Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 6:33 PM

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.
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