Morning Coffee: Moore’s outrage, Dodd’s warning, Stamberg’s relish
Michael Moore tells The Takeaway’s John and Adaora that the Congressional response to the automakers this week is a double standard.
When the bankers showed up, it was… ‘WELCOME!’… these people don’t make anything, they just make money off of money. But the automakers actually produce something, and as soon as they arrive it’s ‘this doesn’t sound like a good idea.’
Moore says his thesis over 20 years has been that US automakers were on the way to collapse. But now that it has arrived:
We the people, and our representatives in Congress, have almost a moral responsibility to protect the infrastructure that these companies represent.
But Moore isn’t for a bailout, per se; he seems to advocate government help tied to new environmental initiatives, removal of management, and essentially a mobilization of the automaker’s assets to build mass transit, etc., kind of how FDR put the automakers in the business of building the country’s war machine. Listen
Senate Banking Committee Chairmen Christopher Dodd used his Morning Edition interview with Steve Inskeep to express his displeasure with banks over their use of the bailout money – in his words, hoarding it, using it for dividends.
Inskeep: Well, should banks hear a warning that if there is not some improvement in the next few weeks, you might be, say, at the very beginning of the next Congress, writing in revisions to that law?
Dodd: Absolutely, Steve, and thank you for the question.
Susan Stamberg’s recitation of Momma Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish recipe has been a public radio Thanksgiving fixture since John McCain was… ok, that joke is old, too. Over the years, producers have tried a few different presentation styles for what is essentially the same recipe, repeated again and again. Some haven’t worked, but without giving anything away if you haven’t heard it yet, we can say that this year’s dress looked nice and fit well. Listen (the recipe is there, too)
While we’re at it, here’s a collection of “shocking pink” down through the years. The one we truly miss is the 1993 vintage, when Susan welcomed Craig Claiborne, the author of the recipe, to the show so he would end his lawsuit over the “Momma Stamberg’s” name. (part of that sentence is malarkey)
