Krugman faux-pas

[Bradford DeLong]

>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/opinion/05KRUG.html?ex=1019012605&ei=1&en=
>59284cdde8e9721e
>
>Krugman is going to get killed for this:
>
>"But this crisis is different, if only because it is so awful. The unfolding
>tragedy in the Middle East reduces me and many others to despair in a way
>that Sept. 11 never did."
>
>Is he nuts?  Are the editors nuts?  They couldn't add a coupla sentences to
>this paragraph to explain the nuance of this statement?  One of the few
>people in mass media on a regular basis who says ok stuff and he has to
>write this?  I can hear every right-wing talk-show, on radio, internet and
>tv, going on about this. A great tid-bit to feed the Rube Gallery. Another
>example of liberalism.

Well, that's the danger of saying what you think and writing 
quickly--that you don't think hard enough about how the right will 
distort what you say...

Brad DeLong