Can Your Office Provide A List Of Your Critics To Help Us Flesh Out Our Hit Piece?

Baiting The Left 16 Comments

Mr. Klaus declined to be interviewed for this article. His office called a list of proposed questions “peculiar.”

Some days I’m tempted to subscribe to the New York Times just so I can cancel my subscription. But the risk that their phones might be cut off in the intervening minutes keeps me from following through.
Update – Vaclav Klaus, on global warming.

16 Replies to “Can Your Office Provide A List Of Your Critics To Help Us Flesh Out Our Hit Piece?”

  1. Lots hope he rocks & rolls in his new job . . . there is just so much hypocrisy in the Euro zone he might have trouble picking the fattest, most bloated targets to side swipe.
    Do ya think he’ll invite Al Gore for a meeting ?
    If he does, any bets on if The Goreacle will show up ?

  4. Heaven forbid the Czech Republic should act..er ..well..”Republican”!?!
    Ewwww, not this “free markets” and “speaking political truths” dogma again! We though hegemonic centralized Euro-collectivism had made honesty from power, independent critical thinking and principled dissent things of the past.
    Just when you thought global collectivist state corporatism was a settled matter we get a stinky old free thinker in the bosom of European martinet centralism talking about laissez faire capitalism and nation state independent sovereignty.
    Can’t have that! To the presses! Demonize this liberal democrat heretic!

  5. Anything that kicks the EU in the rear is a good thing.
    Talk about bloated, unresponsive, arrogant bureaucracy.
    Should be fun to watch until they haul him off to prison for being rude.

  6. Revnant: not a chance of that! The world needs our coal for important things like making iron and steel.
    Let Santa give them something useless like carbon offset credits (ironically printed on a carbon product) instead.

  7. I loved the following part of the article:
    “An economist by training and a free marketeer by ideology…”
    Here’s a hint to the ass-hat at the NYT who wrote this “article”: if you’re an economist and your training actually took, you will always be a ‘free marketeer'(is that anything like a Three Musketeer?).
    Economists who have any other ‘ideological stance’ are, to the extent they actually believe that alternate stance, failures.  The free market isn’t an ideology, it’s a social structure for creating wealth, and the most successful one in the history of the planet.
    Or perhaps you could show me the alternate social structure that produced computers, a global electronic civilisation, supertankers, satellites, automobiles, trucks, modern roads, modern medicine, etc. ad nauseam.
    Honest to God, I’m truly beginning to believe J-schools should be outlawed — apparently, they enforce an ideology of dumbness on their hapless (and increasingly witless) students.
    Garth

  10. My favourite quote from the article, and I’m sure the commies at NYT didn’t even notice the irony of first stating that he transformed Czechoslovakia into a successful economy and then stating his ideas about governance are out of step with the rest of Europe…which ideas…being successful? Too funny.
    As a former finance minister and prime minister, he is credited with presiding over the peaceful 1993 split of Czechoslovakia into two states and helping to transform the Czech Republic into one of the former Soviet bloc’s most successful economies.
    But his ideas about governance are out of step with many of the European Union nations that his country will lead starting Jan. 1.

  11. Gus:
    Yup
    C_Miner : Your right of course. How crude of me to tune out the inner green me in. Good joke by the way (O:}

  12. I can’t believe they actually used the opinion of the secret police who were investigating him as a freedom fighter as an attack on him.
    Can you imagine if the NYT wrote a piece about Ann Frank that included a quote from the Gestapo who captured her?

  13. Cato put out his original speech on their monthly CD a couple of years ago, I’ve got it on my MP3 player and listen to it every month or so.

  15. Garth,
    I’m with you on the j-school ban. I’d like to one-up you and have all the fired prof’s beaten on their way to the soup kitchen. They certainly deserve it.

  16. The Czech nation should receive the Nobel Peace Prize. They are a naturally contrarian people. They stood up to the Nazis when no one else in the world would dare to do so; they pioneered in the laudable practice of defenestrating politicians, a tradition that so greatly needs to be emulated throughout the world; they were in the forefront of the Protestant Reformation against a corrupt Church. Now they have produced a voice of sanity in the Bedlam of global warming hysteria. The whole country should be one of those UN world heritage sites.

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