Austan Antic, Hey!
It was a funny segment, if you think young people talking foolishly about government is funny.
Calling Sanders “the Giveaway King,” O’Reilly asked Goolsbee his general impression of the gimme-gimme attitude. It was the softest of softball questions. “What do you think about that?”
Talk about open-ended. Any response given thus says a lot about the interviewee, seeing how broad he may answer.
“Well, look, I’ve told you I’ve never been a big fan of socialism,” spake President Obama’s famed advisor. “I’m an economics professor.” Chuckling, he went on. “I’ve got the sense you don’t want these people getting free air to breathe. You’d like them to mail in their checks to make sure they work for it.”
Goolsbee could have started off as sensibly as he ended: “I’m against free stuff. Socialism doesn’t work. . . .”
He didn’t. He immediately reduced O’Reilly’s position to that of a straw man, using the reductio ad absurdum.
Why? For levity’s sake? Well, both O’Reilly and Goolsbee were jovial. . . .
But his nasty quip fulfilled a purpose, making sure that ideologues on the left continued to have license to think the worst about their opponents.
Thus Austan Goolsbee, despite his protests, carried water for crazed socialism.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacobs is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacobs is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service.
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