AN EMAIL NAILS IT

“You wrote, ‘Krugman and Noonan and Kristol cannot now be taken fully seriously whenever they write about Enron.’ What irritates me about these people–pundits, journalists, whores, whatever you want to call them–is not necessarily that they will not be trustworthy when writing about Enron specifically, but that I will begin to wonder whenever they or someone else starts extolling the virtues of other companies. I wonder if they realize it when they are writing in disgust about “bought and paid for” politicians who took a couple of thousand dollars for their million dollar campaign chest that we look at them and think the same thing, and that their words now become as meaningless to us as politicians’ do to them?”