The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim. (Reply #24)

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Mon Apr 1, 2013, 06:44 PM

24. The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim.

They did claim that the growth could not be accounted for by boomers alone, but they did not get around to actually accounting for it, other than of course the innuendo that it was a bunch of shirkers taking advantage of hard workin murkins.

They did manage to observe that quite a few 50+ people in de-industrialized non-urban america were in fact unable to physically work in the service jobs that remain (e.g. retail, health care, truck driver). But could not quite grasp the obvious conclusion: that means they are disabled.

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
Trends with benefits, This American Life drinks the kool aide. [View all]	Warren Stupidity	Mar 2013	OP
I think they are getting called out on it.	Iris	Mar 2013	#1
Here - Media Matters and International Business Times	Iris	Mar 2013	#3
Let us know.	Dawson Leery	Mar 2013	#4
Look up!	Iris	Mar 2013	#5
NPR has come a long way from the Fire Sign Theater to this dreck .	olddots	Mar 2013	#2
Mostly it's being driven by people over 50 who can't get hired anywhere	Warpy	Mar 2013	#6
The stupid piece couldn't even substantiate that claim.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#24
I too was furious with that hack and her slanted piece of so called work.	Bluenorthwest	Mar 2013	#7
A woman I know lost her mother, for whom she was the caregiver	LiberalEsto	Mar 2013	#8
Not according to TAL.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#12
I only caught a few moments of it, and I was seeing red.	Geoff R. Casavant	Mar 2013	#9
The Bush administration's "gift" to NPR--a bunch of assholes hired by his appointees during his	MADem	Mar 2013	#10
I could be wrong but I don't think NPR has any government appointed directors.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#11
CPB does. And they have oversight over both PBS and NPR. Background....	MADem	Apr 2013	#23
I remember when this happened. The Capitol Steps had a song about it...	winter is coming	Apr 2013	#26
I used to love going to see those guys--I am a fan of that kind of cleverness!	MADem	Apr 2013	#27
not the first time tal has presented the neolib POV	HiPointDem	Apr 2013	#13
Yeah, people just love poverty, that's why all the well-off are so eager to give their money away.	bemildred	Apr 2013	#14
Well,	GiveMeFreedom	Apr 2013	#15
Me Too	otohara	Apr 2013	#16
The American Life gets a lot right generally, but when they get something wrong...	Javaman	Apr 2013	#17
They have a good track record to owning up to their mistakes, though	Orrex	Apr 2013	#18
Me too.	Javaman	Apr 2013	#19
Yeah...	Orrex	Apr 2013	#20
So far they are "standing by the story" despite having already made corrections.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#21
Yeah, I saw that after I posted	Orrex	Apr 2013	#22
Oh and the "comment on" for this crap is exquisite.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#25
Wow truly sickening exchanges @ the NPR blog-	lunasun	Apr 2013	#29
Sadly those comments don't surprise me america was one of the earliest supporters of eugenics	Arcanetrance	Apr 2013	#31
did u listen to the very end? she realizes that no one in that town	Liberal_in_LA	Apr 2013	#28
Yeah that was the part where she almost fill into a pit of truth.	Warren Stupidity	Apr 2013	#30

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