KCUR picks up this NPR story: Conservative Shift Has Some Kansans Yearning For The Past - The Obituary for Kansas is at the center of the story for those who might not remember the progressive roots of the State.
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ReplyDeleteI heard this story live, and I have to say that if NPR wants to continue to receive taxpayer dollars, it really needs to self-edit its more obvious lefty impulses - like this story. I am absolutely certain that a follow-up story regarding the radicalization of California from a center of conservative thought in to a quasi-socialist republic over the last twenty years will be aired next week, replete with a critical eye on the unlimited financing provided by left wing billionaires. NOT.
I also thought it was journalistically suspect for the interviewer to be, clearly, reading her questions and dubbing them over Governor Brownback's answers. If that interview was live, I am Elvis Presley.
NPR mutated into National Propaganda Radio on Sept 12, 2001.
ReplyDeleteThey choose Brad DeLong, dean of the Keynesian school, to talk against low taxes. They could have at least gotten Kelton or one of the other chartalism clowns from UMKC and made it even more laughable.
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to the RINO's and Democrat hacks like Sebelius. Kansas DOES have oil and it has an agriculture that will keep it soundly in the productively profitable column for the long term future. Kansas will indeed lead the way and Blue states like California will collapse into failed places like Detroit.
ReplyDeleteThe water will be gone soon. Then what?
ReplyDeleteGood one 9:20! Oh I suppose some jobs might come to JOCO but not the rest of the state. The future is in technology and all it's spin-offs. Kansas will not attract technological firms. Technology companies are started and staffed by younger and more progressive people. Does the direction Kansas is headed look progressive to you? It sure as hell doesn't to me. Younger people are more liberal and this state is already into crazy tea-bagger territory. Not to mention, Brownback is going to gut our education system. Do you think technology companies want to locate to a place that still argues about evolution and has the education system of Mississippi? Not bloody likely. This state will continue to lose its younger population to urban areas where the jobs are. And by urban areas, I don't mean Wichita.
ReplyDeleteKansas isn't "productively profitable" you fucking moron. It's a welfare state. The agriculture in subsidized and unnatural, it relies on unsustainable irrigation and fertilization, and the population is poor old and almost universally on some for of government assistance.
ReplyDeleteThe ONLY placde in KS that is growing or healthy is a fucking suburb of a city in Missouri, and without that city, the entire state of Kansas would fold.
No where bites the hand that feeds it like a red state. Ignorant right wing motherfuckers.