[lbo-talk] LBO-talk Fundrace

[Carl Remick]

>From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>
>
>>The point is, Brad is not "somebody"; he's "Somebody."  He's one of those 
>>Council of Economic Advisers-caliber economists who are called on to 
>>sanction national policy and, in times of austerity, tell the people to 
>>"pull in their belts," etc.  This appeal is more seemly (at least) when it 
>>comes from cadaverous types like Alan Greenspan or Robert Rubin (whatever 
>>their myriad other limitations) and not porkers like DeLong or Larry 
>>Lindsey.  Being in the public eye in such a capacity imposes some 
>>responsibility for not being a symbolic hypocrite.
>>
>>Carl
>
>Then please enjoy making fun of everyone who is fat from this point 
>forward. I've wasted enough time on you. I assume that you have a new role 
>as "Official List Spell Checker"? I look forward to seeing continued 
>corrections in your newly self-appointed role. It was certainly a scathing 
>criticism of what I posted. That spelling error certainly refutes anything 
>I have to say just as much as Brads or Moores weight has anything to do 
>with their opinions. At least you are consistent.
>
>John Thornton

You are apostrophe-challenged, too, but be that as it may.

Both you (and Doug, in another post on this subject) seem a little slow on 
the uptake here, so let me go through this again.  I'm not talking about 
making fun of "everyone who is fat."  I'm making fun of Brad DeLong, one of 
the nation's Bigfoot (euphemism)  Economists.  I find it noteworthy when 
economists -- high priests of the moderation and prudence that capitalism 
counsels to the lowly -- evince hopeless self-indulgence in any way.  
Basically, you and Doug would make it impossible for there to be, say, 
editorial cartoonists -- because in one way or another editorial cartoonists 
all do violence to PC conventions.

But enough.  The real reason I've been steaming about BDeL concerns a 
gratuitous remark he made in his blog about Barbara Ehrenreich being 
"infantile."  If anything presents a case of arrested development, it's the 
corrupt, liberal economic regime that rules us all -- the regime that Brad 
does so much to defend as an economic establishment macher/maven.

So there.

Carl

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