[Timesink]

And now, proof positive that Paul Krguman is a lying sack of SHIT. (Yes, I'm using profanity. He has stepped way, way, WAY over the line here, and he needs the Mega-Freeping OF ALL TIME.)

From: "WTCR FM 103.3" <***@wtcr.com>
Date: Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:21:42 PM America/New_York
To: ***
Subject: RE: Removing Dixie Chicks from 'TCR Playlists

Hi *:

Thank you very much for taking the time to write to WTCR - we appreciate your input and thank you very much for your continued listenership.

Regarding the Dixie Chicks and their recent comments about President Bush and their perception of world opinion of the U.S.; WTCR's parent company, Clear Channel Communications, has advised us to remain patriotic not political. One of America's freedoms is the right of its citizens to give his or her opinion without fear of reprisal - in this case the removal of an artist's music from the airwaves.

The Dixie Chicks statements are, admittedly, an emotional and potentially divisive issue, but it is not the policy of WTCR (through Clear Channel) to respond regardless of our personal opinions.

Again, thank you for expressing your opinion; WTCR values your input.

[Name Expunged]
WTCR

EXPLAIN THE DICHOTOMY, MR. KRUGMAN!

EXPLAIN THE DICHOTOMY, MR. KRUGMAN!

EXPLAIN THE DICHOTOMY, MR. KRUGMAN!

[Timesink]

Spread this far and wide. Krugman has finally gone too far in his lies and grotesque hatreds.

[frosty snowman]

Naturally, Krugman thinks its okay for communist organizations to sponsor ANSWER, and go unquestioned. But God forbid that a private company sponsors an event! The whole phony connection between the Dixie Chicks and the rallies is a figment of Krugman's imagination. Not to mention he is lying like a persian rug as you pointed out!

[Gunder]

"To those familiar with 20th-century European history it seemed eerily reminiscent of. . . . But as Sinclair Lewis said, it can't happen here."

Will someone please explain to Mr. Krugman that a group of 33,000 Americans deciding to get together to destroy some Dixie Chix CDs is not the same as a nation's leader )i.e., Hitler) ordering his troops to burn books. Idiot.

[NYCVirago]

This doesn't even make sense. All Clear Channel has in common with Cumulus Media (the ones who banned the Dixie Chicks) is that they both own radio stations.

Besides, Bill and Hillary get eight-figure advances on books that have yet to be published, and Krugman doesn't bat an eye. But let a radio station or two publicize a pro-America rally, and he gets his panties in a knot.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The New York Times: All the Liberal Propaganda That's Unfit to Print

[EternalVigilance]

When the pig squeals, you know you stuck him.

[jagrmeister]

The solution is to discredit Krugman. I would advise that we incessantly refer to Krugman's shilling for Enron in return for $50,000. Use that scandal to tar the man perpetually. Paul "Enron Shill" Krugman has this to say... Every radio station that refers to him should preface their remarks by saying "By the way, Krugman is the discredited journalist who took $50,000 from Enron to write a puff piece about them in Fortune while millions of investors and employees were being bilked." Destroy his credibility. Don't just call him a leftist. But attack his ability to be taken seriously as a journalist.

[OpusatFR]

Heck no. It just makes Krugman a brown shirted facist.

I suppose he would like everyone who criticizes him Silenced.

We can criticize in this country and use our bucks to make our wishes known.

[an amused spectator]

Experienced Bushologists let out a collective "Aha!" when Clear Channel was revealed to be behind the pro-war rallies

This from a guy who took payola from Enron.

You get dizzy reading the list of "connections" that Krugman develops, if you try to remember at the same time the connections of Krugman and his crowd of lying Leftist thugs.

[careyb]

Why would a media company insert itself into politics this way?

You mean a media company like The New York Times?

[Timesink]

afternoon bump - i can't believe FR isn't infuriated by this

[atomic conspiracy]

Several people have now told me that Krugman actually used the word "Kristalnacht" in the original version (online last night) but it was edited out some time after midnight (EST). Can anyone here confirm that, ideally with a screen capture?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

In the Clinton years the merest hint of impropriety quickly blew up into a huge scandal...

Actually during the Clinton years, I believe it was the reverse. The hugest scandals were treated as mere improprieties. (If they were even dealt with at all.)

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me ... I think Mr. Krugman needs to check the ratings of ABCNBCCBSCNN and FOX and then tell me I don't have a right to voice my opinion on anything. I VOTE WITH MY TV CHANNEL - and I don't buy the NEW YORK TIMES.

[Colt .45]

'This is an intellectual tragedy. The Marxist left, whatever else one might say about it, has traditionally offered a valuable perspective from which even the greatest conservative thinkers have learned — including Schumpeter and Thomas Sowell. But if it cannot rid itself of its current penchant for fantasy ideology of the worst type, not only will it be incapable of serving this purpose; it will become worse than useless. It will become a justification for a return to that state of barbarism mankind has spent millennia struggling to transcend — a struggle that no one felt more keenly than Marx himself. For the essence of utopianism, according to Marx, is the refusal to acknowledge just how much suffering and pain every upward step of man’s ascent inflicts upon those who are taking it, and instead to dream that there are easier ways of getting there. There are not, and it is helpful to no party to pretend that there are. To argue that the great inequalities of wealth now existing between the advanced capitalist countries and the Third World can be cured by outbreaks of frenzied and irrational America-bashing is not only utopian; it is immoral.

The left, if it is not to condemn itself to become a fantasy ideology, must reconcile itself not only with the reality of America, but with its dialectical necessity — America is the sine qua non of any future progress that mankind can make, no matter what direction that progress may take.

The belief that mankind’s progress, by any conceivable standard of measurement recognized by Karl Marx, could be achieved through the destruction or even decline of American power is a dangerous delusion. Respect for the deep structural laws that govern the historical process — whatever these laws may be — must dictate a proportionate respect for any social order that has achieved the degree of stability and prosperity the United States has achieved and has been signally decisive in permitting other nations around the world to achieve as well. To ignore these facts in favor of surreal ideals and utterly utopian fantasies is a sign not merely of intellectual bankruptcy, but of a disturbing moral immaturity. For nothing indicates a failure to understand the nature of a moral principle better than to believe that it is capable of enforcing itself.

It is not. It requires an entire social order to shelter and protect it. And if it cannot find these, it will perish.' - Excerpt from 'The Intellectual Origins of American Bashing' by Lee Harris of Policy Review

This writer Paul Krugman is obviously one of the leftist with moral immaturity. His order is destined to go down in history as the Dummies of the World. It sickens me how the left has always used our Bill of Rights to try and weaken our beliefs. We must fight them, and fight back hard! We must expose their lies and filth for what they are. Damn the Dixie Chickens, or Baghdad B*tches (if you prefer). And I damn every anti-war protestor as an amoral coward and a parasite, they are vermin and should be treated as such. Its too bad so many valiant men have laid down their lives to allow these spawn to have the freedom to spread the filth they propagate about our country. I am a proud veteran whose served for 20 years on active duty to defend our way of life, and I am saddened that these ba*tards call themselves Americans. To my brothers who still fight and serve, I support you 100%!

[CrimeOf73]

Since nobody else has, I will call Godwin's Law on Mr. Krugman's column -- specifically the allusion to Kristallnacht.

[Beck_isright]

This from the newspaper that thought Pravada was a useful news source from 1946-1992.

V

[RippleFire]

Tin Foil Topper BUMP

[Tamzee]

This guy is beneath contempt. I can't believe there isn't anything we can do to stop NYT from publishing deliberate falsehoods as "reporting".

[Tamzee]

An FYI you may want to look at.

Krugman at NY Times is claiming that Clear Channel set up all the "Rally for America" events.... as a favor to Bush. He apparently also made a Nazi reference calling us part of "American Kristallnacht". That now appears deleted from the current version.

Hope I pinged some of the appropriate rally organizers, wasn't sure who else would want to see this.