Does Paul Krugman know he doesn't understand math?

[CTyankee]

I wonder who should break the news to him. It's got to be devastating and surely he'll get fired from his New York Times OpEd columnist's job. Also, that great new opportunity at CUNY? Forget about it, Paul, you're gonna be one out of work economist! Why, I'll even bet the Nobel committee will demand its prize back!

It's got to be true because Joe Scarborough just announced it today on Morning Joe! He said Prof. K just didn't understand math...on Social Security and Medicare. So all those charts and math models? I guess Joe would say throw them out since Joe knows better.

I hope I see Joe Scarborough's carefully worked equations proving Paul Krugman is a math phony SOON! I can't wait...

[ck4829]

1. Still laugh over righties spread the 'Paul Krugman has gone bankrupt' joke as real a while back

[CTyankee]

2. In a way, I really hope Dr. K ignores Scar...

he doesn't need to punch down.

OTOH, nothing would give me more pleasure than to see Joe Scar humiliated. Perhaps Dr. K should invite Joe to present his dissenting math models and charts...yeah, Joe, put your money where your mouth is...

[Orrex]

3. It's like the 2000 Presidential debates

Gore gave an detailed explanation of the economy re: social security, etc..

"Fuzzy math," chuckled Dubya.


And Dubya's rebuttal was considered credible and persuasive.

[spanone]

4. i saw that sanctimonious prick scarborough excuse the entire right for dismissing climate change

it's all because Al Gore 'overreached' on global warming. it's not their fault.

i turned if off immediately. what a stupid fuck. and john meacham sat there nodding his head like joe was absolutely right.

[CTyankee]

5. Joe should also demand that Yale rescind it's B.A. summa cum laude and MIT's Ph.D to Dr. K.

Harvard should demand to get its B.A. summa cum laude back from Al Gore...both of those schools are obviously effed up...

[spanone]

6. bwahahahahaaa...he's pathetic in his attacks.

[merrily]

12. Meachum, Barnicle--all of them--know which side their bread is buttered on.

So does Joe. They are all obviously delivering what MSNBC wants.

[The Magistrate]

7. That Man Is A Waste Of Space, Ma'am

[vi5]

8. Keep watching Scarborough and he gets the last laugh. n/t

[rurallib]

9. amen to that

Imagine what the morning could be like with someone on the left in that slot.
I'd like to see Laura Flanders get a shot.

[underpants]

15. When Imus got the boot they tried out several potential hosts

Including Stephanie Miller - informed, knows how to be entertaining from her stand up days, and very attractive (sorry this IS still TV). Hmmm all those attributes and their could be some sort of alternative for the public as they venture out for the day....... naw can't have that. So they have it to Joe who was in the nowhere land of an afternoon timeslot. Oh and they sold sponsorship to Starbucks.

It seems like all Joe and Mika do off air is pose for those black and white photos

[CTyankee]

10. My OP was supposed to be sarcastic humor...

I'm laughing AT him...just pointing out how ridiculous he looks and how he doesn't even seem to know or care that he looks ridiculous...

[vi5]

17. I got that. You're still watching him though.

Yes, I know "Oh, I like to see what the other side is doing, blah blah blah.....has good guests, etc."

Heard it all before, don't care. He's a POS and nobody needs to watch him to know what the other side is doing/saying and they can see his guests interviewed elsewhere.

[winstars]

19. I haven't seen the "good guests" meme used here in a while since its not true anymore...

IMHO, most of us who sometimes watch the show do so to get the days repug talking points early. Everyone here knows his issues with dead interns, and know he is a huge POS. But there is something to be said for knowing what these birdbrains are saying. Except for Harold Ford, NO ONE needs to know ANYTHING that jerk off has to say!!! LOL

I don't think that the few people here who watch and report back to the masses helps Joe Scum in any way, on the contrary, I thinks it makes DU a better place...Information is power kinda thing...

my 2 cents...

[immoderate]

26. LOL! Harold Ford is there to make Joe look smart.

--imm

[CTyankee]

28. I know it drives some DUers nuts to hear us say the talking points thingie but it's true.

I watch MJ while having my breakfast and reading my paper. Just gets a start to the day. It's usually muted during the execrable guests, like Tom Coburn and other rethug Congress folks and the boring sports segment. I turn the show off after the first hour unless there is someone coming on I REALLY want to see (seldom). Hubby can't stand Joe and has his breakfast in the dining room and reading the papers. I usually go up to my computer room and get my morning fix on DU...where I complain about Joe Scar,LOL!

[CTyankee]

23. Shame on me!

I've been a bad girl.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. One Dead Intern + Zero Indictments = Joe Scarborough

The math is simple...

[riqster]

16. And he has the gall to bring up Lewinsky...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. Just once...

I'd like to hear a guest say, "Well, at least Bill let her live..."

[riqster]

21. Damn straight.

[DeSwiss]

13. Well, he is stunningly superficial, it's almost embarassing to listen to him.

- Ziggie says so himself!

About Joe:

K&R

[QuestForSense]

22. Now THIS is how to bring down the hammer!

Seeing its use on a genuine bonehead like Scarborough really cheered me up. Thanks for posting.

[DeSwiss]

32. De nada.

[CTyankee]

24. I saw that when he first said it...notice how Mika makes a little face while Joe is talking...she

knew what was coming...and it came all right! Right in his face!

[DeSwiss]

31. I saw that too!!!!

- I'm sure she's heard it many, many times......

[CTyankee]

33. Joe makes fun of what happened now and even had a T shirt made that said

"Stunningly Superficial" on it. They showed it on Morning Joe not long after this particular exchange happened.

Ya gotta live for those moments, live on TV, though...

[Fred Sanders]

14. The talking heads have a vast overinflation of their own egos, reading the teleprompters makes them

experts on everything. And the politicians they host are equally expert, so it becomes a circle jerk of ordinary people pretending to know the extraordinary things experts gain in each field only by years of study and experience.

But all things are equal on the split screen, 50/50 every time.

[yellowcanine]

18. A little like saying Einstein did not understand physics........

[CTyankee]

25. Joe would say that if Einstein said something he disagreed with.

Scar is a piece of work...

[liberal N proud]

27. There is math and then there is FOX Math

Fox Math uses a whole different set of multipliers, divisors and quotients than Math.

FOX Math can be used to help win elections with help from the SCOTUS.

FOX Math helps you deny Climate Change and ignore Obamacare enrolment numbers.

FOX Math is really handy when you want to slant a poll to sway public opinion.

Then there is the way FOX math makes crisis or international incidents much more severe under a Democratic President than they are under a Republican.

____________________________

FOX Math can learned in the same place as FOX history and FOX Science.

[Gothmog]

29. Morning Joe is an idiot

I can not watch this show when Joe is on. Joe's stupidity is painful to watch

[CTyankee]

30. Actually, he can sometimes be entertaining. Like when he starts yelling and waving his arms.

He went after Chuck Todd in such a rant that Todd was visibly bewildered and stuttering. Later he asked Sam Stein about something and Stein said "I'm afraid to answer after that!" It was a funny moment. Stein looked genuinely hesitant to try conversing with such an out of control guy...

[Puglover]

34. Why anyone tunes into that

ridiculous farce of a TV show a mystery to me.

That bloviating (very possibly) murdering ass makes me gag.

He does have nice hair through.

[CTyankee]

35. It is a strange fascination, to be sure. I'm kinda curious to see the next meltdown.

He and Mika weren't on today but Brian Sullivan of CNBC was on and came apart at the seams on today's Republican Party to Nicolle Wallace (the lone conservative on the panel). He had been invited on to talk about Tim Geithner, since Sullivan is a finance reporter. He went completely off script or topic and went on his own rant. It was a lot of fun! You'd probably like it, including the stunned look of the other panel members.

[Puglover]

36. I live in Northern Ecuador.

Although I am certainly not above snickering at imploding Republican pundits the hummingbirds, mountains are much better for my blood pressure.

[CTyankee]

37. Man, that sounds like paradise!

I have thought about revisiting South America...I was in Peru and Brazil when I was 17 and was blown away by the exotic beauty, esp. in Brazil. That was MANY years ago...

P.S. I love your sig line...it gave me a great morning laugh!

[Puglover]

38. We are at about 8000 feet and smack dab on the Equator.

So it's literally 365 days of Spring a year. Also relatively close to the US for visiting family and friends.

I feel very blessed.

[CTyankee]

39. Do you have a job posting there or family?

[CTyankee]

41. It's lovely. I had no idea that there were ex-pats from the U.S. there...

it must be a nice place to live.