Paul Krugman is now selling houses? Joe Scar says so...

[CTyankee]

Today on Morning Joe stated that "Paul Krugman and his accolades are living in an alternate realty" (on the national debt issue).

Wow. I wish I had accolades serving at MY altar! Especially when my service is performed in my own fixed, real property (maybe a ranch, with horses).

I hope Dr. K has fun with this one in an upcoming NYT blog...

[pinboy3niner]

1. Hmmm...

[CTyankee]

2. PLEASE promise me that you'll send that to Krugman at the NYT!

And another copy to the Morning Joe website!

god, you are funny, Pinboy! Thank you for my second belly laugh of the day (the first was the sleepy one at 6 am...yours is 3 cups of coffee later...I'm jumpin').

[leftynyc]

3. I saw him trashing Krugman this morning

and got to thinking "who knows more about the economy?" A partisan conservative republican who briefly served in congress or a Nobel winning economist. The choice is obvious.

[CTyankee]

5. I always laugh when Scar trashes Krugman...

"You must have a point, Joe...what with your Nobel Prize in Economics and all...hope you stayed awake in class for Professor Krugman's last lecture...oops, I almost forgot...you failed to get into Princeton, didn't you? What's that? You didn't even try...oh...never mind...but about that Nobel of yours...what, no Nobel either? Ulp..."

[MADem]

4. Acolytes?

Acolytes are fawning minions, accolades are praiseworthy tributes.

ac·co·lade
ˈakəˌlād,-ˌläd/Submit
noun
plural noun: accolades
1.
an award or privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit.
"the ultimate official accolade of a visit by the president"
synonyms: honor, privilege, award, gift, title; More
an expression of praise or admiration.
synonyms: tribute, commendation, praise, testimonial, compliment, pat on the back; More
2.
a touch on a person's shoulders with a sword at the bestowing of a knighthood.
https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=accolade

ac·o·lyte noun \ˈa-kə-ˌlīt, -kō-\
: someone who follows and admires a leader

: someone who helps the person who leads a church service

Full Definition of ACOLYTE

1
: one who assists a member of the clergy in a liturgical service by performing minor duties
2
: one who attends or assists : follower
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acolyte

[CTyankee]

6. well, yes...

it was pretty indecipherable to a non-native English learner...I teach ESOL...no way I could gloss over that one...

[MADem]

7. He actually said that? Wow, stupider than I thought!

Where'd he go to school, I wonder?

[CTyankee]

8. U. of Alabama. He's always croaking "roll, tide!"

I guess he thinks it's cute...

[MADem]

9. He probably spells it "Tyde!" And speaking of that, last time I saw those pompous basstids on mah

TV, the Tide was getting rolled like a drunk in an alley by Auburn!

I don't really care about college football, but this shit never gets old! I have an acquaintance who is an INSUFFERABLE fan and this delightful play of the decade is good as a "STFU" reference, and will be for years to come!

[CTyankee]

10. I saw that (and I usually don't watch football).

And sure enough, Monday morning on the show, someone on the show somewhat snarkily asked "How was your weekend, Joe?" Joe was not pleased. During Monday's sport segment he growled "Well, take a good look at it (the video of the winning TD) because you'll NEVER see it again!"

He was definitely a poor loser.

[MADem]

11. Har har har....I wonder if anyone's made a gif of that yet....

It would be perfect to send it to his Shittiness's twitter account! Like voting....early and often....

[JHB]

12. Has the former congressman from the Party of Personal Responsibility...

...owned up to a verbal flub that makes him look dopey? Or is admission of a trivial verbal misstep beneath him?

Anything from him on Twitter or somewhere?

[CTyankee]

13. I don't tweet so I dunno. He actually did correct himself on "realty" but not on "accolades."

Lucky for him it was on a Friday show and everybody will have forgotten about it by Monday's show.

I just checked Krugman's blog and there was no mention. Maybe we should all send Joe this, just to piss him off even more:

[JHB]

14. Doesn't matter. Krugman is indeed living in an alternate reality from Joe Scar's...

...but that's because Joey's "reality" is the ConservoBizzaro Bubble World.

Krugman and his accolades are in the real one.

[CTyankee]

15. I truly think that Joe doesn't know what economists do. In fact, I'll bet Joe never even took

an Econ 101 class. When he had Niall Ferguson (a Krugman hating a'hole) on his show to rant about Krugman, Ferguson disdained Paul for "all those charts of his." Now, I don't know much about Econ but I did take one course, in grad school, cuz I did want to "improve my mind" a bit. I learned something useful: charts are what economists do all day! No kidding! Math. Algebra. Graphing stuff. Stating a hypothesis followed by a mathematical formula to prove the hypothesis.

Who knew?