Matalin to Krugman: ‘You’re Hardly Credible on Calling Someone Else a Liar’
By Katrina Trinko
October 7, 2012 1:31 P.M.
In the roundtable discussion on This Week, Peggy Noonan’s analysis of last week’s debate lead to a heated exchange between Paul Krugman and Mary Matalin.
“We will look back on it as a historic moment in this election,” Noonan said of the debate. “It upended things. This is what it it upended: Barack Obama was supposed to be the sort of moderate, centrist fellow who looked at Mitt Romney, this extreme strange fellow. By the time that debate was over, Mitt Romney seemed a completely moderate, centrist figure who showed up as mitt Romney the governor, not as Mitt Romney the candidate.”
“Except that everything he used to prove his centrism wasn’t true,” retorted Krugman.
When Noonan called that criticism “unjust,” Krugman responded, “When you say my plan covers pre-existing conditions when it doesn’t, and when your own campaign has admitted in the past that it doesn’t, what do you say? That’s amazing.”
At that point, Matalin told Krugman, “You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare from the efficiency of Medicare administration to calling it a voucher plan, so you’re hardly credible on calling someone else a liar.”
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t errier
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Krugman has become the Chris Matthews of this campaign season. He will only accept his own assumptions of how Romney's proposals will work and then concludes that Romney lied.
- vonryansexpress
It was a deserved and overdue rebuke of the filibustering Krugman.
Mary Matalin handled "Dr. Professor" Krugman like a Chuck Connors TV show--she BRANDED him as a liar & tore off his little buttons.
- Bob Harper
Hear, hear! It's about time someone called Krugman the little guttersnipe he is, Nobel Prize or no.
- Douglas J. Bender
"Little guttersnipe". I like that. I think I shall look up the meaning of "guttersnipe".
- ACYITeacher
I've often wondered why more conservative commentators don't call out liberals for their lies, distortions, etc. Good for Mary Matalin! It's long overdue.
- RobL_v2
Agree, conservatives tend to be collegial where liberals are just rabid.
No need to be collegial when dealing with a rabid dog, you just shoot it.
Metaphorically speaking you 'shoot' a rabid liberal by giving them a dose of the truth. Newt Gingrich excels at it and that's why we find him so refreshing.
Conservatives must learn to stop giving the libs and their lies, half truths and distortions a free pass.
- jrterrier
The difference with Matalin is that she lives with Carville so she knows the animal she's dealing with.
- bandmom
Oh they all know the animals on the left. They just don't have the cojones to take them on, wanting to be liked and all.
- John Tagliaferro
You need to look to the libertarians for that sort of thing.
- Tony Costine
I liked how Carville looked at Mary then looked down real quick. He knew what was comin' and he knew he didn't want to get any on him--he still had to ride home with her after all.
I despise Krugman. He took a lot of money from Enron to assure people they were a solid business. He should be in jail alongside the other confidence men and grifters.
- Bob Harper
Indeed. James Taranto always prefaces Krugman's name with the words 'former Enron adviser'. It's the perfect introduction and should be used universally.
- Fl Ms
It always reaches a point where a liberal becomes a legend in his own mind. Once you reach this, as clearly Krugman has, everything you say must be believed as truth. Kinda like Obama.
- Hah Bumbug
I believe, based on evidence, that the kind of person who attended elitist private college (and a few elitist public colleges) lied to gain admission. Thus, it is no surprise if they continue to lie, out of force of habit, after graduation.
I have looked at the Wikipedia biographies for Krugman and Matalin. I believe Matalin.
- denroy3
Good for Mary, she lives with Cueball, so she can handle herself.
- r212
Mary was able to handle herself long before that. I met her when we both worked at the RNC under Bush 41. She can gut your argument before you even know she's in the room. I dearly wish she were around more.
- chuckcurrie
That was totally awesome, dude. And, well deserved.
Cheers
- jlmoon
He did plenty of homework, he just studied for the wrong test.....
- John Tagliaferro
One odd thing about the Keynesians like Krugman. Keynes was not as bad as them. FDR, Hitler and Mussolini were Keynesian before it had a nickname, yet Keynes cautioned the Western powers to knock it off in the 1940s just before his death.
- Ed
Krugman's profession, including himself, severely fool the people by omission.
http://www.showrealhist.com/yT...
Standard Operating Procedure is bent over a barrel on Wall St.
- Hawkeye52
Krugman, Obama, Gore: Nobel Prize is now a participation trophy from little kids soccer.
As for Krugman, in honor of James Bond's 50th Anniversary, will someone get him a white cat!
- kochrepellent
"No LIps" Matalin has outlived whatever usefulness she may once have had.
- Iconoclastic Tim
Thank you for that utterly worthless contribution to the thread
- kochrepellent
You think there is anything in this thread that amounts to more than spit on the sidewalk?
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Krugman wouldn't be the smartest guy in the game room at my local Chuck E. Cheese!
- Rasputin
- Just like Obama, Krugman is the "smartest man in the room" only when he alone with Biden.
But hey, he won a Nobel & writes for the NYTimes - to a Lefty, that means he just has to be smart (forget Obama, Arafat won a Nobel, proving that "smart" has nothing to do with it). -
Krugman won his Nobel in 2008, ostensibly for his work 25 years earlier on international macro-economics. It is very easy to posit that his Nobel was really for his years as a liberal (self-identified 'social-democrat') columnist at the Times.
As a personal aside (admittedly ad hominem), I've encountered the little dwarf quite a few times on the Princeton sidewalks and he just exudes insufferability. I can just imagine what he is like in a lecture hall - that is, if he actually teaches..
- 123MarkW
Krugman has been a partisan hack for 20years. He even go so far as to change his opinion whenever the White House changes hands. A few years ago, deficits were evil. Now they are the cats meow.
- Nordog6561
Krugman is nothing but a partisan hack and a troll. What does that make his defenders?
- BD57
Well, that's your opinion - and opinions can't be "false" ... just ill-informed.
Which yours is.
- J. D. Brooks
Really BD? Go back and read Costline's post and see what your esteemed economics guru let happen to thousands of employees of Enron while he was advising them.
Does anyone but me wonder why his tenure at Enron is never brought up by the MSM? If Krugman had an R after his name they would introduce him as Paul Krugman Criminal of Enron and they would laugh their arse's off at the Nobel Prize :>)
- John Tagliaferro
In a free market, Enrons are a self correcting problem. In a Keynesian 'market' they are an easily predictable outcome.
- SaguaroJack49
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Your bile is laughable, Trout. Krugman was as much a part of that corruption as anybody. Lay supported Dems as well as Pubs, and Bush, unlike Bill Clinton, did not get him or Scooter Libby off the hook when they were found culpable.
- SaguaroJack49
So you're saying what? That Romney lies but Obama doesn't? That Romney sometimes errs when he speaks but Obama does not?
Get serious. You can like Obama if you please, but let's not pretend he doesn't do what every politician, indeed 'most every public figure, does.
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