Thursday, February 15, 2007

Radicals Ruin Your Valentine's Day?   [Tim Graham]

We had a chuckle in the office on Tuesday when Fox host Neil Cavuto hosted a man denouncing Valentine’s Day as a holiday for men to give, and women to receive. But there were no chuckles on Valentine’s Day with the radical lefties at Pacifica Radio. (Conservatives don’t chuckle either when they consider taxpayers fork over a million bucks to these radicals every year through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.) Their Valentine’s Day segment was a very un-romantic expose. The website for their show “Democracy Now” set the gloomy stage:  

Today is Valentine's Day. Chocolate, flowers, diamonds. How can gifts that bring so much happiness have come from so much pain? ? Those lovely flowers you received - they were probably genetically engineered and grown in Colombia on a giant pesticide-soaked factory farm run by U.S.-owned Dole Foods. How about the chocolate? Well, over 40 percent of the world’s cocoa comes from the Ivory Coast, in West Africa, where the child labor and child slavery is widespread. And diamonds? They are a girl’s best friend. And they have been used to finance some of the most brutal warfare of the last two decades. Valentine’s Day. What’s not to like? Our guests today will give you all the unlovely details.

02/15 12:52 PMShare