Wednesday, August 19, 2009

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!

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