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October 13, 2004
Outsourcing, Chris Matthews, and the American Left
Last week Chris Matthews and Larry Kudlow where debating outsourcing on MSNBC. During their exchange Matthews made the following statement recounting how he recently had to call tech support for his AOL account:
Lawrence, the hardest argument in the world is to make--the other day, yesterday, I went to get my AOL fixed. I had a problem with it. It turned out to be my problem. I had something wrong. When I talked to the person, they had--there's nothing wrong with this if they‘re living here. But it was somebody with an Indian accent apparently around the world, the other side of the world, helping me figure out my AOL problem.
Heaven forbid we be able to associate and work with people living in India.
Almost on cue the next day was an op-ed by George Gilder entitled "America's New Jingoes". Gilder takes shots at everyone from Paul Krugman to Matthews' counterpart Lou Dobbs. Matthews himself is spared but he but he might as well been a target of the op-ed:
The American left once displayed a real concern for poor people, but today they exhibit merely a morbid envy of the rich. Once they supported American engagement in the world. Today, they retreat to a timorous parochialism. Now it is President Bush who shows compassion for the world's poor and confidence rather than timidity before the forces of global capitalism.
Posted by Peter Mork at October 13, 2004 4:57 PM
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