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Did Paul Krugman Just Write a Column About Himself?

Posted by B. Daniel Blatt at 6:06 pm - November 9, 2009.
Filed under: Hysteria on the Left,Leftist Nutjobs,Mean-spirited leftists,Media Bias

The title of his latest is Paranoia Strikes Deep.

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  1. This guy has a Nobel Prize in Economics. If that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I don’t know what will…

    Comment by Tim — November 9, 2009 @ 6:31 pm - November 9, 2009

  2. From Wikipedia…

    In September, 2003, Krugman published a collection of his columns under the title, The Great Unraveling. Taken as a whole, it was a scathing attack on the George W. Bush administration’s economic and foreign policies. His main argument was that the large deficits generated by the Bush administration — generated by decreasing taxes, increasing public spending, and fighting the Iraq war — were in the long run unsustainable, and would eventually generate a major economic crisis. The book was a best-seller.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    Comment by Tim — November 9, 2009 @ 6:38 pm - November 9, 2009

  3. So now he’s blaming Republicans for California’s fiscal crisis and claims the rest of the country “could” follow?! That’s rich. Has this guy ever run anything but his mouth?!

    We could reword his last paragraph to something more appropriate, “The point is that the takeover of the Democratic Party by the irrational left is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here – and it’s very bad for America”.

    Comment by Annie — November 10, 2009 @ 1:54 am - November 10, 2009

  4. I wonder if Krugman has pontificated on this, this, or this.

    Comment by ThatGayConservative — November 10, 2009 @ 3:09 am - November 10, 2009

  5. Krugman’s a self-serving hack dedicated to promoting his own agenda. This is news?

    Comment by Tully — November 10, 2009 @ 9:17 am - November 10, 2009

  6. Howsabout the Nobel be-medaled Paul Krugman study out an economic plan for dragging the New York Times out of the depths of the sea of red ink in which it is drowning?

    After all, if he can pontificate on the entire US economy, he can certainly figure out how to manage one little old newspaper which has a circulation less than Glenn Beck’s Christmas card list.

    Or, maybe, just maybe, Paul Krugman is all hat and no horse.

    Comment by heliotrope — November 10, 2009 @ 5:20 pm - November 10, 2009

  7. I went to the comments on Krugman’s column and the first comment was one of the most recommended by readers. It speaks volumes about the liberal left:

    …” The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.”

    NO DOUBT ABOUT IT! But, Professor Krugman, I have more faith in our young people and their voting intelligence than perhaps you do! The really crazy right-wing whackjobs I see (wielding Obama-as-Hitler signs and yelling about Government taking away their healthcare) are mostly middle-aged, beer-bellied, depressed looking losers! I have looked closely, and notice only a few young people–mostly with older people, presumably parents!

    I think the “tea-party” types are, in the main, a bunch of not-so-bright, easily manipulated folks who are in a snit about all of the terrible things happening in our country about which we are all in a snit! They just have a more obnoxious way of expressing it–and follow psychopathic “leaders” and corporate lobbyists who enable them! And, let’s face it, there is more than a little RACISM involved here!!!!

    Call me a cockeyed optimist, but I think the Democrats will win big in the 2010 elections–and hopefully there will be more progressives among them! What I am worried about now, even more than the likelihood of a watered down healthcare bill, is the probablity that Obama will send many, many more troops to the wasteland of Afghanistan–and we will be pouring more money and lives down the BLACKHOLE OF WAR!!!! This scares and saddens me beyond belief!!!!!

    Barack Hussein Obama, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm, mmmmmmm.

    Comment by heliotrope — November 10, 2009 @ 5:48 pm - November 10, 2009

  8. Krugman was absolutely spot-on with that column. I know it must get y’all upset on first reading, as you have your typical partisan response – but I do urge you to reread it, and think about it. He is absoutely right.

    Comment by Tano — November 10, 2009 @ 11:09 pm - November 10, 2009

  9. Spot on, Tano? Have you met any conservatives and heard their concerns? Based on your comments here, you don’t even read the posts to which you attach your comments.

    Krugman is clueless about the state of the right. And his column indicates that he focused on the extremists and ignores the mainstream. Sounds like some of the people who comment to this blog.

    No wonder you thought the column was spot on. It’s just as off-base as many of your comments.

    Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — November 10, 2009 @ 11:58 pm - November 10, 2009

  10. Geez, Krugman, for an LGBT economist for who’s opinion I always find interesting, I think the only thing left out of your article was the classic LGBT perjorative for Republicans………..assholes. ROFLMAO.

    Comment by RJLigier — November 11, 2009 @ 1:59 am - November 11, 2009

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