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Did anyone catch PJ O'Rourke's ridiculous comments on marketplace yesterday? Basically he blamed those in poverty (you know, most of the world's population) for being failures in life.
RYSSDAL: What would he have to say after those 900 pages, if he [Adam Smith] just showed up in downtown New York City today?
O'ROURKE: Well, I think he'd be happy at the extent to which prosperity has spread to ordinary people...
...it was Smith's objective to see that people got better off, and I think he'd be happy to see that most of us got better off. He would not be surprised to see that not everybody got better off, because he was a good student of human nature and he knew that not everyone would succeed.
Of course this went unchallenged by Kai Ryssdal...
Well-behaved NPR hosts NEVER challenge their right-wing guests viewpoints directly. It seems to be part of their whole above-it-all, laid-back, go-along-to-get-along persona.
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