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Tuesday, December 23, 2003
The Creature From Lucianne's Vagina.....
is whining and lying again:
I think I've figured it out. Paul Krugman is the media equivalent of John McCain. McCain was a reasonable, decent conservative who was implicated in a money-scandal. In response, he went batty about campaign-finance-reform. I think he's still a decent guy in other ways. But when it comes to CFR he lost the ability to think seriously. He claimed that everyone was corrupt even though he could not name anyone in particular who was corrupt.
Something similar is going on with Krugman. He used to write some pretty reasonable stuff in the mid-1990s. He got paid boatloads for speeches, to sit on boards etc. He was up to his beard in academic-media-business incestuousness. Then he got his NYT column and he was forced to sever all such relationships. This freed him up to denounce everyone else even while claiming his pwn(sic) purity, even when it was revealed that he'd taken big dollars from Enron himself. Rightly exposed as a hypocrite -- and quite often a hack -- he did what is natural to most humans. He dug deeper into denial. He became more strident. More angry. he protested too much over and over again to prove he was the exception to the very rule he has asserted but not proved. He probably also became addicted to his fan mail (and convinced himself is(sic) biggest fans are wise and perceptive), a real danger in the internet age.
Anyway, when I read him now iI(sic) see him as a psychological and political phenomena, not as a serious person who thinks about things in a serious way. I have no doubt his fans think the same thing about me and many of my NR colleagues. That's fine. My only complaint is that I wish we, as conservative cronies of corporate America, could get paid a fraction of what this shining paladin of the proletariat makes (working for the War Room of corporate media, I might add).
First off, "when it was revealed" was when Krugman made the disclaimer in an article that he wrote about Enron for Fortune magazine. How devious of Krugman to "out" himself, obviously the sign of a sick mind or possibly a "psychological and political phenomena" whatever that may be.
Then Jonah gets to the heart of the matter (which sounds an awful lot like Horowitz Syndrome): there is a conspiracy against conservative pundits that keeps them (the pundits) from making a living foisting RNC talking points on a public that doesn't even know they (the pundits) exist.
If Jonah would actually get off the couch and do some work instead of begging what few readers he now has to do his work for him, perhaps he could find a corporate sugar-daddy like his good friends William F Buckley and George Will.
Whoops. Looks like that gravy train is already off the tracks....
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