On Point with Tom Ashbrook is the left's answer to Sean Hannity's radio show. The recent episode with Charles Murray, author of Coming Apart, was great. Find the podcast, because it's worth listening to (1) as an illustration of Ashbrook as Liberal Hannity, and (2) because Charles Murray is fascinating.
Here's the pattern. Murray states demographic and socio-economic facts. Ashbrook and his guest expert sidekick deny the facts, proclaiming the facts are unfair. Here's my favorite example.
Murray: The super-rich class perpetuates itself partly because smart parents, statistically, have higher-IQ kids. I'm not saying this is genetic or environmental. Whatever the cause, it doesn't matter. It's just a fact.
Ashbrook: But Charles! How can you say that! That's un-American genetic determinism!
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