Word: gigot
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Summers quickly became a frequent whipping post for right-leaning writers like the Wall Street Journal’s Paul A. Gigot, who was perhaps Summers’ most caustic critic. While his columns mostly blasted Summers’ policy stances, Gigot also skewered Summers for his perceived arrogance. “Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity,” Gigot wrote...
...years later, Gigot lambasted Summers for failing to anticipate the currency crisis that rocked East Asian economies. “Mr. Summers...helped to kill an all-Asia rescue that might have been an early firebreak,” Gigot wrote. “But this would have prevented Mr. Summers from playing the role of a modern ‘Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ in Asia...though this is unfair to MacArthur, who had a smaller...
Asked by The Crimson last month about the origin of his vendetta against Summers, Gigot responded: “You’re making this seem like it’s personal, and it’s not...I think there’s probably thousands of people who would say that my descriptions are merely statements of fact...
...fall of 2001, when Gigot became chair of the Journal’s editorial page, he seemed to come around to join the Summers camp. Gigot’s change-of-tune foreshadowed a broader rapprochement between Summers and the right...
...about his ascent to the top of the Treasury reported that Summers, who had “made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact.” The story then quoted a famous column by Wall Street Journal commentator Paul Gigot, in which he wrote that “Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity...