{"id":583,"date":"2009-01-12T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T07:27:14","slug":"the-latest-wsj-inanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"The Latest WSJ Inanities"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am actually a fan of the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and have subscribed for the better part of 25 years, either in paper or electronic form, since the day my economics professor, J.J. Seneca<\/a>, handed out discount cards in class.\u00a0 Their reporting gets right down to the heart of an issue, without reiterating all sorts of basic information from yesterday’s news story.<\/p>\n

However, I have never been a fan of their editorial page, as it is too far to the right for the son of a teacher and life-long Democrat.\u00a0 Friday’s editorial<\/a> by Stephen Moore, recounting all the glamour of the Ayn Rand days (something Alan Greenspan did in his biography), is no exception.\u00a0 As the free market melts around us because it was not<\/strong> properly regulated, here we have a guy whining about both past and present economic stimulous packages on the table.\u00a0 The sheer lack of humility exhibited by the article is appalling.\u00a0 When Alan Greenspan can admit that he was wrong, the Wall Street Journal seems incapable of allowing for the possibility that Libertarian methods might not be the only path to salvation.<\/p>\n

This follows up a previous article in which the WSJ claimed that the New Deal had failed.\u00a0 Failure is in the eye of the beholder, and simply putting food on the table in the 30s was considered quite an accomplishment.\u00a0 Perhaps this is why FDR was elected four times.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t the worst of the WSJ’s latest crimes.\u00a0 Last year they added a feature where readers could comment on stories by simply clicking on a comment tab.\u00a0 More recently that tab has disappeared from political editorials.\u00a0 So go ahead and comment on a factual story, but please save your disdain for their snobbish opinions for somewhere else.\u00a0 How very Murdoch-esque.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I don’t know if a New New Deal is the right approach.\u00a0 But I guess I’m just a little more chastened than these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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