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To: JohnM who wrote (38964)	8/20/2002 2:48:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

John, Paul Krugman, um, erred, at several points in his column. 1. Krugman claimed that Bush was a sitting governer when he got the Ranger's $12 million 2. Krugman claimed the $12 million was a "present". It may have been a sweetheart deal but even Bush's critics acknowledge that he did real and successful work for the Rangers. Thus the money wasn't for nothing. Krugman would do better to fess up his errors. So far, he is just doing a lot of weaseling about them, as he did about Enron.

To: JohnM who wrote (38964)	8/20/2002 2:50:05 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Well, it was from NewsMax. I dont believe Krugman could make "mincemeat" of the FACT that he was seriously off on a number of important details. And while I agree that that sort of nepotism and "family favors" politics is despicable - if it were illegal most of the Rodham family would be in jail now... as would most of the Kennedys, the Jacksons, the Bush's, the Daley's... Now that would be almost as utopian as expecting Krugman or Raines to drop their political agendas and act like objective journalists.