The Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard?

Paul Krugman gets nasty!

Last hour on his blog, Krugman posted regrets that he did not get to meet with Rick Warren this morning on This Week. Or as he put it

So I was all ready to talk about Rick Warren on today’s panel, only to learn that he had cancelled out at the last minute. The show replaced him with pirates, plus an extended roundtable. But I think they should have done what the British show Have I Got News For You did when a guest failed to show: they replaced him with a tub of lard, addressed throughout the show as the Rt. Hon. Tub of Lard.

Way to go, Prof. Krugman!

And what is making Krugman so fiesty? Perhaps it is just that this doesn't appear to be a routine cancellation. Politico reports that

Pastor Rick Warren, after making apparently contradictory statements about his stance on a gay-marriage measure, canceled an Easter Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week” just “moments before the scheduled interview,” host George Stephanopoulos told viewers.

Stephanopoulos said Warren’s representatives said the best-selling evangelical author was “sick with exhaustion.” The host told viewers that he wished the pastor a speedy recovery.

Warren’s appearance would have given him the chance to clear up his claim last week on CNN’s “Larry King Live” that he “never once … gave an endorsement” to California’s Proposition 8, a successful November ballot measure that banned gay marriage in the nation’s largest state.

Here is the clip



No equivocation here. So no edorsement? Here it is



Happy Easter Pastor Rick!