The antidote for Krugman is, of course, Krugman Watch. Although the usual place for Krugman Watch is the National Review Online:
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There is plenty of people in the blogospher gleefully exposing Krugman as a charlatan:
>>Krugman: stupid, mentally ill, or a liar
Paul Krugman's column today in the New York Times has this line:
It's now clear that the Iraq war was the mother of all bait-and-switch operations. Mr. Bush and his officials portrayed the invasion of Iraq as an urgent response to an imminent threat, and used war fever to win the midterm election.
Compare this to Bush's last State of the Union address, just before the war started:
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option.
So Krugman is once again saying that Bush tried to sell a war with Saddam on the grounds that Saddam was an imminent threat, when Bush clear said the opposite. The time has come for the left wing of the blogosphere to come clean about Krugman. Is he simply stupid, unable to read the text of a speech? Is he mentally ill, living in a fantasy world where Bush says whatever Krugman believes he said? Or is Krugman a liar, who figures that if he repeats the same lie, again and again, in the Times, that he can get people to believe his lies?
UPDATE: There is a fourth possibility: Krugman is just stupendously lazy. A fellow leftist tells him at a Princeton cocktail party that Bush said imminent threat, and Krugman can't be bothered to actually check the speech. I am annoyed with myself for not noting that sooner, because, in twenty years in the academic racket, I have seen more than enough academics who were stupid, mentally ill, and liars, I have seen a lot more who were very, very lazy.<<
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Krugman much more worthy target than, say, Maureen Dowd, who is just a humor writer. And, I expect, far more entertaining than any of the Democrat Dwarves running for President. |
