Paul Krugman's Advice for Dealing with Joe Lieberman

From Krugman's op-ed in the New York Times on the 17th…

"A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman…"

You know, I was thinking the exact same thing. What we need is a long length of tightly woven–

"…in effigy."

Um, yeah. That's what I meant. In effigy. Of course, I meant in effigy. What do you think I am, some sort of crazy reactionary? I mean, you'd have to be an idiot to think that Krugman was actually advocating stringing up and killing a sitting U.S. senator.

I mean, nobody actually thought that, right?

Management wants me to make it clear that in my last column I wasn't endorsing inappropriate threats against Mr. Lieberman.

Well, the people who work for New York Times, obviously. I meant nobody wasn't demonstrably idiotic.

(via Andrew Sullivan)

Tags: Health Care, Joe Lieberman, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Senate