Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Pauly the K Foams
This is what I was talking about when I supported Paul Krugman for the past Idiotarian of the Year Award. Sure he lacks the overpowering blowharditude of Michael Moore, or the Darwinian notoriety of Rachel Corrie, but he more than compensates in craven sniveling innuendo and gibbering lunacy
Krugman described the conspiracy as "the coalition between the malefactors of great wealth and the religious right." He offered no further details about who, precisely, is in the conspiracy but said that "substantial chunks of the media are part of this same movement."
Krugman is undoubtable still smarting from the tender new orifice provided by Bill O'Reilly, but this time he was playing to a friendly audience at a gig for Bush bashing authors sponsored by NYU. They gave him a standing ovation. So apparently he felt comfortable in revealing the most closely held secrets of his unique worldview.
Keep it up Paul, and we'll be a cinch for next year.
Update - James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal comments:
Such paranoid lunacy would be merely laughable did it not come from someone who has a twice-weekly op-ed slot at the once-respected New York Times. Krugman's moonbat ranting encapsulates the combination of rage and nostalgia that is at the heart of the Angry Left. They still think they're fighting for civil rights, a battle their predecessors won two generations ago. They long for another Vietnam; hence the endless insistence that Afghanistan and Iraq are "quagmires." And they fondly remember--and hope for a repetition of--Watergate. This time, they hope, such a scandal will do permanent damage to the GOP and conservatism.
In the 1970s, the left prevailed in persuading America to withdraw from Vietnam, albeit at the cost (which they rarely acknowledge) of subjecting millions of Vietnamese people to communist slavery, and Watergate enabled them to bring down a hated president--something they had been unable to do at the ballot box. For guys like Krugman, that is, the era of Vietnam and Watergate was a time of triumph. But for most Americans it was a low point in recent American history--and certainly not something we'd like to relive.
Amen.
Krugman described the conspiracy as "the coalition between the malefactors of great wealth and the religious right." He offered no further details about who, precisely, is in the conspiracy but said that "substantial chunks of the media are part of this same movement."
Krugman is undoubtable still smarting from the tender new orifice provided by Bill O'Reilly, but this time he was playing to a friendly audience at a gig for Bush bashing authors sponsored by NYU. They gave him a standing ovation. So apparently he felt comfortable in revealing the most closely held secrets of his unique worldview.
Keep it up Paul, and we'll be a cinch for next year.
Update - James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal comments:
Such paranoid lunacy would be merely laughable did it not come from someone who has a twice-weekly op-ed slot at the once-respected New York Times. Krugman's moonbat ranting encapsulates the combination of rage and nostalgia that is at the heart of the Angry Left. They still think they're fighting for civil rights, a battle their predecessors won two generations ago. They long for another Vietnam; hence the endless insistence that Afghanistan and Iraq are "quagmires." And they fondly remember--and hope for a repetition of--Watergate. This time, they hope, such a scandal will do permanent damage to the GOP and conservatism.
In the 1970s, the left prevailed in persuading America to withdraw from Vietnam, albeit at the cost (which they rarely acknowledge) of subjecting millions of Vietnamese people to communist slavery, and Watergate enabled them to bring down a hated president--something they had been unable to do at the ballot box. For guys like Krugman, that is, the era of Vietnam and Watergate was a time of triumph. But for most Americans it was a low point in recent American history--and certainly not something we'd like to relive.
Amen.
papijoe 11:38 AM
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