Nicky Cheese

Consider her Michael Moore 2.0. Yes, Naomi Klein is the new face of anti-free market intellectual dishonesty.

Johan Norberg, Cato fellow and author of the paper The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics, briefly debunks Klein’s major thesis.

For more evidence of Klein’s exaggerations, distortions and misrepresentations, check out the whole paper (linked above).

Although it’s quite difficult to identify what she stands for – her first book, the populist No Logo, rallied against the ubiquity of advertising, and her latest, The Shock Doctrine, maligns Milton Friedman and free-market economics by association (yes, oddly enough, by association) – assuming she has some, I’m fairly certain I loathe the ideals this woman espouses.

Ordinarily, I’d dismiss her as yet another drop in the misanthropic, anti-consumerist, socialist well, but she’s a popular misanthropic, anti-consumerist socialist. Really popular. According to wikipedia:

Klein ranked 11th in an internet poll ^[1][2][3] of the top global intellectuals of 2005, a list of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals compiled by Prospect magazine^[4] in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. She was the highest ranked woman on the list.

Plus, all my lefty friends cite her as an authority source.

Check out this video:

Sounds like another name to add to the list of modern-day Ellsworth Tooheys.

Expect more on this evil and contemptuous soul…