I recently viewed this old interview of Milton Friedman by Phil Donahue. See the interview here.
Note that Friedman smiles, speaks softly and makes his point brilliantly by turning questions back to Donahue. There is no yelling or interrupting. You are largely left reaching your own conclusions, and it is a far less threatening way to teach the strength of the free market principles.

Friedman has an obvious command of the subject and has thought it through thoroughly, but he is as friendly as your favorite uncle giving you sage and friendly advice.

“Is the puruit of political self interest any nobler than the pursuit of economic self interest.?”

Compare this to the harshness of talk radio today. The ideas may be sound, but they can learn a lot about the delivery from Uncle Milton.

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