Krugman Serves a Purpose

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CLXXVI

Donald Luskin blogged, Feb. 6, a letter from one of his readers to the "public editor" at the New York Times. I'm really taken with it (ellipsis in original).

Dear Mr. Okrent:

Donald Luskin, a member of the "Krugman Truth Squad," is encouraging his readers to email you to request that Mr. Krugman be held to accuracy standards in his columns. I am writing to disagree. When a prestigious columnist, in a newspaper that used to be called the "paper of record," is so loose with his facts and writes a column which is so egregiously partisan that he has a cadre of people who gleefully point out his errors and distortions, I think he should be left alone.

It is a source of great amusement to me to watch Paul Krugman get skewered over and over again. He manages to live in some alternate universe in which he is preaching to the faithful (I guess since they are liberal and read the Times it would be incorrect to call them "the great unwashed...") and apparently thinks, or used to think, that no-one would do anything except blindly accept his misstatements.

Leave him alone! Krugman and his columns reinforce my opinion of the New York Times and its readers, and it would be a shame to rein in his flights of fancy.

My sentiments precisely. :-)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 02/11/04 05:34:04 PM
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