{"id":72651,"date":"2019-11-18T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72651"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T13:44:23","slug":"open-letter-to-fedexs-fred-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72651","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To FedEx&#8217;s Fred Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Fred Smith, CEO, FedEx<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Crabby Peasant<br>Re:  Debating Big Left<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Smith,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I applaud <a href=\"https:\/\/about.van.fedex.com\/newsroom\/statement-from-frederick-w-smith-chairman-and-ceo-of-fedex-corporation\/\">your challenge to the NYTimes&#8217; publisher<\/a>, Arthur Sulzberger, to a debate between him, his business editor, your tax executive and yourself over your enterprises&#8217; relative tax burdens and financial contributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also note that progs &#8211; whether in government or the media &#8211; never deign to debate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know that, I mean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If so, carry on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Fred Smith, CEO, FedExFrom: Mitch Berg, Crabby PeasantRe: Debating Big Left Mr. Smith, I applaud your challenge to the NYTimes&#8217; publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, to a debate between him, his business editor, your tax executive and yourself over your enterprises&#8217; relative tax burdens and financial contributions. I also note that progs &#8211; whether in government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72652,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72651\/revisions\/72652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}