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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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From: TimF3/3/2006 7:06:01 PM
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...If we look at contributions per year — which is the fair, apples-versus-apples way to look at this, just as it would be the fair way to look at Krugman’s salary — we see that the average contribution of Abramoff’s seven clients to Democrats rose from $11,908 per year to $25,691 per year — an increase of 115 percent.

To be fair, which is something Krugman never seems to be, the seven tribes’ contributions to Republicans rose even more when measured this way. But that’s okay, because conservatives have never told the lie that the Abramoff scandal doesn’t touch Republicans. It’s liberals who are telling the lie that the scandal doesn’t touch Democrats. But clearly it does — big time. Unless you try to hide it with a lame-brained math error like the one used by the Prospect’s reporter Greg Sargent.

Perhaps we can forgive a mere reporter like Sargent for confusing an increase of 115 percent with a drop of 9 percent. But we’d like to think that Krugman, an economics professor, would have checked the numbers before reproducing Sargent’s fallacious claim in the pages of America’s “newspaper of record.” But no. It took a blogger — Pat Curley, of Brainster’s Blog — to break this story. Krugman was too obsessed with proving, as he wrote in the same column, that “There’s nothing bipartisan about this tale, which is all about the use and abuse of Republican connections.” ...

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