Paul Krugman is on Fresh Air today. Everyone should listen

One thing that angers me just a little about Terry Gross is that she has Krugman on plugging his book and his ideas, but she has to punctuate the argument by telling us that Grover Nordquist will be on in November plugging his book.

Why do they placate the wingers like this? I guess, it is fair, in a sense. But if they want to have a debate between Krugman and Nordquist, let them both on at the same time and have a debate. If she wants to 'balance' her coverage by allowing Nordquist on to tell lies, then why does Nordquist get the last word?

Another thing that bugs me is that only the MOST PROMINENT liberals who have BESTSELLERS get to come on a plug their books. They're never on when they have a valuable opinion that needs to be aired. They have to have a bestselling product to hawk. But Nordquist has Regnery publish some bullshit little pamphlet of lies that won't sell more than 50,000 copies, and that will be bulk sells to think tanks which will have to give the book away to their members, or use them as door stops, and they give him a full hour? If Krugman and Franken only get to come on when they have best sellers, why don't the Republicans have to wait until they get an honest bestseller (no bulk sale daggers)?

And I should note, they did this with Franken. We were told over and over again that O'Reilly would be on after his book came out.

OK, maybe I'm being sensitive. But it does buy me.

By the way, yesterday Fresh Air had the author of the Pinochet Files, and she gave a guy from the CIA 15 minutes of free time to retort. Thank god, they let the author back on for the final word, but I think it was recorded at the same time as the first part of the interview and he didn't have an opportunity to address the CIA's specific claims (which, incidentally, that the CIA felt bad about what Pinochet did, to which I say, I don't care about the CIA's feelings -- I care about their actions).

at www.mediawhoresonline.com

She said they had forgotten to reserve the studio or something so he got cut about 10-15 minutes of the hour...Drat!

Thanks for the heads up...I'll listen...Did you hear Krugman on Russert? He was great but very, very depressing..Bush has simply ruined the economy and everything I think America stands for...