Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Paul Krugman: I Almost Enjoy Hate Mail

“Boy, do I get hate mail,” Paul Krugman told Yahoo's "Off The Cuff." “There’s a lot of people who really, really hate what I say. I get a lot of stuff calling me a communist, a liar, and actually, various misspellings.”

“It's shocking when you first encounter it. It’s ‘Oh my God, they hate me,’” he said. "I think that most people doing journalistic commentary stuff, they encounter that first wave of hate and they back down. I've been through that to the other side, where I actually almost enjoy it.”

The clip is here.

Hey, make the man happy: pkrugman@princeton.edu

9 comments:

  1. Just sent: Paul, we don't hate WHAT you say, we disagree with it. We hate HOW you say it--distorted, deceptive, manipulative, inflammatory, often hateful.

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  2. I just emailed him asking him for a public debate between Bob Murphy or Wenzel, which of course he will not do.

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  3. When your wrong on most everthing you claim to be a proffesional on, it seems this explains why he keeps being wrong. I love his justification, 'Youz all just haters'. Seems fitting for one of the establishments "top" economic blowhards.

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  4. Hahhahhahahaha you guys are so frustrated

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  5. Here's my missive to PK

    Herr Professor Doktor Krugman,

    What does it feel like to be the worlds most successful intellectual smear merchant, partisan hack and Obama toady? Do you ever get tired of shilling for The Dear Leader and his repugnant band of tyrannical authoritarian ideologues? Please do the world a favor and stop projecting your psychological defects onto others. It's a pathetic and ultimately ineffective coping mechanism that suggests a need for psychological counseling. Maybe you should revert to your former role as an actual economist and give the NY Times bullhorn a rest. I'm sure NYT can find some other Progressive Fascist apologist to man the sinking ship.

    Yours In Liberty,


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  6. I couldn't get past his story of being inspired by the use of math in science fiction to save the world. He's a walking talking science fiction novel. Zombies, space aliens and cults. I finally get Krugman.

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  7. Krugman's just trolling for "wacko" Austrians so he can post a few diatribe's sent to him and declare us all crazy.

    Mark my words.

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  8. For Krugman, any criticism is "hate".

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  9. He's still around? I thought Krugman was abducted by some alien babysitting co-op last year.

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