Posted on 05/14/2003 4:29:33 AM PDT by kattracks
In a blistering commentary, Fox News star Neil Cavuto castigated New York Times liberal columnist Paul Krugman, after the radical liberal and Bush hater accused him of blatant partisanship.
Said the gentlemanly and usually mild-mannered Cavuto "Since no good deed goes unpunished, leave it to The New York Times to take a shot at me. Not The Times itself, but columnist Paul Krugman, who blasts me for my apparent blatant partisanship."
In his Times column Krugman wrote that "Neil Cavuto of Fox News is an anchor, not a commentator. Yet after Baghdad's fall he told ‘those who opposed the liberation of Iraq’ -- a large minority -- that ‘you were sickening then; you are sickening now."
Cavuto fired back with this double-barreled blast: "First off, Mr. Krugman, let me correct you: I'm a host and a commentator, just like you no doubt call yourself a journalist and a columnist. So my sharing my opinions is a bad thing, but you spouting off yours is not?
"Exactly who's the hypocrite, Mr. Krugman? Me, for expressing my views in a designated segment at the end of the show? Or you, for not so cleverly masking your own biases against the war in a cheaply written column?
"You're as phony as you are unprofessional. And you have the nerve to criticize me, or Fox News, and by extension, News Corporation?
"Look, I'd much rather put my cards on the table and let people know where I stand in a clear editorial, than insidiously imply it in what's supposed to be a straight news story. And by the way, you sanctimonious twit, no one -- no one -- tells me what to say. I say it. And I write it. And no one lectures me on it. Save you, you pretentious charlatan.
"Let me see if I have this right, Mr. Krugman. Journalists who opposed this war are OK. Those who support it are not. Says who? You?
"I'm less of a journalist because I was in favor of this war, but you're more of a journalist because you were not? You imply that by being in favor of this war, I'm pandering, and by extension, my company is pandering to the White House.
"Nowhere does it ever occur to you, one can legitimately not agree with you. That doesn't make me less of a journalist. But, Mr. Krugman, it does make you more of an ass. Here's the difference: You insinuated it, I just said it.
"Now may I suggest you take your column and shove it?"
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Watching the Old Gray Lady fall apart is providing me with hours of gleeful entertainment.
No more pious wimps.
Take the battle to the enemy, and destroy their lies, deceit and distortions.
Who ever heard of such a thing?
Beneath that baby face is a "dude with a tude".
Cavuto always shoots straight.
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