Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: say it ain't so, Paul

["Carl Remick" <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
>
> > Oh, that's OK then.  I'll stop my carping and let PK continue
> > his tireless task of speaking truth to power.
> >
> > Carl
>
> I know you're being ironic, but I'll reply in a non-ironic way: PK doesn't
> speak truth to power except within the usual political context of "what's
> good for capital"

Seems to be bit of cognitive dissonance here.  Reading Krugman's NY Times
column today, I am given to understand that this whole flap over his Enron
connections is really a right-wing attempt to defame Krugman because he is
such a fire-breathing lefty, e.g.:

"... reading those attacks [on me concerning Enron], you would think that I
was a major-league white-collar criminal.  It's tempting to take this
vendetta as a personal compliment: Some people are so worried about the
effect of my writing that they will try anything to get me off this page.
But actually it was part of a broader effort by conservatives to sling Enron
muck toward their left, hoping that some of it would stick."
[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/25/opinion/25KRUG.html]

So, far from being a self-serving opportunist, Krugman is actually the
left's last best hope.

Carl




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