Daily Howler - May 30, 2005

THE BOTTOM OF THE PILE! The New York Times printed Krugman’s reply. But first, they pimped pure propaganda

MONDAY, MAY 30, 2005

FRIST’S LATEST TRANSPLANT: Uh-oh! The surgeon was transplanting himself once again, this time with a NASCAR backdrop. Bill Frist, heroic transplant surgeon, was at the Coca-Cola 600 the weekend, telling the Post’s Mike Allen why—well, we’ll let you enjoy it yourself:

ALLEN (5/30/05): [Frist] drew an analogy to surgery. "You have a team of about eight to nine people, working on a car, preparing to race tonight—everything from tires to suspension to engine to appropriate panel size to weight, all coming together almost like a symphony in preparation for a run of 600 miles tonight," he said. "So from a technical aspect, my years as a surgeon who has worked with artificial hearts and lasers and mechanical devices is sort of an innate identification."

Of course! Being a surgeon is very much like being a NASCAR driver! Plainly, Frist thinks Allen’s IQ is 11.