Introducing Reason's 2009 Webathon! Because Free Minds and Free Markets Aren't Free!

[zswoopingdown]

Did anyone else notice Matt trying not to grin when he got to the part about "created or saved jobs"? :P

[moronpaul]

This is nuts. Why is reasontv panhandling? Why not follow their mantra and SELL THINGS or RUN ADS to generate REVENUE to keep the site up?

HYPOCRITES

[Silvsilvchan]

Technically he is selling subscriptions.

I have no idea why they ran this video like a donation ad though...

[ls1z28chris]

I allowed my subscription to lapse months ago, but continued to follow Reason online. Thanks largely to this video, I decided to defer my renewal no longer. This evening I re-subscribed to Reason.

You can at least be certain that this video got you $20. I look forward to receiving my journals.

[SteveAndIdiAmin]

Are you KIDDING me? Reason is a fringe publication precisely BECAUSE the free markets have spoken. So now you're begging for money like you're some kind of public service?

What the fuck?

[787Bisurdaddy]

You must be joking. Surely you don't think the cartelized media is a free market.

[Scottit]

The free market has not been operating in the US for a long time.

Government intervention continually messes up the economy.

Although the gov usually, mostly has good intentions, plus there is a lot pandering to certain voters, by taking from other voters.

Too many regs & requirements are part of the problem that gov creates.

[ssjpabs]

Your ideology is literally bankrupt, Reason. The market has already spoken. Perhaps you should think about why an excellent writer like Dave Weigel left your organization.

[Scottit]

ssjpabs,

Did you get the title? "Free Markets Aren't Free"

The market did not speak.

If the market was free, there would not have been all those subprime loans & there would not have been a housing bubble, because housing supply would have been able to keep up with demand.

It was about 10 housing markets (urban areas) that reduced the wanted construction which pushed up prices through many restrictions (ie smart growth policies--big misnomer)

[JDCorley]

If you love the free market so much, you'd look at how little money you had and go into a more profitable line of work like serving hamburgers at the local In-N-Out. People who are hungry will pay you for hamburgers. Nobody will ever pay you for the garbage you're currently trying to feed people.

[mdemmons]

To paraphrase someone I read today:

How about if Reason tried the free market and actually put out a product people want to read instead of having to beg people and foundations for welfare?

Does anyone find Matt's whole pitch a bit ironic?

[zuzukachoo]

"Does anyone find Matt's whole pitch a bit ironic?"

Why yes. Especially the part where he disses "bankrupt states looking for a handout."

[Scottit]

demon,

For some reason, people don't like much to pay for education, let alone even read very often.

Thus, Reason & other research think-tanks need money.

[ryanjurek]

What you're saying is, businesses that have to advertise their product to get people to buy it is... ironic?

[highonhayek]

Ordered my 3-year subscription this morning Matt! :D

[TexasJoe1985]

They wrote a bad piece about Ron Paul? Can you provide a link?

[libertyplayground]

Stop writing hit pieces on ron paul

[ireland88]

What are the hit pieces on Ron Paul, do they seriously do that?

I love Ron Paul :(

[caltrop69]

I think dude just made that up. Probably a troll.

[032125]

seriously, cite your source

[libertyplayground]

can you not use google? I mean seriously. You can write a comment on youtube, but you can't use google?

google "ron paul reason" - it'll be the second result, it's about those "newsletters" which ron paul didn't even write

[032125]

No need to get snarky dude. It's nice when someone makes an accusation to have some context in the original statement. Otherwise it tends to sound like a drive by.

[libertyplayground]

sorry

[032125]

No blood no foul. Glad to meet a fellow liberty minded individual.

[enotdetcelfer]

@libertyplayground: source for hit piece claim please, thanks :)

[libertyplayground]

google "ron paul reason newsletters"

reason's a great organization, but that article shouldn't have been written - it was just useless libertarian infighting and personal vendettas.

[enotdetcelfer]

Thanks.. yea I remember reading up on that.

Don't know if I'd call it a hit piece per se because they were actually printed in his newsletter and he should have been more responsible about it's content. I think if anything the article does much to exonerate Paul by showing Rockwell's contributions and "Paleo" agenda. I'd rather know more truth than less, especially about the people I support. Nobody is perfect. It would be a hit piece if they wrote him off because of it. Thanks for the source.

[billyjoeallen]

I'll send money when you assholes publicly apologize to Ron Paul.

[chevydriver1123]

Dont forget about combating the statist Neoconservative agenda

[abarzilai664]

Wish you guys deliver outside the United States :(

[Mastikator]

They don't? :/ aww

[ReasonTV]

We do!