An Exceedingly Rotten Article

There's good journalism. There's bad journalism....And then there's gutter journalism. A perfect example of the latter is an article that recently appeared in the "Huffington Post". A "reporter" there took the testimony of ONE anonymous and obviously disgruntled employee of Walmart and proceeded to do a hit-job on the giant retailer. According to this employee, Walmart has track record of donating rotten produce to food banks and then writing it off on their income tax. It's absurd, folks...................................................................................................First of all, the response to the article by people who, you know, ACTUALLY MANAGE AND WORK AT FOOD BANKS says that the charges here are total bullshit. Walmart, according to these folks, always presents their donated items professionally and none of these folks have ever had a problem with the quality. Secondly, food banks just flat-out don't accept bad food. If they cannot use the food, they will not take it....And as far as this tax write-off goes (Walmart will supposedly get a 300-something million dollar credit for their 1.75 billion dollar overall food donation), does the writer think that Walmart SHOULDN'T take the deduction? I mean, come on, it's not like Walmart attorneys wrote the frigging tax code here........................................................................................................Look, folks, I'm not saying that Walmart is perfect. They clearly aren't (they should, for example, be providing their employees better health insurance plans). But for the "Huffington Post" to run an article such as this is decidedly dirty pool. Hopefully some of the more honorable progressives will call them out on it.