Glenn Reynolds Goes Deep
I want to put this in a separate post from the Krugman conversation below because I think it deserves it. This is Instapundit Glenn Reynold's reaction to Paul Krugman's disgusting and, I thought, mentally unbalanced 9-11 blog.
EVERYBODY'S ANGRY to judge from my email, about Paul Krugman’s typo-burdened 9/11 screed. Don’t be angry. Understand it for what it is, an admission of impotence from a sad and irrelevant little man. Things haven’t gone the way he wanted lately, his messiah has feet of clay — hell, forget the “feet” part, the clay goes at least waist-high — and it seems likely he’ll have even less reason to like the coming decade than the last, and he’ll certainly have even less influence than he’s had. Thus, he tries to piss all over the people he’s always hated and envied. No surprise there. But no importance, either. You’ll see more and worse from Krugman and his ilk as the left nationally undergoes the kind of crackup it’s already experiencing in Wisconsin. They thought Barack Obama was going to bring back the glory days of liberal hegemony in politics, but it turned out he was their Ghost Dance, their Bear Shirt, a mystically believed-in totem that lacked the power to reverse their onrushing decline, no matter what the shamans claimed.
I think Glenn has this exactly right. I think there are plenty of reasons for our hopes to be high today and Krugman's hateful nuttiness is proof of it.
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Jul '10
Re: Glenn Reynolds Goes Deep
I think Glenn is counting his chickens before they are hatched on this one. Let's see if Krugman continues to enjoy the same kind of screen time. Twitter's #FirePaulKrugman hash notwithstanding, I am not convinced the New York Times will sack him over this.
Jun '10
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It's very lonely for Paul. The only people that really understand him are in psychiatric institutions under suicide watch.
Dec '10
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I guarantee that the Times will not fire Krugman over today's column. His contention -- that after 9/11, we had a sense of national unity that was squandered -- is not controversial on the Left. They understand it as he does: that after 9/11, America was united behind Progressivism, and that the apostasy from national unity was on the Right.
Of course, that rewrites history: in reality, plenty of the people currently claiming to be or to sympathize with Progressives were in the wake of 9/11 calling for war and retribution, just like the folks on the Right. SInce that historical fact is so distastefully embarrassing to them, they simply shove it down the memory hole.
Oct '10
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Am aware this is a wasted post. Krugman just threw a few rocks and retreated in a most cowardly manner.
No substance, all so much grafitti, is that all that is left of the left ? Maybe there is a Klavin on the Culture video there.
Edited on Sep 11, 2011 at 10:51pmAug '11
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Maybe we'll get lucky and Krugman will be carried away by one of the aliens from the fake space invasion he proposes to stimulate the economy. Oh, wait, he already lives on another planet.
Edited on Sep 11, 2011 at 11:04pmDec '10
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Understand it for what it is, an admission of impotence from a sad and irrelevant little man.
Andrew, you know, Krugman did predict all 9 of the recessions caused by GWB and those savage tax cuts.
Mar '11
Re: Glenn Reynolds Goes Deep
As usual, Prof Reynolds nails it.
I hope he is right, but I fear we still have a long way to go before the Krugmans (and Pauls) are so thoroughly discredited that they become irrelevant. After all, we are still discussing the 1930's.
We will know a little more about that in Nov 2012 - until then, I remain a Steynian pessimist, with glimpses of Rushian optimism.
Feb '11
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Just because American progressivism loses, it doesn’t follow that American conservatism wins.
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Glenn Reynolds is right to compare Krugman and the barbarians in Wisconsin. The adolescent left is in for a difficult time, and they are going to spew a lot of vitriol.
My fear is that the leaders on our side will blow it and that they will be back with a vengeance.
Jan '11
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The word we're looking for is "tantrum."
Aug '10
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"The adolescent left" - perfectly coined.
They think they know more than they really know.
They believe they feel more deeply than anyone else on the planet.
They whine when they don't get their way.
They are obsessed with being cool and popular.
They are stunned when they have to take responsibiltiy for their actions.
"The adolescent left" is a pitch-perfect description.
Aug '10
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I bope you are not surprised when it becomes apparent that Krugman is not careening off the carefully constructed narrative path of the NYT. There is no path, there was no care in it's construction and Krugman perfectly reflects the hopes and philosophies of the ownership of the paper.
That's what an Op-Ed page does, especially the one at the NYT.
Consider if Maureen Dowd disagreed with him, it would matter not and never be printed. As if Krugman ran over her dog on the way to work, Ms Dowd's protests would never see the light of day. And that would be an instance of something actually happening that could be recounted in a factual manner.
The facts of the accident, the dog's injuries, and the obvious blame on the Krugman tricycle driver are all things that would not have fit the NYT narrative. And the ensuing confrontation between Dowd and Krugman over the dead dog ? That's for the break room or the bar across the street. Nobody buries the facts better than the NYT.
And besides Bush and Cheney probably killed the dog.
Edited on Sep 12, 2011 at 7:46amJun '10
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If Krugman is ever sent packing (unlikely), let's hope his successor has small feet because he or she will have small shoes to fill.
The smallness of the man is immense (to coin an oxymoron).
Edited on Sep 12, 2011 at 11:59amDec '10
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Mr. Krugman's comments are not a small thing. I'm surprised that the NYT - whatever their other deficiencies - doesn't have an editor assigned to check their reporters and columnists to assure that they are not mentally decompensating before their work reaches the public. I'm quite serious. I once had an employee like this in a rather sensitive role. We caught her and ushered her into treatment quietly and before she could compromise or embarrass herself or others. It wasn't pleasant and I can imagine how difficult it would be with a man of Krugman's ego but mental health breaks are no respecters of place, education or social class. I genuinely believe that this man is in trouble and perhaps crisis.