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NPR or Radio Moscow?
- “One choice, at this transformational moment, is to say, ‘We are satisfied with what we are doing. We–in [public] radio–are providing 11 percent of America with an extraordinary service.’ “–public radio executive Sue Schardt, Current.org, March 7
- “11% Say Communism Better Than U.S. System of Politics and Economics”–headline, RasmussenReports.com, March 15
Chutzpah
Red China is calling on New Zealand “to give special compensation to Chinese families who lost children in last month’s Christchurch earthquake,” the New Zealand herald reports:
[The Chinese Embassy’s Cheng] Lei said there was a very notable difference between Chinese families and other foreign families, which needed to be taken into consideration when providing compensation to families who lost their only child.
“You can expect how lonely, how desperate they are . . . not only from losing loved ones, but losing almost entirely the major source of economic assistance after retirement,” he told Radio New Zealand.
It reminds us of that old joke about the definition of chutzpah: when a communist country imposes a one-child policy, then pleads for mercy because its citizens are childless.
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