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4:38 pm - 01/13/2013

Paul Krugman chastises Jon Stewart for mocking the platinum coin

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Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman slammed Jon Stewart for his segment on the platinum coin, saying that “Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs.”

In an ABC News web exclusive, Krugman said: “It is a funny thing. But you want to be funny from a point of view of understanding what the issues are. There’s a reason we’ve gotten to this place.” He added: “Obviously neither he nor his staff did even five minutes of looking at the financial blogs which have been talking about this. Lots of people think it’s a bad idea. Lots of people think it’s a good idea. But it’s not just, ‘Oh, those idiots.’
 
(OP's Note: Vid won't embed, here's a link)

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-web-extra-paul-krugman-18202593

Krugman was answering a question about a recent blog post where he called Jon Stewart “lazy” for mocking the coin idea. “In this case, however, it’s obvious that nobody at TDS spent even a few minutes researching the topic. It was just yuk-yuk-yuk they’re talking about a trillion-dollar con hahaha,” Krugman wrote. “Hey, if we want this kind of intellectual laziness, we can just tune in to Fox.”

In the segment in question, from Thursday, Stewart says: “I’m not an economist, but if we’re just going to make shit up, I’d say go big or go home. How about a $20 trillion coin



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if_musicbe 13th-Jan-2013 10:32 pm (UTC)
Okay no, wasn't that "rape joke" about Todd Akins getting legitimately raped by Claire M in the polls, as a play on words regarding his odious comments regarding the legitimacy of rape. He didn't just make a rape joke out of nowhere.
kalie_m 13th-Jan-2013 10:45 pm (UTC)
I don't fucking care if he was making a play on words or not. He still made a rape joke and it's still disgusting.
if_musicbe 13th-Jan-2013 11:17 pm (UTC)
Oh dear lord. rme.
akillarian 13th-Jan-2013 11:26 pm (UTC)
I agree. I don't understand why so many people using serious words such as rape when they are joking about another matter. There are dozens other words that they can use instead.
agatharuncible 14th-Jan-2013 04:02 am (UTC)
because he's using Todd Akin's words (Todd Akin was one of the guys who made seriously gross comments about rape) to make fun of Todd Akin's views, not to make fun of rape. quite the opposite, in fact.

I have mixed feelings about it because it was unnecessary, but I feel like the context makes it a bit different.

Edited at 2013-01-14 04:04 am (UTC)
akillarian 14th-Jan-2013 09:07 am (UTC)
It's not much better but I see why you would want me to understand why he chosed that word in that sentence.

I wish someone would tell him that it was not clever as he intented. I wish people who never got sexual harrassed would stop using word such as rape as part of a joke.
agatharuncible 14th-Jan-2013 09:04 pm (UTC)
yeah, I agree that it was a really unfortunate joke to make since it's a sensitive subject altogether... but otoh, I get why he said that -- he was turning Aiken's phrasing against him. to me the general meaning was "hey Todd, guess what, the very people hurt by your line of thinking just won against you". something that lots of people commented on was the fact that not only did he lose, but he lost to a woman (the fact that many Republicans like him managed to alienate pretty big chunks of voters by saying stuff like that was big point in a lot of commentary during/after the elections). but yeah, it was really unfortunate, and while I don't feel strongly about it I can completely understand why other people wouldn't feel the same way, regardless of the spirit behind the joke. other ontders have pointed out in this post that other comedians handled it more gracefully.
stephantasm 14th-Jan-2013 12:28 am (UTC)
the fact that there are people acting like this "play on words" isn't disgusting... it's not clever or funny
browniecakemix 13th-Jan-2013 11:55 pm (UTC)
And Rachel Maddow was able to riff successfully on the exact same comment without resorting to such a blatant rape joke. Not only was it crass and gross, it was also lazy.
maryaminx 14th-Jan-2013 12:00 am (UTC)
I can't remember exactly what Rachel said, but saying she "legitimately" beat him was 1. funny, and 2. not a rape joke.
browniecakemix 14th-Jan-2013 03:01 am (UTC)
No, it's not. But saying she "legitimately raped" him, as Stewart did, was a rape joke--unlike saying, as Maddow did, that "I guess the female body had a way to 'shut that whole thing down' after all!"
maryaminx 14th-Jan-2013 03:02 am (UTC)
I agree with you?
browniecakemix 14th-Jan-2013 03:18 am (UTC)
Oh, sry, I thought you were trying to tell me that was what Jon said lol.
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