| | Nice delivery. I watched all three parts. John Stossel updated a nice talking point made, for instance, by Newt Gingrich 15 years ago, about trust within capitalism. Gingrich's point had to do with a telephone and an airline, Stossel said that you can go to a foreign country, give your credit card to someone who doesn't speak English and he'll rent you a car for a week and when you get home the credit card statement is correct to the penny... but government cannot even count votes reliably.
(Back in the early 90s, at a GOP dinner, Dr. Gingrich said, "You call an 800 number, talk to someone you never met, give them your credit card number and the next morning you show up at the airport and actually expect a ticket to be waiting.")
I tried to watch John Stossel on The View, but he could not hold his own against four women talking at the same time. (To be fair, that mode of women talking at the same time has value in information transfer. In the case of two distant sources -- interstellar civilizations, for instance -- rather than waiting to receive before sending, both parties should just send and receive all the time, which is what a klatch of women do. Men talk serially, when they talk at all: Yup; Nope; Huh.)
Oh.... one fine point: 19 Emmies in 15 years, and, yes, none since he became a libertarian. In fact, he said, that some people think that he is a conservative, but he is not. He has no problem with homosexuality or the use of drugs and he was not in favor of the war in Iraq, so he is not a conservative. And he added that you can understand how isolated in the media real conservatives must be if he as a libertarian is as close they get to having their views aired.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 1/31, 7:11am)
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