Salon calls Uber ‘the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism’

http://twitter.com/#!/scottlincicome/status/506221843162750976

Exactly what has Salon does this time, and we sure it’s perhaps not the Salon parody account? It’s published a piece entitled, “Why Uber must certanly be ended,” noting that app-driven trip sharing service “is showing is the embodiment of unrestrained hyper-capitalism.”

http://twitter.com/#!/WTrentNichols/status/506230109905629184

Almost. Just what copywriter Andrew Leonard is trying to express is it, whatever what this means is:

Whichever side you fall on, the storyline is interesting. There’s small doubt that Uber is the closest thing we’ve got right now to the living, breathing essence of unrestrained capitalism. This might be like watching Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller doing his thing. This is how robber barons play. All the way through, the business flaunts a street-fighter ethos.

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The true concern we should be asking ourselves is it: What happens when a business aided by the DNA of Uber ultimately ends up winning everything? What happens whenever neighborhood taxi organizations tend to be destroyed and Lyft is broken? When Uber has dominant marketplace place in almost every significant city on world? “UberEverywhere” isn’t bull crap. It’s a mantra, a call to hands, a holy ideology.

So, in a nutshell, Uber’s doing pretty much?

http://twitter.com/#!/SuryaGablin/status/506226383564328960 http://twitter.com/#!/Coondawg68/status/506218072815185920 http://twitter.com/#!/dallasjenkins/status/506154455189172225

Why Uber must be stopped. Leftists upset that capitalism & competition aren't quite #tcot #tlot

salon.com/2014/08/31/why…— Founding Ideals (@founding_ideals) August 31, 2014

http://twitter.com/#!/shaunross47/status/506213444560101377

For a far more step-by-step takedown of Salon’s piece, be sure to have a look at Steven Hayward’s post at Powerline, “Uber Meets Liberalism Uber Alles,” filled with historical framework:

The Reason Why Airplanes Must Be Ended

These greedy Wright brothers are threatening to upend city-to-city train solution along with their dangerous flying contraptions . . . Wait, what? You mean the railroads were the initial Robber Barons? Oh, never ever brain. . .

 

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/31/salon-calls-ride-sharing-service-uber-the-embodiment-of-unrestrained-hyper-capitalism/

Carney: ‘Senior staff’ knew about IRS investigation, didn’t tell Obama

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/336546864977571840

Unbelievable.

If jackass Jay Carney is to be believed, after learning about the IRS targeting conservatives, White House senior staffers decided not to inform the president. According to Carney, it was neither “necessary” or “appropriate” for Obama to know what was going on.

http://twitter.com/#!/jamiedupree/status/336546500412862464 http://twitter.com/#!/jamiedupree/status/336547608296296448 http://twitter.com/#!/jamiedupree/status/336548716213313536

“Not a need” to let the president know about corruption within the IRS? Really?

http://twitter.com/#!/chucktodd/status/336546436231602176 http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/336549601098211329

Why the need to keep the president in the dark, Jay?

http://twitter.com/#!/markknoller/status/336550133116325888

Is this customary practice in the White House?

http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielmalor/status/336547789129519104

So would we.

While Carney’s story about the president existing in a bubble, insulated from knowledge of developing scandals, is almost certainly B.S., the fact that he insists that Obama doesn’t need to know what’s going on under his nose is absolutely ludicrous — and very troubling.

http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/336547436636033024

No leader worth his salt would put up with that kind of crap:

http://twitter.com/#!/jpodhoretz/status/336550299013640192

Exactly.

http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336548734299148289 http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336549502032945152 http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336549930074251265

That would be the logical response, no?

http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336550705978552321

The White House Press Corps wasn’t buying Carney’s swill:

http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336555293959925761 http://twitter.com/#!/sunnyright/status/336559527933644801

Bam!

Carney may insist that he revels in the questioning, but if he genuinely believes that he’s doing himself or the Obama administration any favors with his whiny obfuscation, he’s woefully wrong.

http://twitter.com/#!/Aaron_RS/status/336554781965447168 http://twitter.com/#!/BenHowe/status/336567751936200705 http://twitter.com/#!/morgenr/status/336558231570747393

There is no positive way to spin this.

http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielmalor/status/336552456035127296

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/05/20/jay-carney-senior-staff-knew-about-irs-investigation-didnt-think-obama-had-to-know/