George Will Exposes Paul Krugman Hypocrisy On Political Ads
George Will on Sunday exposed New York Times columnist Paul Krugman as a hypocrite when it comes to political ads.
ABC’s Christiane Amanpour opened the Roundtable segment of “This Week” with a discussion about some of the Tea Party candidates and the campaign commercials they’re running.
After Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m Not A Witch” ad was shown, Krugman and PBS’s Tavis Smiley typically bashed her and other Tea Partiers on the ballot.
Moments later, Will marvelously pointed out, “There are five freshmen Democratic congressmen -- that is, the people who came to Congress in January 2009 -- who are running ads claiming that they voted against TARP, which was voted on months before they came to Congress.”
Krugman’s response was nothing less than preposterous (video follows with transcript and commentary):
PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: The Tea Partiers may be helping the GOP, probably will be in this election. They might help in the next election. However, they make the GOP even less able to actually function as a governing party. If we have a Republican Party that actually takes the White House, actually has control of Congress, but contains a large (inaudible) of these people, it's going to be incapable of making real choices. These are people who are -- who are as irrational as they seem in these ads.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, HOST: George?
GEORGE WILL: I don't think they're irrational at all. I don't think that the Tea Party is doing anything other than asserting something deep in the national political DNA, that is, a suspicion of the central government and a belief in limited government. And by the way, while we're on the subject of ads, in the interest of being fair and balanced, let's notice five interesting Democratic ads. There's a group called -- what's it called -- FactCheck.org, that checks the truthfulness of these ads. There are five freshmen Democratic congressmen -- that is, the people who came to Congress in January 2009 -- who are running ads claiming that they voted against TARP, which was voted on months before they came to Congress.
AMANPOUR: Fair point?
KRUGMAN: That's not -- that's not the same. I mean, what -- we have -- and there are going to be bad ads -- but this is -- no, there are some seriously strange people running thanks to the Tea Party.
That’s not the same? People lying in campaign ads is acceptable?
Tells you a lot about how Krugman thinks, doesn’t it?
He’s all worried about some of the so-called kooky things being said in campaign commercials by folks on the other side of the aisle from him, but sitting members of Congress lying about votes they took in Congress is no big deal.
Is there any better reflection of the seriousness of liberal media bias in our country at this stage in history than a Nobel Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times practically yawning on television when it’s revealed that five freshman Democrat members of Congress lied about their voting records in campaign ads?
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They're such little lambs
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 10:04pm.
Other than the "R" after their names, just what make them strange Krug? This is just another in the long line of White House-directed Tea Party attacks.
What's next, "unwashed"?
Of course!
Submitted by Tom1969ca on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 11:14pm.
What's next, "unwashed"?
Naturally. The Tea Party is everything Obama is not.
According to his own VP, Obama is "clean". Therefore... ;-)
Yes it does
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 10:10pm.
Tells you a lot about how Krugman thinks, doesn’t it?
But hardly surprising. Krugman like most of the left, believes the ends justify the means. Unfortunately for the rest of us, they never let on to what the ends are.
Liberal radicals have always
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:51am.
Liberal radicals have always wallowed in massive hypocrisy. It's in their DNA.
The Nobel Prize is Neither
Submitted by gopcongress on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 10:59pm.
The "Nobel Prize" is neither "noble", nor a "prize" anymore.
(Paraphrasing the communists' claim that "the moral majority is neither).
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Kruggie has a lot of nerve
Submitted by mattm on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 1:04am.
Kruggie has a lot of nerve calling anyone irrational and strange. He seems perfectly willing to accept lefties who LIE in their ads, yet non-lefties seem weird to him...
"I don't think the Left needs a 'rally to restore sanity', they need therapy." - Publius
The efficacy of ads
Submitted by KC Mulville on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 1:34am.
The simplest question of all: do they sway you?
It may be that they do sway you, and you're not aware of it. One wonders, however, how you would address a district where the ads are even. Suppose you intended to vote Republican. What kind of ads would sway you to vote differently?
Way too much being made of ads.
Tactics
Submitted by jdlybrand on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:37am.
As a strategy, it seems to me that Krugman would realize Tea Party marginalization is not working; for him or his beloved Democrats. Aren't Nobel prize winners supposed to be smart people?
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Krugman's a day late and a
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:52am.
Krugman's a day late and a dollar short...and extremely desperate.
Yeah, usually
Submitted by Model850 on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:00am.
Aren't Nobel prize winners supposed to be smart people?
Yeah, usually they are, but the committee did hand one over to Duh One so....
Model850, are you illuding to
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:36am.
Model850, are you illuding to the fact that the Noble Prize people gave Duh One a Noble Prize for essentially doing something he had not done yet? After all Duh One had only been the President for only ten days when the voting had closed that year and presidents are normally just organizing who will be in the administration in the first month or so of their presidency. I think the Nobel Prize is now reserved for patting liberals on the back for doing liberal things and has become a joke. Mr. Nobel must be turning in his grave.
It's the End Of The World as
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 7:59am.
It's the End Of The World as he knows it........and he feels numb.
Not that he ever really said anything of any import in the past , but lately his incessant psychobabble sounds eerily incoherent and desperate.........sortof like when the president foolishly attempts to speak without his beloved teleprompters.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Will once again gets Kruggie
Submitted by HockeyKid on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 8:26am.
Will once again gets Kruggie to contradict himself. Krugman calls Tea Partiers "irrational", yet defends Dems who claim to have voted for legislation that passed prior to their tenure. Makes one wonder how Kruggie defines "irrational".
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
All Krugman needs to do to
Submitted by Beukeboom on Mon, 10/11/2010 - 9:43am.
All Krugman needs to do to find an ongoing illustration of "irrational" is for him to look into a mirror. Maybe that's not such a good idea...vampires don't have reflections.
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