The Invisible Hand That Feeds

Hahahahah!


Conservative authors, some of whom have been on the bestsellers lists in recent years (including a Swift Boat writer-guy!), have gathered together to sue the parent company of the imprint that published them, Regnery publishing. They claim they are not being paid enough in royalties.

Apparently this company that has a habit of publishing books critical of things like government regulation of business now has its authors complaining about being ripped off by profit-margin-above-all-else, big-business tactics.

Best quote- Richard Miniter, author of Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror, in the New York Times today: "Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?" Of course, "Marxist" is neo-con speak for "further to the left than me."

Open Letter to Miniter: Maybe, sir, because "Marxist" cartoons are accurate in their depiction of businesses: they are simply profit-making machines with little to no regard for worker or human rights or privileges, unless they are forced into considering these factors by strict laws. Ooh, shudder, sir, for I am telling you that a law pertaining to business tactics- one of your mortal enemies- could have prevented this situation from happening to you. Would you support that law now that you are furious at the big company that ripped you- a worker, of sorts- off? Maybe you guys should have formed a union, like those writers who are on strike did. That would have really helped you out.

This is a bit like if women critical of giving the HPV vaccination shot to female children in school, by coincidence, contracted cervical cancer themselves, and then, in their hospital beds, argued that someone should have given them a shot to prevent the cancer. It would have had to have been given before they had sex, maybe in, say, middle school? Huh.

Watch the logical loops spin in on themselves. Irony is everywhere, and it's hilarious.