Paul Krugman on CSPAN2 Book TV now!

CSPAN2 | 11/13/2004 | CSPAN2

[speelurker]

Paul Krugman addressing Miami Book Fair International live.

[speelurker]

What a weasel!

[jim from cleveland]

Beat me to it, Total lying jerk!

[speelurker]

He just said that privatizing Social Security will cause a financial collapse like happened in Argentina!

People take this guy seriously?

[CitadelArmyJag]

I sent the weasel this email..... No response of course.

Mr. Krugman,
In response to your most recent article, “No Surrender,” which was delightfully dripping with anger. Aside from the fact that it was completely ridiculous, I found your rant horrendously entertaining and disgusting, which prompted me to offer you the thoughts of a young conservative Army officer.
You can try to convince yourself and others that the President's victory was one begotten only through vestige sentiments of 9/11 and through the meddlesome intervention of the “religious right,” but this fails to explain the losses that your party has incurred in every election for over a decade now. With the exception of the anomalous Clinton Presidency, which never received the percentage of the vote that Bush just did, your party has not held the executive office since 1980. Come 2008, you will have been out of the office of the presidency for twenty of the last twenty-eight years. Things have been equally bleak for you in the Congress, as you have lost seats and remained a minority in the House for over a decade now. In the Senate, your numbers continue to diminish, with your very leader being ousted this past week. Yet still, you claim “No Surrender!” The ridiculousness of this statement, cried out by you effeminate peaceniks and perpetual capitulators, is only fully revealed when juxtaposed to the unremitting resolve of our President and Armed Forces. I understand that you are jealous and feel alienated from a country that shares neither your liberal agenda nor your twisted moral relativism. Allow me to try to explain it to you.
Firstly, your Party is one surrounded by scandal and controversy, and this is no fluke. The Democratic Party suffers from a lack of moral absolutes and the traditional, AMERICAN values that this country holds dear. You have lost the ear of the everyday people, as you no longer have leaders like FDR, Truman, or Kennedy, but have only a party of radical, secular, and socialist fanatics. These fanatics are typified by negative, lying propagandists like Michael Moore and the criminals like Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Jim Traficant, Al Sharpton, Clinton, McGreevy, etc, etc. These “leaders” no longer provide leadership in this country, but issue only “a long litany of complaints.” There are no solutions offered to these complaints, which are then spuriously propagated by media hacks such as yourself. Your party panders to the errant sense of entitlement held by the weakest parts of our society. You are fear mongers, race-baiters, and poverty pimps, who offer not true leadership, but only fear and dependency. The left tries to divide this country and promulgate the perception of “two Americas.” This a approach at governance is derived not from the Constitution, but from the Communist Manifesto, where talk of optimistic opportunity and personal responsibility is replaced with inflammatory comments directed towards inciting warfare between the classes. Again, as you may gather from the last election, it is not working. But don't surrender yet, as there is more…
The scandals and controversies of your party disgust the American people, as they reveal the true core of the Democratic leadership. I am not saying it is not inspirational. The only problem is that it inspires the wrong people. The left has been propping up the enemies of this nation since Vietnam, and has found aid in comfort in your disloyal rants against everything America. Do you ever wonder why Yassar Arafat might have endorsed Kerry? Why Osama Bin Laden so HATES Bush? Do you wonder why eight of the nineteen September 11th hijackers were registered –by A.C.O.R.N. incidentally- democrats? Tell me Krugy, Why do the French love you so? Zell Miller knows! It is because the Democratic Party is “A National Party No More,” having come to prefer a more European, secular and socialist society. Now take a breath Krugster, I am not saying that the entire Democratic Party is comprised of Islamic terrorists. After all, you are a BIG TENT party, with other pseudo-terrorists groups like E.L.F, and P.E.T.A., N.O.W., and N.A.R.A.L. However, the Big Tent party doesn’t stop there… lets not forget the diverse thought pool of liberal academia and the old media, whose disloyalty is only equaled by their pretension and arrogance –another important tenet of liberalism.
Newsweek just reported Kerry to have said during his campaign, “I can’t believe that I am losing to this idiot.” IF your leaders aren’t [war] criminals or charlatans –and Kerry was both-, they most certainly are elitist snobs who radiate condescension and self-importance to all who have the misfortune of encountering them. Thus, the American people have done their best to limit their encounters with you by canceling their subscriptions to your liberal rags and by changing the channel. The old media no longer provides your party with the privilege of a rose-tinted filter, through which your party is propagandized, and conversely, conservatives are vilified. You whine and exclaim, “Propaganda?!?" Oh now, these things happen… Look at Abu Gharib”… Doesn’t anybody care?” The answer is a resounding NO!
You must find yourself desperate to understand why the American people didn’t “hold Bush and his cronies accountable” in the last election, if not for the controversies you created, than for their sheer simplicity and inferiority. My answer to you, which you undoubtedly won’t believe or understand, is that the American people sees the contrived attacks made by your leftist papers and networks as just that, contrived attacks. They trust George W. Bush, and believe in the right to protect ourselves without having passed some arbitrary “global test,” and share his belief that marriage is something sacred and worth protecting. I will let you in on a little secret, in mainstream America religious faith and conviction isn’t viewed as pedestrian, and protecting ourselves from terrorism isn’t viewed as a “war crime.”
You can say it wasn’t a landslide, but Bush won over 40% of the vote in 47 states. Kerry won over 40% of the vote in 13 states. Bush received more votes than any other President has ever received, and won the popular vote by nearly four million votes. This is something that your beloved Clinton never did, and it’s the first mandate since Bush Sr. beat another out of touch liberal from Massachusetts back in 1988. Your incomprehension of these things is neither unexpected nor unwelcome, as our party will continue to grow as the Democratic Party continues to separate itself from the majority of the American people. This trend will continue until your party finds a soul again, and in consideration of your own vow to offer “No Surrender,” it doesn’t appear that this epiphany will occur any time soon.

[jim from cleveland]

This idiot has had the sky falling for 20 years now, What a moron. He is going on that America s a bananna republic, Social Security privatization is the beginning of economc disaster,"i am afraid, I am very afraid!" Paul Krugman

[durasell]

I don't watch cable television often, but when the opportunity does arise, I try to tune into the book show on C-Span. Usually it is well worth the watching.

[FreedomPoster]

Full paragraph separation (2 CRs) is your friend.

[speelurker]

Now he's saying that the United States is now on the way to being viewed a rogue power that endorses torture.

[CitadelArmyJag]

"The United States is well on its way to becoming a rouge power" Hahhahahha

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Krugman strikes me as an essentially unserious person. He lives in a liberal cocoon where even his silliest and most outlandish statements draw uncritical praise.

He blithely refers to our country's situation as a "nightmare," and says his biggest fear is "repression" by the Bush administration, as if the NY Times is in imminent danger of being shuttered by the forces of the right.

[speelurker]

Yeah, check out the bags under his eyes. I think he really does believe this stuff because he doesn't look like he's getting much sleep.

[speelurker]

Now they're going to do a phone call-in! Three phone lines set up for the different type of supporters....

This should be fun.

[jim from cleveland]

TOTAL A$$ they are taking calls to talk to him in person Flood both lines Rep Dem and indy line, ask him what it is like to be a vacuouse moron leftist marxist turd!

DEM # 202-5853885

Rep# 202-585-3886

Indy # 202-585-3887

[jim from cleveland]

Nice job Detroit!

[Racehorse]

Paraphrased.

Detroit: "Why don't you should the same contempt for Islamic terrorists as you do American Christians?"

Krugmann: "Uh . . . duh . . . what can I say? Ah . . . duh . . . Uh . . . you've already made up your mind."

Next call.

[jim from cleveland]

What an idiot this guy is.Its all Fox's fault.

[jim from cleveland]

If the Dems were in we would never have Privatization of SS>

[jim from cleveland]

He is gone now, I don't think he can hurt us any more>>

Total JACKA$$

[squirt-gun]

Our only local paper is owned by the NYT....This A.H. is always prominately featured...ruins my day.

I'd stop buying it but my wife wants to see the local news.

The picture posted above his columns reminds me of the typical Gitmo detainee.

[cwb]

I like it! And using liberal-logic...more people "really" did vote against Clinton, than for him. What solace they may take from his presidency can only be lost in the fact that the Democrats were resoundingly defeated in 1994...with continual looses through this year.

And Democrats aren't just losing at the ballot box. As Rich Galen pointed out in a 2000 article...more than 436 elected Democrats left the party to become Republicans since the time Clinton was elected.

The Democrat's denial that this election is just an anomaly in an electorate that is really split is belied by the fact that the Republicans have erased a 20-point gap in party identification over the last 30 years. Within that same 30 years, the Democrats have gone from a majority Party in the South...holding all seats of government, to now, only having 4 seats in the Senate and scattered representation. De-Nile isn't just a river in Egypt.