Actually, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s me, and it\u2019s not really that odd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Still, it’s fairer than Krugman is…well, ever. \u00a0As in this bit – which may be the dumbest piece of writing I’ve ever read in a column by a “major” columnist (emphasis added):<\/p>\n
What happened after 9\/11 \u2014 and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not<\/strong> \u2014 was deeply shameful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n“This is what you think, whether you admit it or not”.<\/p>\n
It’s a a claim common to drama queens, 5’4″ guys selling Amway distributorships, and junior high girls worldwide.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How many greasy black suns orbit Planet Academia?<\/p>\n
The memory of 9\/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In its heart, the nation knows that Paul Krugman offers less intrinsic value to society than most drunk drivers.<\/p>\n
In his heart, Krugman knows it too.<\/p>\n
(Nah, it’s not very satisfying, actually. \u00a0Not sure what Krugman gets from it).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Obviously, Krugman’s a gutless punk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Paul Krugman may not have written the most reprehensible column in his entire career as a cossetted, ivory-tower academic – but for the life of me, I don’t remember anything he’s ever done that’s worse than last weekend’s “9\/11” column: Is it just me, or are the 9\/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don\u2019t think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22841"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22856,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22841\/revisions\/22856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}