There’s a case of some very sour grapes at the Media Research Center over Paul Krugman being awarded the Nobel Prize in economics.
In an Oct. 13 NewsBusters post, Mark Finkelstein took great pleasure in the folks at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” treating the award as a joke, then mocked Andrea Mitchell for trying to set people straight:
Can Mitchell seriously believe this was other than a supremely political pick by the lefty Nobel Committee? Does Andrea honestly imagine Krugman was awarded the prize for his academic work and not for his Republican-bashing and promotion of the road to collectivism on the pages of the Gray Lady? Don’t make us laugh!
Finkelstein then sneers: “According to the official Nobel announcement, Krugman was awarded the prize for “his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.” Right.”
Then, in an Oct. 13 appearance on Fox News’ “Your World,” the MRC Business & Media Institute’s Dan Gainor was in a similar sneering mood, eager to delegitimize the award because it isn’t given to people Gainor likes. From an Oct. 13 NewsBusters post by Nathan Burchfiel (the video of Gainor’s appearance wasn’t functional at the time of this writing):
“They’ve given Al Gore, they’ve given Jimmy Carter, they’ve given the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” Gainor told Fox News Channel’s “Your World” host Neil Cavuto Oct. 13. “The last three literary awards have gone to left and lefter writers and according to this paper called The New York Times there’s a lot of critics who are questioning whether the committee is actually making decisions based on reasons other than best literary reasons.”
Ouch. They’ll get over it eventually. Then again, Tim Graham still hasn’t gotten over that macaca thing…