PBS's Tavis Smiley sandbagged NYT's Krugman

Tavis Smiley's PBS show (hope not a rerun) | 30 Dec | self

[Drango]

Now, I'm not a large woman, just a bit over 5 feet tall. But I really do believe I could whup Krugman's butt.

For sure you could take Robert Reich then. And perhaps George Stephanopoulos. But if Hillary were to get her thighs around you...tap out.

[KosmicKitty]

But if Hillary were to get her thighs around you...tap out.

ROFLMAO - I'll remember that!!

(and thanks for a good end-of-year laugh! Happy New Year!)

[ErnBatavia]

if Hillary were to get her thighs around you...

Not too bad, I suppose....I've made it until after 10, through a couple of Helen Thomas threads without having my first pisschill of the day - until now...

[muir_redwoods]

Definition of an economist:

Some who wonders if something that works in practice will work in theory

[Fido969]

Paul Krugman: The Great Unraveling Author

[Fido969]

For sure you could take Robert Reich then.

That little weasel? I've had craps bigger than him.

[mseltzer]

For sure you could take Robert Reich then. That little weasel? I've had craps bigger than him. Congratulations!

[Fido969]

Well, actually, the crap wasn't THAT big.

What I found amazing was that it was SMARTER than Reich.

[FreeKeys]

I revelled in Krugman shifty-eyed shock

Which are just character actors, and which is the real -- and dangerous -- bug-eating vampire?

[308MBR]

Dangnation there flowerplough!

Don't hold anything back, just say what you feel......

Whew...my ribs hurt after that one. Maybe they aren't "done" yet.

[308MBR]

Seriously, ol' Tavis could eat Juan Williams for lunch.

As an older local woman put it, "Tavis be makin' some cash now. He habbin' to pay da man now ev'ry quah-tur."

I say "Tavis be seein' da man take some fairly serious coin off his a-- fo' a boy 'dat come up kinda rough, and he be lookin' roun' an not likin' da stuff he be feelin' like he be gettin' fo' he money!"

Anyone else needing help with their Ebonics should move to south Georgia immediately. Expect drastic improvement in a couple of years.

As a parting shot, I have this; Mr. Smiley, a lot of us have been in shoes about like yours. When we were in your current condition, we looked around and didn't like what we saw we were getting for our tax dollars. This is a large part of why many of our kids don't go to public school and why we call ourselves conservative and vote GOP.

The parting, parting shot is for us FR'ers. It wasn't THAT long ago that no difference was noted between "conservative" and "GOP". Help reign in the spending. Send some civil servants home to the private sector.