The Corner Analyzes Krugman

From the Corner:

He [Krugman] 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 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 biggest fans are wise and perceptive), a real danger in the internet age.

Of course, our friend and regular Corner poster Jonah Goldberg conviently ignores the important fact that Krugman disclosed the money he got from Enron when he wrote about it before and after the scandals and when the misdeeds of Enron were exposed returned the money (I believe). Ah yes, what a hypocrite! How dare a journalist uphold the professional standards of journalism so flagrantly, he ought to be flogged untill his back is a patch work quilt of bloody lash marks! Speaking of becoming addicted to fan mail, Mr. Goldberg regularly reposts fan mail on the Corner, for example this one he got in response to his psychoanalysis of Krugman.

Jonah wraps up his sad, factually challenged post with this piece of whining:

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).

Ah, poor poor Jonah Goldberg, he doesn't know how to make any money as a conservative hack, maybe he should go talk to Richard Perle.