Well, you gotta realize Milton Friedman was well into his 60s by the time he started getting on camera. Ron Paul was only 53 the year he ran on the Libertarian ticket. I think age has a lot to do with it. Not to mention, the atmosphere of the show certainly didn’t help.
For anyone interested, you can view the full episode here, although that one is literally a video of a tv screen (the audio makes it annoyingly obvious.) So you might start with this vhs rip and then go back to the other one for the rest.
Yeah I’m not so sure that was the goal. I’m not so sure you go on The Morton Downey Jr. Show to convince anyone of anything. Either they had no idea what they were getting into, or it was just a springboard for publicity. I lean toward the latter.
Yeah I wasn’t aware of that usage till I came across that wikipedia page. Sorry about that.
Obviously, in the U.S. that’s actually one restriction we don’t have, believe it or not. So the terms get used interchangeably.
That is insane. If someone just told me out of the blue that that was how it worked, in a modern country like the UK, I wouldn’t believe it. Utter madness.
Oh I don’t doubt it. As long as something is around long enough to become ingrained in the culture, people come to not only accept it but actually love it, if for no other reason than it’s simply familiar. People love tradition. Even if it sucks.