A pet peeve is everyone jumping on a statement when a person said nothing wrong. But they will include this in his obituary, I’m sure.
Whichever way he meant it is not offensive. If he acknowledged the human toll is WORSE but said at least we can be grateful the economic harm won’t be so bad, he did nothing to diminish the importance of the human toll.
If he meant we can be grateful the human toll is less than the economic toll, likewise.
Inartful but really meaningless, and he immediately said he made a mistake.
” Inartful but really meaningless, and he immediately said he made a mistake. “
If you had bothered to read the rest of my post (it was only one sentence, after all) instead of leaping to a knee-jerk defense —
You would have seen that my criticism was centered around the fact that Mr. Kudlow drew conclusions from facts that could not possibly been in evidence....