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As Dave Weigel Was To Conservatives

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So is Steve Pearlstein to businessmen.

I heard that interview in the car, and was just shaking my head. How is it that someone this clueless about business and businessmen covers them as his beat? Just another reason that the legacy media is going down the tubes. As one commenter noted, that interview could have come right from Atlas Shrugged.

Via Instapundit, and yes, Amity Shlaes’ history of the Depression makes a hell of a lot more sense to me than any others I’ve read of it.

9 thoughts on “As Dave Weigel Was To Conservatives”

  3. ‘The Forgotten Man’ and ‘Liberal Fascism’ are two books everyone learning about the differences between conservatives and progressives should read.

  4. Here’s a post of a different material from “clawback”:

    I’m afraid your LeBron analogy falls flat. Why is it unreasonable to expect business executives, all of whom are paid like sports superstars, to understand and adapt to the regulatory environment in which they operate? No, they can’t all be Steve Jobs, but they certainly should be expected to do the basic work of adapting to their business environment.

    All the clueless assumptions and biases are laid out.

  6. No, they can’t all be Steve Jobs, but they certainly should be expected to do the basic work of adapting to their business environment.

    Yeah, just like Captain Quint failed to adapt to the shark.

  8. Of all the condescending BS I ever heard about business, THAT was IT, the TOP, PEAK of idiocy and stupidity.

    I’m not apple, IBM or WaPo, but I do run a small P/T business. This guy is clueless. His own “talking points” betray his leftist leanings.

    That he “thinks” the bankers / business people set their agenda from the Country Club has no “gravitas”, to borrow a word from the DNC talking points from years back.

    They were “writing their own regulatory rules”? On what planet?

    Not a lot of demand? So when the economy goes south we eat less, use less electricity at home, need fewer “widgets” to keep the ??? from breaking down? Yeah there’s less ability to BUY, but the NEED / DEMAND is still there. (I know many will disagree with that, but I’m sticking)

    Lack of imagination and guts? Based on what? Pearlstein’s own experience meeting payroll, hiring / firing, buying / selling, etc? I’m betting he’d scream, via print, at gutsy CEO’s who bet the farm and then lose. It takes guts to employ a hand full of people, much less hundreds or thousands, regardless of the industry.

    I quit listening at his “country club” BS.

    Pearlstein forgets that MOST people work in and for small businesses that are run by people too busy to go to a country club, to get this weeks talking points memo

    What a blowhard and dumb ass.

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