NPR Loves PorcFest!

PorcFest 2011 has already been featured in TWO news releases (a podcast/article and a radio spot/article) by NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO! The kicker? FAIR (and even FAVORABLE) COVERAGE!

Early in the week PorcFest was visited by Robert from Planet Money on NPR. He was interested most in the economic aspect of PorcFest, specifically the voluntary trade, lack of government regulation, trading value for value (and shunning FRNs), etc.

Listen here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/28/137478762/the-tuesday-podcast-...

Shout out to George Mandrik Skouros as Robert goes straight for George's bacon!

Be sure to give this one a full listen, you're going to be pleasantly surprised!

Later in the week (hilariously coinciding with Buzz's Bigger Gay Dance Party) Josh Rogers from NHPR arrives to cover Gary Johnson's short visit. His arrival preceeded the presidential candidate's, and I noticed him (he was quite out of place) walking around the periphery of the aforementioned party. An unvarnished conversation/interview ensued, and much to his credit he chose the one comedic line and skipped the rest.

Listen here: http://www.npr.org/2011/06/26/137429473/porcfest-voters-ponder-which-can...

Here is the comedic quote making the rounds (you can mail me at curtis@porcfest.com):

I'm a big fan of Ron Paul. I tell people he's my favorite government thug. But he's still a government thug, you know.

 

But I'm quite fond of this one as well. Props to Gary Johnson for standing tall (though I think it'd be hilarious if attending PF became a politcal career ender):

ROGERS: That view was common at this burning man of libertarianism, where some wore pistols and knocked back cocktails, and others practiced yoga and traded silver as currency. But could embracing such a counter-cultural crowd be good politics for a would-be president? Gary Johnson seemed to think so.

 

Mr. GARY JOHNSON: Those things don't bother me at all.

 

ROGERS: Johnson acted like another face in the crowd though he was happy to talk to anyone who approached. The Republican knows he's a long shot. But he says if New Hampshire was right for the Free State Project it might just be right for him.

 

Mr. JOHNSON: And I just thought, wow, this is really terrific. And that it came here, man, it just speaks volumes, you know, to New Hampshire.

 

Now tell me, when did you ever dream that the Porcupine Freedom Festival would get such great coverage from National Public Radio?