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10/31/2003 Archived Entry: "A Message From Donald Luskin"
A Message From Donald Luskin
Editor's note: Blah3.com has agreed to donate space for Donald Luskin to refute recent charges on various blogs that he is a stalker. Mr. Luskin's statement follows:
Dear Internet Readers,
Recent comments on various web sites and 'blogs' call into question my dogged pursuit of economist Paul Krugman, suggesting that I am somehow stalking the evil New York Times columnist.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It is entirely possible for a person to post to their 'blog' about an evil, bearded economist who has received all the accolades that person has ever wanted in their lives, stealing the glory from that person and their precise financial theories, forcing them to sit in a darkened room, mulling the fact that this so-called economist is going on television and publishing a best-selling book, getting all the attention that should be mine, mine!! The bastard! The conniving, attention-grabbing sonovabitch!! He'll never get away with it!!!
Oh. Where was I?
Oh, yes. It's possible to post to one's blog, repeating the name of the evil economist like a mantra of all that is wrong in the world, hundreds of times, over and over, as if repeating the name over and over and over will somehow erase him from this miserable planet and allow the sun to move from behind the evil cloud that obscures it, letting some of us get on television and maybe do book tours and get attention that is rightfully ours. I've earned it! It's mine, and that bastard is taking it away from me!! How dare he???
Oh... sorry. Let me begin again.
Sure, I've published Krugman's tour dates and urged my readership to meet him at those dates with pies to throw in his face. Even though I've actually published articles that as much as said I was stalking him, and others - even those of my own political persuasion - have also called me a stalker, it does not mean that I'm really stalking my nemesis, the one who causes me to lose sleep and not be able to concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds at a time, distracting me to the point of mental blankness, spinningdown, down, into a vortex of obsession, having to resort to desperate measures to rid myself of the shadow which falls over me every waking moment of my existence. Leave me be, Krugman!! Get out of my life, damn you!!!
Ahem... excuse me. I'll finish now.
Just because it's been widely circulated that I'm stalking Paul Krugman, and it's been stated in my columns and other conservatives have called my recent threat of legal action 'embarrassing' and that I 'should have known better,' it doesn't mean that I'm actually doing it.
Look. If George W. Bush can refer to his miserable failure in Iraq as a success, if Condoleezza Rice can say with a straight face that the Bush administration was never warned about the Al-Qaeda threat prior to 9/11, then I can say, unequivocally and with utmost confidence, that I am not stalking Paul Krugman.
Thank goodness for up-is-downism.
Burning with jealousy and envy,
Donald Luskin
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Editor's note: This is satire. Everybody calm down. Buying 'The Great Unraveling' from the above link is Blah3's contribution to the Eschaton Legal Defense Fund, should it be needed. Happy Halloween!
Replies: 10 people speak up
I like the "evil, bearded" part!
Posted by Sam @ 10/31/2003 01:06 PM NY
I suspect that by now the Atrios Volunteer Legal Team is large enough to claim nationhood status...
But buy the book thru the link anyway! :-)
Posted by Melic @ 10/31/2003 01:08 PM NY
I'll sue! I'll sue! You're really Paul Krugman, aren;t you? Aren't you?
Posted by Donald Luskin @ 10/31/2003 01:18 PM NY
I think Paul Krugman might be Osama bin Laden......ever seen them in the same room together? I didn't think so.
Posted by Donald Luskin @ 10/31/2003 01:33 PM NY
Tell Krugman to make the damn bats go away!
Bats! Bats! All over me! Aaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhh!
Posted by Donald Luskin @ 10/31/2003 01:46 PM NY
Nice work, Blah. I like "up-is-downism."
Posted by Dissento @ 10/31/2003 02:58 PM NY
Perhaps if Mr. Luskin would have stayed @ Yale for more than a year, he might be able to hold Krugman's nutsack.
Posted by blunted @ 10/31/2003 08:32 PM NY
I AM Atrios!
Posted by Vicki @ 11/01/2003 01:23 AM NY
Damn that Luskin! He escaped the DHS after my most recent encounter with him. Everytime I run into my stalker friends, he's there causing a ruckus. When will the madness end?
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 11/01/2003 12:29 PM NY
Damn that Luskin! He's the worst kind of stalker, blaming his victim for the crime. The rest of us blame society and the Catholic church, but Luskin's different. And damn him! I keep running into him! Ran into him again the other day at a coffee shop...
Posted by MercuryX23 @ 11/01/2003 12:32 PM NY
