Epic Takedown (and a Warning)

I don't know if it's still called "fisking" but this one is a must read.  U of Chicago economist John Cochrane takes on the NY Times's editorialists and exposes them as the daft hacks that they are.  It's brilliant.  Alas, Cochrane has a vastly smaller platform and the NY Times's nonsense, as Churchill put it, is halfway around the world before Cochrane can even put on his pants.  At least the world we live in is trending where something like Cochrane's blog is making great strides in influence and has massive potential for growth in influence, and the NYT's influence is waning and has little hope of regaining it's ongoing losses of influence.

It's long, but every bite is delicious.  Except the last bit...

It is a mistake to dismiss this clear editorial. This isn't the Village voice, or the Berkeley Free Press. This is the New York Times. This is how a wide swath of our fellow citizens, and majority of our fellow voters, see the world.   This is the agenda. They could not have been clearer if they had said "first we annex Austria and move against Czechoslovakia. Then we invade Poland and swing North and West." Heed them.