CNN keeps stamping on their sour grapes over the Trump victory.
In a CNN This Morning segment on corporate donations to the Trump inauguration, substitute host Danny Freeman touted how The Wall Street Journal “identified at least 11 companies and trade associations who are backing the inauguration, despite once saying they would not donate to him after the January 6th attack on the Capitol.”
Freeman turned for former Democrat congressman Max Rose, who was outraged. “God bless ’em: they’re full of it, right? I mean, two years ago, you care about one thing, and now you obviously don’t. It’s clear that what they’re in it for is their shareholder interest.”
Uh, yeah—they better be!
As the great free-market economist Milton Friedman put it in his Doctrine:
“An entity’s greatest responsibility lies in the satisfaction of the shareholders. Therefore, the…
