This is why we hate them

Hate is nothing but a four-letter word. Whatever. 

It's always fascinating to experience liberals hagiographically profile other liberals. Evan Thomas's piece in Newsweek about more-liberal Nobel Laureatte, NYT Op-Ed page nutcase Paul Krugman is no exception. The nonexistent, er, unstated subtext - which Thomas stumbles into, because and not in spite of his own glaring ignorance of the subject - is that Krugman thinks The Dear Leader isn't doing enough to wreck the economy. 

Thomas dances around it using the limber rhetoric of the follower. In essence, Krugman - who I just described as a nut - is at least honest enough to note that Obama has not followed ideological diktat closely enough. This perturbs Thomas, presumably because he's not as smart as Krugman.  Having not met either man, I can state flaty that Thomas is not as smart as Krugman, not because Krugman has a Nobel while Thomas writes for a party organ like Newsweek, but because Thomas and his ilk take their "smart points" from people like Krugman. 

I'm frineds with a fair share of uber-brains of the academic persuasion, and even the ones I love, even the ones I consider mentors, would I never describe as "sweet." 

Also, what is particularly enjoyable about this moment is that Krugman thinks he has a megaphone, especially a big one. It's sad when a Nobel winner and acclaimed economist like Krugman doesn't realize he's doing mop-up duty for Meghan McCain. And, as a final observation, only a liberal could bask in the glory of having a proftiable microphone just as "the wold [is] going to hell."

 Seriously:

Krugman is having his 15 minutes and enjoying it, although at moments, as I followed him around last week, he seemed a little overwhelmed. He is an unusual mix, at once nervous, shy, sweet and fiercely sure of himself. He enjoys his outsider's power: "No one has as big a megaphone as I have," he says. "Aside from the world going to hell, it's great." He is in much demand on the talk-show circuit: PBS's "The NewsHour" and "Charlie Rose" on Monday last week, ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" this past Sunday. S