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NYT's Paul Krugman Proves Again Why He is Always in the Running for AssHat of the year.
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| Paul Krugman – Two Time Winner of Diogenes' “AssHat of the Year” Award |
Hillary's 'Email Thing Doesn't Rise to the Level of a 'Scandal.'
Paul Krugman's Monday New York Times column hit all of the sweet spots that make liberals smile, defending both President Obama and Hillary Clinton while bashing President Bush and the current crop of Republican presidential candidates. And what of the Democrats? Well, Hillary's “email thing doesn’t rise to the level of a 'scandal.'” Meanwhile, “the modern GOP is basically anti-rational analysis; it’s at war not just with the welfare state but with the Enlightenment.”
Plus: Last week, after being annoyed that he was being treated by some as a partisan hack, despite his stellar “analysis and track record,” he insulted libertarian economist Stephen Moore on his nytimes.com blog.
After claiming Monday that none of Obama's alleged “Katrina” moments were disasters after all, and marking Obamacare as “a huge success,” he turned viciously on the tenure of President George W. Bush.
“Beyond that, Katrina was special in political terms because it revealed such a huge gap between image and reality. Ever since 9/11, former President George W. Bush had been posing as a strong, effective leader keeping America safe. He wasn’t. But as long as he was talking tough about terrorists, it was hard for the public to see what a lousy job he was doing. It took a domestic disaster, which made his administration’s cronyism and incompetence obvious to anyone with a TV set, to burst his bubble….”
On Hillary Clinton keeping sensitive government documents on her personal server while serving as Secretary of State, well, that doesn't even deserve the term “scandal.”
“I know, now I’m supposed to be evenhanded, and point out equivalent figures on the Democratic side. But there really aren’t any; in modern America, cults of personality built around undeserving politicians seem to be a Republican thing. True, some liberals were starry-eyed about Mr. Obama way back when, but the glitter faded fast, and what was left was a competent leader with some big achievements under his belt – most notably, an unprecedented drop in the number of Americans without health insurance. And Hillary Clinton is the subject of a sort of anti-cult of personality, whose most ordinary actions are portrayed as nefarious. (No, the email thing doesn’t rise to the level of a “scandal.”)….”
An August 28 blog post at nytimes.com found the esteemed-economist turned Democratic hack in an arrogant and defensive mood, calling the tech elite “stupid” for failing to see the badness radiating in waves off the Republican Party and its medieval mindset.
….In fact, policies that the tech elite support, like carbon taxes, are supported only by the left wing of the Democratic Party; the entire Republican Party is controlled by climate denialists, and anti-science types more broadly. And in general the modern GOP is basically anti-rational analysis; it’s at war not just with the welfare state but with the Enlightenment.
Source: http://suckersonparade.blogspot.com/2015/09/nyts-paul-krugman-proves-again-why-he.html
