{"id":4051,"date":"2013-03-06T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2013-03-06T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:13:36","slug":"only-jerks-use-ad-hominems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Classic Krugman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?embedCode=c0dzR4OToKte6ct2q9xI5X1MN8-EmrFT&#038;playerBrandingId=8a7a9c84ac2f4e8398ebe50c07eb2f9d&#038;width=639&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=c0dzR4OToKte6ct2q9xI5X1MN8-EmrFT&#038;height=360&#038;thruParam_bloomberg-ui[popOutButtonVisible]=FALSE\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloom.bg\/10ecfvt\">Check out this video on Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes something like this.\u00c2\u00a0 In the remark shown on the screen, Paul Krugman cautioned that he is <strong>not<\/strong> calling someone a name (via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cAy4zULKFDU\">Monty Python reference<\/a> lost on the speaker), but rather questioning the evidence for his view.\u00c2\u00a0 The stunningly clueless commentator remarks that this is &#8220;classic Krugman&#8221; for &#8220;going after a person,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0which is greeted with all sorts of agreement from the assembled panel brainless commentators.\u00c2\u00a0 She then\u00c2\u00a0refers to\u00c2\u00a0Niall Ferguson, who in his turn says Paul Krugman uses ad hominem arguments because he\u00c2\u00a0must have been abused as a child.\u00c2\u00a0 That, of course, is an actual ad hominem;\u00c2\u00a0Krugman&#8217;s is not.\u00c2\u00a0 You just cannot be this dumb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video on Bloomberg. The story goes something like this.\u00c2\u00a0 In the remark shown on the screen, Paul Krugman cautioned that he is not calling someone a name (via a Monty Python reference lost on the speaker), but rather questioning the evidence for his view.\u00c2\u00a0 The stunningly clueless commentator remarks that this is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classic Krugman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,204],"tags":[191,1601,194,1602,1604],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-krugman","category-specious-allegations-of-fallacy","tag-ad-hominem-arguments","tag-niall-ferguson","tag-paul-krugman","tag-sara-eisen","tag-your-mother-was-a-hamster-and-your-father-smelled-of-elderberries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}