Comments on: Early Morning Swim: Lawrence O’Donnell and Eric Burns of Media Matters Discuss Fox News’ Agenda

By: InspectorDim

InspectorDim — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:17:23 +0000

“Anchorman Shepard Smith rarely puts the White House in a negative light,” said O’Reilly, adding, “People like Greta, Bret Baier, Megyn Kelly, Martha MacCallum all give the White House a fair shot every day.”

Did Bill O’Reilly just very subtly say that Shepard Smith was a liberal?

By: stritz44

stritz44 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:54:04 +0000

Funny, I seem to recall that I have watched every Pres Obama prime time news conferences on Fox News…

By: Knut

Knut — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:15:58 +0000

If you were an academic economist you would know Williamson’s work, original and enlightening, but written with a heavy-handedness that makes the original German seem light by comparison. I never read more awkward prose by a professional economist in my life. As to the substance, he deserves it. With respect to the other winner, most professional economists would be as surprised as I am. I have actually written on the topic she got the prize for, and was cited by the Nobel Committee in its award a couple of years ago (much to my amazement). I think she might have given the Commencement address at my university a few years back, but for the life of me, she is an unknown.

What this comes down to is that Provosts and Deans are going to start taking a hard look at the salaries they are paying high-tech mathematical economists whose work compares unfavorably with the writings of early eighteenth-century scholastic theologians. Smart people doing absolutely second-rate self-referential work. I see this played out in seminars all the time. And if someone were to ask me what the great achievements are of the top economists in my department, I would be at a loss to tell them. A lot of their recognition comes from being the tallest person in a room of midgets.

By: OldFatGuy

OldFatGuy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:28:50 +0000

See 61 above.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:27:30 +0000

Anybody in their jammies??

Planning to buy a new pair when I get my check from George Soros.

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:20:45 +0000

Thanks, should be fun.

By: Ruth Calvo

Ruth Calvo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:20:34 +0000

Who just said no other would ‘self emulate’ the way the health industries do,ROTGLMAO

By: Cellar47

Cellar47 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:19:49 +0000

Good Morning All, and -- TA-DAH!!!!!

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:19:33 +0000

My knowledge of economics is narrow, and decidedly nonacademic. I don’t know anything about the people who won the economics Nobel.

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:18:31 +0000

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