Who is Tina Brown? Seriously? Anyone? Bueller?
Glenn was excited to see someone in Newsweek stand up and point out that Barack Obama has done a horrible job leading the country, but on radio he wondered how much heat the magazine and it’s publisher must be getting. Well, it doesn’t seem to matter as writer Niall Ferguson has hit back at many of his critics for their ridiculous comments in response to his article.
In a blog post, Ferguson wrote:
First prize goes to Berkeley professor Brad DeLong, whose blog opened with the headline “Fire-His-Ass-Now.” “He lied,” rants DeLong. “Convene a committee at Harvard to examine whether he has the moral character to teach at a university.” My own counter-suggestion would be to convene a committee at Berkeley to examine whether or not Professor DeLong is spending too much of his time blogging when he really should be conducting serious research or teaching his students. For example, why hasn’t Professor DeLong published that economic history of the 20th century he’s been promising for the past six years? It can’t be writer’s block, that’s for sure.
Runner up is James Fallows of The Atlantic for his hilariously pompous post “As a Harvard Alum, I Apologize.” Well, as an Oxford alum, I laugh.
In third place comes Krugman with his charge of “unethical commentary … a plain misrepresentation of the facts” requiring “an abject correction.” The idea of getting a lesson from Paul Krugman about the ethics of commentary is almost as funny as Fallows’s apologizing on behalf of Harvard. Both these paragons of the commentariat, by the way, shamelessly accused me of racism three years ago when I drew an innocent parallel between President Obama and “Felix the Cat.” I don’t know of many more unethical tricks than to brand someone who criticizes the president a racist.
And, finally, a consolation prize for righteous indignation goes to Dylan Byers of Politico (“ridiculous, misleading, ethically questionable”).
Pretty good, right?
Well, all of this led to the guys wondering how the publisher, Tina Brown, was reacting to all of the heat. And then they admitted they had no idea who Tina Brown even was – just that she really hates Glenn!
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