President of Estonia goes ballistic on Paul Krugman

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves — the “Dean of the Balts” — is not happy about a blog post Paul Krugman put up today snarking on the country’s newfound status as the “poster child for austerity defenders”. The president unleashed on his Twitter account:

Let’s write about something we know nothing about & be smug, overbearing & patronizing: after all, they’re just wogs: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/estonian-rhapsdoy/

Guess a Nobel in trade means you can pontificate on fiscal matters & declare my country a “wasteland”. Must be a Princeton vs Columbia thing [Ilves went to Columbia for undergrad.]

But yes, what do we know? We’re just dumb & silly East Europeans. Unenlightened. Someday we too will understand. Nostra culpa.

Let’s sh*t on East Europeans: their English is bad, won’t respond & actually do what they’ve agreed to & reelect govts that are responsible.

No response yet from Krugman.

Mr. Krugman has a Nobel Prize in Economics, no doubt for such wonderfully intelligent statements as his recent apology for President Obama’s gaffe on the private sector,”…doing fine.”.  Mr. Krugman’s explanation was, “You know, that was an unfortunate line. The president bungled the line. The truth is, the private sector is doing better than the public sector which is not well enough.

“And actually, the real about this economy is the cutbacks of the public sector are what’s hurting recovery. By this point in Obama’s presidency, if we had normal public sector job growth we’d have about 800,000 more people — firefighters, school teachers, police officers. Instead, we have 600,000 fewer. So right there is like 1.4 million jobs that we should have had in the public sector. And, of course, those would translate into more private sector jobs, too. So that’s what he was trying to get at. And, of course, he screwed up the line.”

After all, what Barry was trying to say was,” I take care of my friends.”.

Also…

Bin Laden’s porn has been found

Just in case you were wondering how he passed the time during all those years he spent inside in Abottabad:

The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.

So many questions here. Bin Laden’s compound wasn’t hooked up to the internet and he apparently communicated with the outside world by saving files onto thumb drives and having couriers send e-mails and download new messages for him from a distant Internet cafe. Were those couriers also in charge of procuring bin Laden’s porn? Awkward.

Lets take a peek, shall we?

Just what I expected.

Doug, with additional material from John the River.