet nail, Paul. Unfortunately, plenty of people read the Wall Street Journal and actually think that it is non-partisan, or even "objective", and so when someone posts a piece in it, normally sane people might be persuaded to give it some credence. We gotta fight the good fight no matter when or what, which in these cases means pointing out the facts, simply and forcefully, even if we get ignored by the majority of idiots. Somebody out there might get it that ordinarily wouldn't. I hope.
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