World: President of Estonia goes ballistic on Paul Krugman – Foreign Policy Blog

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves — the “Dean of the Balts” — is not happy about a blog post Paul Krugman put up today snarking on the country’s newfound status as the “poster child for austerity defenders”. The president unleashed on his Twitter account:

“Let’s write about something we know nothing about & be smug, overbearing & patronizing: after all, they’re just wogs:http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/estonian-rhapsdoy/

Guess a Nobel in trade means you can pontificate on fiscal matters & declare my country a “wasteland”. Must be a Princeton vs Columbia thing [Ilves went to Columbia for undergrad.]

But yes, what do we know? We’re just dumb & silly East Europeans. Unenlightened. Someday we too will understand. Nostra culpa.

Let’s sh*t on East Europeans: their English is bad, won’t respond & actually do what they’ve agreed to & reelect govts that are responsible.”

No response yet from Krugman.

Source: Foreign Policy Blog