Cone gets his feelings hurt by a Glenn Reynolds put down

It's all over Cone's compulsive-obsessive habit of nattering nabobbing on one of his favorite subjects: Doom and Gloom Economics.


Here's the "offending" passage:

"If They Could Do Math, They Wouldn't Have Been Journalism Majors"

... of which you can replace the words "Journalism Majors" with "arrogant egotistic local blogger/pseudo expert-on-everything", to be more accurate.

Personally, I liked this part of the comment better, Glenn:


".....but I guess I have tuned out a lot of the media econo-doomsaying because they've been predicting massive economic collapse for pretty much my entire sensate life and so far it hasn't come. Plus, at the moment they're playing their usual pre-election gloom-and-doom game in the hopes of helping the Democrats.

Which doesn't mean that the economy is necessarily doing better than they say, since their bias is exceeded only by their laziness and ignorance. As I noted some years ago about their Iraq reporting, the fact that they're transparently playing up bogus bad news doesn't mean that there isn't genuine bad news that they're not reporting, because reporting that would require knowledge and effort."

Cone doesn't like it when his blogging betters put people like him down. He knows that he can't "ban" them or marginalize them the way he likes to do with local folks. See his reply to Fred Gregory as proof of that.