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THE NEW York Times double-crossed writer
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| May 24, 2003
| Richard Johnson
Posted on 05/24/2003 8:04:09 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude
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To: Miss Marple
Krugman took $50,000 from Enron for doing nothing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/610707/posts KRUGMAN AND ENRON (he took money from them... and did nothing in return)
AndrewSullivan.com ^ | 1/18/02 | Andrew Sullivan
Posted on 01/17/2002 10:28 PM PST by xm177e2
KRUGMAN AND ENRON: Were all used to Paul Krugmans insistent attacks on the Bush administrations economic policies, his suspicion of big business, his love of high taxes and greater government spending, and his withering scorn for idle corporate bloat and what he recently called the crony capitalism, epitomized by Enron. So I was a little taken aback by the nugget buried in yesterdays Times that Krugman too has been on Enrons payroll. Even more intriguing is what he was paid for. At the very end of the article we hear Krugmans explanation for taking $50,000 as a consultant for Enron in 1999: "This was an advisory panel that had no function that I was aware of. My later interpretation is that it was all part of the way they built an image. All in all, I was just another brick in the wall." Run that by me again. He took $50,000 to sit on a panel that had no function that I was aware of except to add allure to Enrons image? And today, he is still waxing self-righteous in his column about a corrupt system of regulation that allowed Enron to get away with financial murder. Hes right about the corruption and the need for stronger regulation. But dont you think that someone who bemoans cronyism and corruption might, after this scandal broke, acknowledge in his own column that he himself was an Enron crony and that he contributed to
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05/26/2003 10:47:47 PM PDT
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Grampa Dave
(Time to visit this website and join up: http://www.georgewbush.com/)
To: Miss Marple
OK...who got paid off and by whom?Just to be clear, I am not defending the times, Krugman was one of the people who took cash, but, pretty much in every newspaper, people get paid off, one way or another, the Wall Street Journal had somone who was involved in some very shady business years ago, there have been rumors about the Times Business people, and every gossip columnist in every new york news papers is getting something from somone to say or print something and also it helps them "develop sources". Blair, wants to do a tell all book, I have a feeling he might rip apart the business section, and thats the lifeblood of the times not there political section.
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05/26/2003 11:06:29 PM PDT
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Sonny M
("oderint dum metuant")
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