Money For Nothing

How do you get Sam's Club conservatives to support policies that work against their own financial interests and further enrich wealthy Country Club conservatives?

First scare them... Then pick their pockets.


Video: MSNBC

Numbers justify fear.

50,000 abducted children, for example, or 50,000 predators prowling for kids online. That last figure was once touted by the NBC show "Dateline." But where did it come from?

As this piece from 2006 points out, 50,000 is something of a Goldilocks number in the media – not too big and not too small, but, for scaring the public, just right.

Audio: WNYC's On The Media rebroadcast 7/31/10, Host: Brooke Gladstone.

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies (1989)