KRUGMAN KO'S O'REILLY WITH CLASS

Watched the great Paul Krugman-Bill O'Reilly rumble last night. It was hysterically funny, mostly because Bilious was so pleased with himself. He didn't even know what a fool he appeared to be! When they'd cut for commercials, Bill would be fatuously watching the monitor with a self-satisfied smile on his face.

Krugman was interesting to watch. He nearly always had a little private smile as if he were watching aliens dancing on the ceiling and while he didn't get it, he couldn't help being a little amused. Sometimes, though, his eyes would be as wide and round as an innocent cherub handcuffed to the devil -- he'd almost appear to be physically leaning away from O'Really as if not quite sure of his physical safety. He just plain outclassed O'Really, and I loved the line, "This is not your show, you can't turn my mike off."

Tim Russert, by the way, just let it play...he was obviously getting a charge out of it.

Score: a knockout for Krugman.

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