Murray Rothbard Blackout on FOX News

During a FOX News interview of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, at one point, Mackey lists his economic inspirations as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. There's no question Mackey mentions all three. It's very clear on the tape. But in the transcript of the show, the reference to Murray Rothbard is missing:

When I was young, I believed in the myth that business was selfish and greedy, and I certainly didn't want to be a business person. It was never my ambition.

But once I did -- once we did start whole foods and I did have a meet a payroll, I was having trouble. I mean, we had our team members wanted higher pay and our customers saw our prices were too high and suppliers, we were small and they didn't want to give them discounts. So we lost half of the capital. We had $45,000 to start with and we lost $23,000 of it the first year. Renee and I only got paid $200 a month and people were saying I was, you know, kind of a bad guy now because I was a business person.

So, I threw out that philosophy, didn't work, and I began to read widely and I read a number of free market economists like Frederick Hayek and Ludwig Von Mises and I discovered these explanations of the world worked a lot better than the philosophy I had previously. I learned the business is the greatest value creator in the world. We create value for customers, for employees, for suppliers, for investors, the communities we're part of. Business people are heroic. We're not the bad guys. We're the good guys.

Another case of missing Rothbard. An innocent mistake, or is there more to it?

(ht Brian Drake)