Jon Stewart Fires Back At Paul Krugman: 'If Somebody Is Ruining Their Brand' With The Trillion Dollar Coin, It's You
From businessinsider.com
Daily Show host Jon Stewart fired back last night at economist Paul Krugman over the idea of minting a trillion-dollar coin to work around the debt ceiling. It continued a riff that was forged over the weekend when Krugman slammed Stewart for being "lazy" in satirizing the idea. Stewart mocked Krugman as "the only creature more noble than a freshly felched unicorn" and "the rare gray-bearded urban laureate." He took issue with Krugman calling him "lazy" in a blog post over the weekend, joking that he was "banging it out four days a week, 22 minutes a day!" Stewart then played a clip of Krugman saying Stewart was ...
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