I've said relatively little about the Krugman payola controversy, but I caught a couple of minutes of Hannity and Colmes tonight (during commercials of the much more viewworthy "King of the Hill," even in reruns) in which they were talking to Bernie Goldberg. He made an excellent point. To paraphrase, "Why was Krugman talking up what a brilliant business Enron was running, at the same time that he admitted that they paid him fifty grand for doing essentially nothing?"

Great question.