Arnold Kling describes his NPR non-appearance:
Earlier today, I got an email from someone at NPR asking if I was available to comment on the President’s speech afterward. I replied with my phone number, and the woman called me (not an on-air personality. I will withhold her name.) She started asking me my opinions on various things. When she asked my opinion on having Federal agencies refinance everyone’s mortgage, I said that I thought that homeowners had already had enough subsidies thrown at them. She replied, “But I have friends with underwater mortgages!” She simply could not conceive of anyone holding my views.
An hour later, she left a voice mail saying sorry, but it was not going to work for me to appear on the show. She said they would keep me in mind and perhaps use me some other time. After hell freezes over would be my guess.