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2009-07-13 16:53:48

Paul Krugman Nobel Prize News Conference
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Just one more item featuring P. Krugman.

In this video, “The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman” walks onto the stage WEARING A BACK-PACK !! Your heard me right – a back-pack. Just watch it if you don’t believe me.

No doubt, he’s attempting to portray himself as just a humble ‘I’m one of you guys’ type person.

People eat it up, though.

This outlandish scene comes at the beginning of this long video so you can just watch his entrance and then forget about it, although it’s worth continuing for a couple of more minutes as “The New York Times columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman” is introduced. He looks like he’s lost or thinking to himself: “What am I doing here?”

Good question