Paul Krugman is apparently tired of being called “shrill” while wearing his “columnist” hat, particularly, so it would seem, when the label is applied by the Washington Post’s own David S. “Massively Boring” Broder. Since I read Dave’s column on a fitful basis, I’ve never caught him in the act of dissing Paul, but presumably he has and now that Paul has a Nobel I guess he feels he has the right to throw his weight around just a bit, in the manner, one might say, of a massive douchebag.
At any rate, in this quiet entry, Paul plants the dagger in the back of poor Dave by linking to a singularly obtuse column Broder wrote praising President Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina!* You did a heckuva job, Davie!
*Sample Broderian prose: “It took almost no time for President Bush to put his stamp on the national response to the tragedy that has befallen New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, a reminder that modern communications have reshaped the constitutional division of powers in our government in ways that the Founding Fathers never could have imagined.”
