{"id":259,"date":"2002-03-01T03:45:35","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T10:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/sullivans-curious-obsession-with-krugman\/"},"modified":"2002-03-01T03:45:35","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T10:45:35","slug":"sullivans-curious-obsession-with-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/01\/sullivans-curious-obsession-with-krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sullivan&#8217;s curious obsession with Krugman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tis the subject of this piece by Jonathon Chait (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewrepublic.com\/doc.mhtml?i=express&#038;s=chait022802\">The New Republic Online: Sullivan v. <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sullivan first condemned Krugman January 18, then continued on for days, posting twelve items. After that massive output, he wrote, &#8220;No more Krugman, I promise.&#8221; Alas, he failed to keep the promise, mentioning Krugman in 22 more items before once again promising, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna lay off (unless I can&#8217;t help myself.).&#8221; Unsurprisingly, he couldn&#8217;t help himself and has since gone after Krugman in 17 subsequent items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The use of the numerical method fits this case neatly. I commented on the obession some days ago, both here and elsewhere because it was so blatant. Joshua Marshall had an &#8220;All Enron, All the Time&#8221; theme for a while himself, though not nearly as severe as Sullivan&#8217;s. I pointed this out to Marshall, and he sent me a civil reply and cleaned-up his act. Sullivan&#8217;s response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bennett.com\/archives\/000015.html#000015\">similar pointer<\/a> was to send no reply and continue on his merry way. I used to respect Sullivan, despite his quirky ways, but I have to wonder when his behavior is so crude in comparison with that of a man whose politics I don&#8217;t even agree with. Intelligence knows no ideology, apparently, nor does boorishness.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is the subject of this piece by Jonathon Chait (The New Republic Online: Sullivan v. The New York Times) Sullivan first condemned Krugman January 18, then continued on for days, posting twelve items. After that massive output, he wrote, &#8220;No more Krugman, I promise.&#8221; Alas, he failed to keep the promise, mentioning Krugman in 22 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/01\/sullivans-curious-obsession-with-krugman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sullivan&#8217;s curious obsession with Krugman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-4b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}