I wonder if there’s a shot for that?
But seriously, some of you know that on the 4th I was on “All Things Considered,” on NPR. You can listen to it if you’d like. The story is Zero-Sum Tactics That Built Trump Inc. Could Backfire With World Leaders.
The day after that aired I got a call from PBS — they wanted to know if I’d do PBS NewsHour. And that evening MSNBC called.
So I did it.
The whole thing flowed from a Facebook post that I thought would get perhaps a dozen views from friends and family. So far, the darned thing has generated 1.5K comments and been shared more than 19K times. You can read it at the first diary, reposted because of the kind encouragement of uruslafaw, at Trump would flunk my negotiations class.
So if you want to, you can see the PBS segment at What are the ripple effects of a U.S.-China trade war? Here’s PBS’s intro:
President Trump set into motion on Friday a 25 percent fee on more than 800 Chinese imported goods and China hit back with tariffs of its own on products like soybeans, pork and corn, which target areas that voted heavily for Trump. Amna Nawaz talks with David Honig of Indiana University McKinney Law School and Yasheng Huang of MIT's Sloan School of Management.
<<P.S. You should see Professor Huang’s resume — I hardly deserve to even watch a TV this guy is on, he’s so impressive.>>
It doesn’t look like MSNBC created a short of my segment, so I think you’d have to watch the whole show to see it. My son pulled it off the DVR, but I don’t think it would be particularly cool to violate MSNBC’s copyright for my own bit.
It was a good time, and I had the temerity to do it thanks, in large part, to all of you, to the support that flowed after the NPR bit, and from the give and take, including blood and kisses, we’ve shared in the 14 years we’ve been together on Daily Kos.
Cheers to each and every one of you, and let me know if you hear about that shot.