Listeners to last week's Friday News Roundup on NPR's Diane Rehm show tasted some local flavor about 33 minutes in, when Susan Page came back from a break and said the following:
We were talking about the Beer Summit before the break. Here's an email from Tom Schafly, who is president, he says, of the Saint Louis Brewery. And he says: 'As the president of what is now the largest American-owned brewery in St. Louis, I was extremely disappointed that the only products served at the so-called Beer Summit were brewed by foreign companies. Billions of tax dollars were spent to bail out American automobile companies. What about American breweries, which now account for only 5 percent of the U.S. market? We're not asking for federal aid,' he said, 'but if our taxes are going to pay for a photo opportunity at the White House, surely at least one beer from an American-owned brewery would be worth showcasing.'
As two of the commentators ventured, it's possible the White House simply forgot about this, and assumed that Bud Light was still made by an American company. -- Stephen Schenkenberg
