NYT’s Leftist Scumbag Paul Krugman Bashes America On 9/11: “This Has Become An Occasion For Shame, The Nation Knows It”…
What an asshole. Sorry for the language but I can’t think of a better description.
(NY Times, Paul Krugman) — Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued?
Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd.
What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity?
The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.
I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.
Update: Even the reliably liberal Politico is noting the cowardice of Krugman closing his comments section.
HT: Preston
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The SOB needs to be bitch slapped.
And he has the gall to not allow any comments from readers!
This is an affront to the very concept of discussion, and the New York Times ought well to dismiss him for this disrespect to the Times and to the American public.
He’s a hugely disrespectful toad.
He should be fired for this.
Today.
What a disgusting, hateful weasel of a man.
As I sit here listening to the names being read off through tears my hatred of libtards returns.
Krugman actually uses the word “neocons” to rev up his base?
He’s probably having a gay (literally) old time listening to all the names.
May you be sitting with the rest of the commie SOBs in hell, Krugman!
I had to step outside and spit after reading this. To think that this shoe scraping got me to read his crap is insulting and will cause long term anger.
Zip – Your description of Krugman is spot on. These are the people we will be fighting for the rest of our lives to save our country.
Your 911 Memorial is very good.
I have told you before…I think your blog is the best!
what a dark twisted mind this man has, he needs to be put in a mental institution, he really does.
I can’t even get even get angry anymore, its like when a pchyso says something so outrageous, you look at it as a mental disease, that’s what I see in this man. Like I said, he needs to be put in a mental institution.
I hope when he goes home his mother slaps the shit out of him for being such an arrogant twat .
A new low, just when you thought he’d already reached it. And then, in cowardly fashion, he disallows comments.
Lefty shits like krugman are trying desperately to devalue and deface the memory of 9/11. It stands for something, it brings out the best in some ways. And they hate that.
Thanks Skip, really appreciate it.
I’m sure he’ll come out with an apology tomorrow.
Shit with eyeballs.
Don’t concern yourself about the language – he IS an ASSHOLE
he doesn’t want the world to rip him a new one in the comments section. He doesn’t really have a whole to say about it does he.
Attention whore.
The “Conscience of a Liberal”? Now that’s an oxymoron, like Jumbo Shrimp.
All He and his ilk know how to do is to throw money at people having difficulties – they certainly don’t want to get their hands dirty actually helping people.
And for those who disagree with them, they have nothing but disdain; which, like the throwing money – Other Peoples’ Money – at problems keeps them ignorant and brilliantly stupid.
The only cure for Krugman is buckwheats. Total waste of oxygen.
How can afterbirth become a living mass of cells that become a human?
8:30 AM. I just (not googled) but “asked” about islam. Go ahead you guys..Type in islam….see what comes up…Then type in islamic jihad…….ITS ALL ABOUT PALESTINE!! Phuk???????????! They even got muslims working for “Ask”….
This POS is a treator.
This really takes the cake from a POS like the Nobel Prize Winning economist who is never right. I just flushed my morning Krugman down the toilet. Cowardly weasel, no offense to weasels.
Frankly somebody should shove a copy of the NEW YORK SLIMES right down his throat and NEW YORK SLIMES and ALL THE SLUDGE THATS FIT TO PRINT
Krugman “takes one for the team” by drawing our attention away from Obama and his band of nincompoops.
That he uses 9/11 as his tool shows how horrible the media has morphed into a hate machine.
I hope God forgives him because I sure as hell am not.
For those who expect him to issue an apology, think again. The only “apology” he’ll issue is a more detailed explaination of why we should be ashamed as Americans for the 1400 years of oppression of poor Muslim lambs which lead them to perpetrate this desperate act of liberation on 9/11/01.
Gateway Pundit says the Slimes has pulled the post.
Shit – thats what this man is pure unadulterated feces. My whole life I never counted someones political beliefs against them, however since Obama took office and I got a real look at lunatic lefties, I have to say they are despicable and disgusting little turds. Maybe a boycott (if they have any readers left) of the Times would start to teach the marginal minority percentage of leftists enough is enough. If they can’t be normal human beings and civil we need to hurt them where it hurts in their dependant disengenious name calling pandering against all reality delusional pocketbooks.
Ashamed, ashamed of what Krugman, you miserable POS! Ashamed that we haven’t wiped out Islam off the face of the world? If you’re ashamed of America then why don’t you take your sorry libtard/progesso ass and live in Iran, Iraq or Egypt or some other worthless muslim counry?
Krugman who?
Zip,
Thanks for the great memorial page. The black zipper is appropriate. I hope you get to put up some more of the old video / audio. They are hard to watch / listen to, but necessary I believe. I will never forget AND I WILL NOT TURN TODAY INTO A NATIONAL DAY OF SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Krugman is every bit as intent on destroying America as the Mohammedans that attacked us on 9/11/01.
he was the kid who would eat worms or shove chalk up his nose to get attention.
Krugman provides a clear view into the mindset of the American Left.
This is the guy who said that an space alien invasion would help the economy, right?
Yeah.
If I ever see this bastard on the street…I’ll likely need someone to post bail for me!
Thank you. You have certainly opened my eyes. Being a dumb-assed southerner, I had no idea of how I should feel about 9-11. Any chance you might come down here to Angola on a speaking tour? No telling what else you might be able to teach us.
There is no darkness greater and more twisted than the ‘conscience of a liberal’.
A loser columnist for a loser publication. I didn’t think highly of the NYT; I think much less of it now. Garbage with ink thrown on it.
With all due respect folks, i personally dont follow or know anything about this man or his political leanings. I have however read the comments concerning the Firefighters of 9/11 who said that they heard multiple expolsions, were issued faulty radios by Guilliani, and along with other professional who are the REAL HEROS, agree with them, that this was a False Flag attack on this nation, and if you belive Oswald acted alone, Waco was justified in killing 87 people, gulf of Tonkin incident, the USS Liberty, the sinking of the Maine, operation Northwoods, the first World Trade center bombing involving the FBI and bomb making fiasco, Nine arabs who had problems flying cessenas, and somehow became super commercial pilots thst day, Operation Fast and Furious recently , that violates Federal law and used to attack the second ammendment, then i guess we are too far gone. You see ,the capstone that is the crowning achievement is printed on the back of the dollar bill, the JEWEL in the New World Order conquest is The United States Of America. If there is any doubt, and you decide to say hey this guy doesnt have any facts, i challenge you research some of these topics, listen to both sides of the argument concerning 9/11 and others, come to your own conclusions, and dont readily believe the M.S.M. The truth is out there, LOOK AT YOUR COUNTRY NOW. This so- called president wasnt elected, he was installed to further erode our country. The greatest military intelligence, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and others and we couldnt stop 9/11? Here is some more fear for you people, just give up a little more of your freedoms, a little more of your rights and we the Government will protect you, yeah sure, WHY do you leave the borders open, and allow God knows who, carrying God knows what into our country? I will tell you because it is ALL LIES! Take time today and pray for the famalies of 9/11.
What an asshole. Sorry for the language but I can’t think of a better description.
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I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with your description. A a**hole actually serves a useful purpose, he doesn’t.
Dirtbag Krugman should read the transcript of W’s speech at the flight 93 memorial. Krugman is a walking dick with ears. George W Bush, while I didn’t agree with everying he did, at least showed he is a class act. And has a heart.
Osama bin Laden did most of his evil planning under the administration of Krugman’s boyfriend, Bill Clinton. Had Clinton had the balls to go after bin Laden when he had the chance, 9/11 would have never occurred.
Copout:
I don’t know what you’re selling but we aren’t into conspiracies.
Fucking Islam attacking America on 9-11-01.
“What an asshole” says it all and says it well.
Krugman is a traitor let’s deport him to Iran where his backstabbing of Americans will be embraced.
I’d like to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye…
Fire this shit stain!
Krugman will have his judgement day, and he’s not going to like it.
What exactly was the purpose of this screed you P.O.S.? Not even enough courage to be specific in his charges. Eff U Krugman.
This is why I shake my head when people say “But there’s no difference between the ‘extremists’ on the left and the right”.
Only one despises America and wishes to see it destroyed. The other group aren’t even extremists…but in 2011 patriotism and love of your country is considered ‘extremist’ in an ‘increasingly multicultural, multi-national global community’ liberal media.
He may have blocked comments, but you can still feedback to the NY Times
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/membercenter/feedback.html
He needs to be fired.
“Is it just me” Yes, Krugmouse, it’s just you and all your liberal asshats. You can take all your liberal guilt and put it where the sun doesn’t shine.
If there’s anything America needs to be ashamed of, it’s tolerating the likes of KKKrugman.
The best part of Paul Krugman ran down his fathers leg.
It is beyond me how a Jew like Krugman and others can think like him – there have to be 2 kinds of human brains, I guess. How can it be so hard to fathom or understand that hate-filled muslims carried out this attack, or that they just hate us, period ?? And when we are attacked like this, we just have to sit back and ‘absorb it’, like owe-bum-uh said in some speech not long ago ??
Woe to them who call evil good, and good evil . . .
And liberals have no conscience – isn’t it obvious by now ??? They also are NOT the majority voice in this country ! ! !
My email to the new york slimes:
I think that Krugmans disgusting and repellent 9/11 comments have put him over the line where even your liberal rag might consider ridding you of this embarassment.
Krugman’s “I’m not going to allow comments for obvious reasons” is an explicit acknowledgement that this dumb sumbitch knows he’s just lobbed a turd in the punchbowl–and asked us to drink it.
“The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.”
Um, it was a wedge issue because you Marxists chose to root for the other side (if only by “explaining” how the U.S. “made them do it”), numskull.
Scumbag? Asshole?? You’re WAYYYY too kind! Hope this ends Krugman’s career.
I have to tell you guys this.
Paul Krugman’s Principles of Economics textbook is the most popular textbook in universities and colleges in California, according to a textbook salesman I deal with. (One of my collegues thinks that Paul Krugman is a great economist)
I don’t request a copy but I get one anyway. I unload that piece of shite as soon as I can.
Paul Krugman should be ashamed for being an economist and a human being on top of that.
What Krugman posted “was deeply shameful”.
Even Krugman knows it — whether he admits it or not.
Of course, by not allowing comments, he has admitted he knows it.
These are the facts which Krugman prefers to ignore:
http://sbvor.blogspot.com/2008/07/iraq-war-media-deceptions-101.html
http://sbvor.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-lied-about-iraq.html
What a pathetic coward to block comments.
Slaughter the Sheeple, I took an economics class revolving around international finance that used a book written by Krugman. It was complete shit, to say the least.
Thanks Stuart…I just emailed the NYT my comments on Paul Krugman’s tweet.
What a coward. Bet he was anally probed one too many times by the aliens he expects to invade us.
Truly, truly disgusting. The most despicable man in America.
One of the most offensive, disrespectful columns I have ever read – and considering that it’s Krugman, that’s saying a lot.
He is so used to pontificating (I remember when he called for Warming Skeptics to be tried for sedition) that it never occurs to him in his supreme arrogance – that there are times to keep ones mouth shut. This is one of those times. It’s a horrible anniversary; a painful, numbing remembrance for most of us.
Instinctively, the disgusting worm knows this. Why else would he have disabled comments on his column? He knew what he said would bring an angry response. The very fact that was well aware that his sentiments would upset many people – shows he did this deliberately. Yet he barged ahead, anyhow – knowing he would cause pain – and vomited his poisonous thoughts onto the well-exposed pages of The New York Times.
Hundreds of thousands of worthy men and women cannot find a job. Paul Krugman, however, sits in his ivory tower, making millions more than any of the firemen or policemen who put their lives on the line every day. I used to think the man was an arrogant, clueless, petty man – but now I see him for what he really is: Lowlife scum.
If I ever see this POS on the street, I’m gonna kick his ass- I don’t care if I get arrested for assault. His ass needs to be kicked from here to hell. He’s as evil as the terrorists.
“conscience” of a liberal, what an imminently oxymoronic phrase. I wish we could try this pariah for treason….
Krugman is a vile, hateful, hypocritical and unpatriotic assclown. I wouldn’t subscribe to this worthless newspaper if it were offered free.
I just don’t get liberal Jews like Krugman. Hasn’t this country been good to them?
Really, Paul Krugman? Really?!!! On today, of all days, you would make these kind of comments? Should I feel shame for the firefighters, policeman and port authority workers who ran into the building to save others and lost their lives? Should I feel shame for those in the Pentagon who crawled through fire to help each other? Maybe I should feel shame for the 40 souls on a flight over PA who tried to get control of the plane, or the construction workers who worked day and night at Ground Zero. Or maybe I should feel shame for the literally millions of young Americans who joined the military after 9/11 to help keep our country safe, or who became police or firefighters to honor their dead parents. And neither do I feel shame for those like President Bush who did what he thought was right to keep the country safe, even though you didn’t happen to agree with him. Sorry, the only shame I feel is for people like you who always see a glass that is half empty instead of half full. You will never see the beauty that is America because you are blind to it because of your own idealogy. Sad, really.
(I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons.)
oh, what a complete PUSS@ !!! I’ve got your reason, weasel: He is channeling his 10-year-old self: some lil’ fatboy on the playground tossing off the most scandalous “your momma” insult at you and then plugging his ears and shouting ‘lalalala’ so he does not have to listen to the anticipated deluge of (far better and more stinging) retorts. COWARD!
He better HOPE his bosses buy his claim that his blog was HACKED or this sorry sack of sh#t is going down for this unforgivable, craven remark.
Truly astounding!
@Slaughter the Sheeple
How can a textbook written by an economic advisor to Enron be considered for other than emergency toilet paper.
I’m ashamed!…………. Krugman and his ilk are amongst the American people.
Please send your comments to the NYT Editors at letters@nytimes.com. I’m sure they would love to know what we think of this gentleman.
Mozambique.
“commemorations oddly subdued”. WTF, does he want to see raucous crowds chanting ‘Death to America’? A gratuitous homicide bomber or two? Maybe behead an innocent grandma or Christian? Yeah, we definitely need to jazz this 911 party up.
Actually, Krugman is right.
The atacks were used by cowardly neocons like Cheney and Bush and Rummy to further their own political goals, and squandered the moral high ground we held.
Today we are less safe, less free than we were before the attacks.
And everyone knows it.
Paul Krugman has crossed the line from liberal/leftist surface basal cell irritation to despicable malignant deep cancer tumor menace…
Homer (September 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm),
Rather than risk having the NYT actually fire Krugman, better to lodge no complaints, let them keep him and allow their readership to further decline.
Of course, in any case, the odds of the NYT firing Krugman are roughly equivalent to Obama catching a clue as to why nobody is hiring workers — never gonna happen.
Go to hell Liberal.
Your Islamic pals with their 72 virgins are hoping you join them soon.
Typical leftist piece of shit
Like a typical liberal, Krugman is never the one being an asshole. He is the enlightened one who, because of his virtue and wisdom, can assess judgment on the rest of the world. Always taking the side of the perpetrator, his assholeship is profound. Shameful.
He Krugman is just your typical liberal scumbag, And if the Muslims ever get their hands on him he will see the light just before it goes out. He harbors the thought that he is intelligent not,
As usual, Krugman is spot on. Instead of a unifying event, it *has* been used as a wedge issue. The only thing to be proud of is the brave Americans who responded out of human compassion, not for a political or nationalistic agenda. 9/11 cannot be divorced from the misguided over-reaction that has been the last 10 years of war, a war that produces a 9/11-level of casualties very 3 weeks for Iraqis.
I imagine your readers won’t like what I’m saying, but the fact is that America’s leaders have badly misled us and squandered our resources (as in $10b/mo), and we should be ashamed for what has been done in our name. America is a great place full of really great people, who unfortunately are served poorly by our leaders. Those who died at the WTC on that day are in no way honored by the violence and hate that has erupted since.
The bugs are scampering out of the rotten woodwork.
Surely this jerk means “fake hero” Obama for taking credit for taking Bin Laden out. Who could forget how quickly he called a press conference saying “I, I did, I gave, I authorized” when he did nothing. Our brave military took care of him. The only other fake hero in this scenario is you Krugman for not allowing comments because you know the American people will rip you a new one!
LJ:
Why today?
I don’t get you liberals.
Do you only have sympathy for those not American?
Leave the country why don’t you?
Because you have to good here don’t you?
Your kind makes me puke.
Krugman should be fired for this affront to human decency.
Liberal, go seek mental help bastard.
Another liberal proving once again their moral compass is buried so deep we can’t pick it up on radar. As for a conscience, hardly you filthy piece of trash you’re what’s killing the US.
One day dont you hope to see a wrecking ball in front of the NEW YORK TIMES building and this krugman worm selling pencils on 5th ave to make ends meet
I was just wondering where people have said bush and rudy were heroes of 9/11. The heroes are the people that fought back or helped others on that horrible day.
I think krugman is trying to get attention by doing 2 things:
1) appearing to be a deep thinker to the left by bashing america
2) stirring up the right by insulting america
@LJ: The universal policies that governments implement in response to muslim attacks is to curtail the rights of the citizens. This gives people the comfort that the government is doing something. The government gets more power and the masses are appeased. This has been true in the USA, england, russia, france, etc.
Fake heroes like Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, and, yes, Maureen Dowd raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
“Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush”
I don’t recall any of these people putting themselves up as heros. His inclusion of Kerik is a pathetic snark, akin to including William Jefferson in a list of supposed liberal heros. Giuliani and Bush were LEADERS at time when we desperately needed leaders.
Compare that to Krugman’s hero Obama, he wouldn’t recognize true leadership if told him to drop and give it 20. Bush and Giuliani never had to surround themselves with fake greek columns to make a speech, claim that their asscention to office meant that the sea levels would fall and temperatures would cease to rise, Laura Bush never had to wait until her husband was nominated for president before she could finally be proud of America.
That Krugman is delusional is without dispute, the question is; How can so many be in agreement with him short of mental illness?
“LJ says:
September 11, 2011 at 12:49 pm
As usual, Krugman is spot on. Instead of a unifying event, it *has* been used as a wedge issue. The only thing to be proud of is the brave Americans who responded out of human compassion, not for a political or nationalistic agenda. 9/11 cannot be divorced from the misguided over-reaction that has been the last 10 years of war, a war that produces a 9/11-level of casualties very 3 weeks for Iraqis.
I imagine your readers won’t like what I’m saying, but the fact is that America’s leaders have badly misled us and squandered our resources (as in $10b/mo), and we should be ashamed for what has been done in our name. America is a great place full of really great people, who unfortunately are served poorly by our leaders. Those who died at the WTC on that day are in no way honored by the violence and hate that has erupted since.”
LJ,
We did not go to war to “honor” the victims of terrorism at the WTC, but to make sure that it never happens here again. The fact that you fail to grasp even this basic concept, explains your whole post.
I’m all for free speech and especially that of the lunatic leftests like this idiot Krugman. But I’m even more for holding them accountable for what they say. You know, like charging them with treason, slander, lying etc., hold court and then bash their fucking heads in!
WHY THE PEOPLE LIKE TO STAY IN DARK SIDE???do you thinking P.Krugman speaking without reason? no i’m sure not.
dana:
Please stay in gaza handing out treats to celebrate your brothers suicide.
It is much more becoming.
God damn Paul Krugman and all who sail in him.
“What an asshole. Sorry for the language but I can’t think of a better description.”
You damned well SHOULD apologise !
You have just demeaned assholes all over the world. Krugman will never so much as aspire to the exalted title of ‘asshole’ !
There will be a special place in hell for this P.O.S…and all the rest of the liberals that are just as despicable as he is.
Yes, Krugman, it’s really just you.
As blogger Andrea Harris would say, “Krudman is the type of person you’d love to punch in the face but for fear of getting his saliva on your knuckles.”
Krugman shows again that intellect doesn’t equal wisdom.
Congratulations Krugman : You’re now on my primary list, asshole.
His citizenship should be revoked, and he should be shipped off to the Middle East to live in mud huts with others who hate America.
Looking forward to his next television appearance. I wonder how he will defend his remarks??
Krugman is as effective an essayist as he is an economist. To what is Krugman objecting exactly? He writes, “What happened after 9/11 . . . was deeply shameful.” OK ?
Rather than explain his disgust, Krugman offers only a shady hit list of Republican names. This kind of inarticulate fuming is symptomatic of helpless fury. Why is Krugman so pissed? Perhaps because, alongside his vaunted Keynesian deficit spending theory, Krugman has become a laughingstock. His cratered confidence explains both his meaningless rant and refusal to invite discussion.
Monica: “Another liberal proving once again their moral compass is buried so deep we can’t pick it up on radar.” Nice!!
I slammed Krugman on my nlog too. This guy really belongs in the hospital for warped minds. I like to call him the Yoda of The Left.
Krugman is no more Jewish than Mel Gibson is Catholic.
He doesn’t allow comments from readers. All too soon, the New York Times will have none, no small thanks to him.
No, Krugman is not an asshole. Assholes are useful. He’s a despicable little shit.
Calling the column “The Conscience of a Liberal” merely demonstrates that he has no idea what either of those words mean!
One comment of many : “If I ever see this bastard on the street…I’ll likely need someone to post bail for me!”
You Christians sure are a bunch of hypocrites. Psychos- all of you (and not much better than your fellow conservative Muslim enemies either).
No surprise, and no change in his point of view from 3 days after 9/11 in 2001.
He thought the terror attacks might actually do some economic good. Any regard he may have had for the victims was completely overshadowed by his concern that a rise in American patriotism and solidarity might benefit his political opponents. As for outrage directed against the perpetrators; he had and has none.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/reckonings-after-the-horror.html
Hey Krugman….Hell called, your room is ready.
In decent times Krugman would have been tarred, feathered and run out on a rail….then he would have been hung.
Thresherman,
Thanks for responding. I see your point that our retaliation wasn’t about honoring the fallen, but that’s not really what Krugman was referencing. It’s more about not being able to ignore the subsequent decade of mismanagement, needless slaughter of innocents, and creeping totalitarianism. I trust you agree that it is possible to love America, mourn the fallen, AND criticize the actions of our leaders as they launch far-reaching military initiatives against the wishes of the majority and against the advice of history.
But I’ll respond to your specific point. The “war” (though it bears little resemblance to any thing of the same name in the past), ostensibly is to ensure that nothing of the sort happens here again you say, but has it ensured that? If and when it does happen again, will that justify even further needless slaughter? Or perhaps we should occupy the whole world to make sure that we are “safe”? Is that the world you want to live in? Is that the vision of our founders? Is that democracy?
And even if the initial retaliation against Afghanistan can be justified, the acts of a few crazy extremists don’t justify the detour into Iraq, a nation full of innocents that had nothing to do with what happened in NY on 9/11.
In other words, we shouldn’t forget the death we have caused over the last decade, death and suffering that was undeserved and did nothing to make us safer. It likely has revitalized radical Islam and created a whole generation of terrorists.
I know you care about our nation, and so do I. I also care about our neighbors around the globe, people who have families and dreams like you and I. 9/11 ushered in a decade of needless death, and this can’t be divorced from what happened on that day. The overreaction to 9/11 that we allowed does not exhibit the best of America, and this is what is to be ashamed of.
@LJ
OK, I read your position.
In retrospect…what would have been a “proper” response to 9-11?
Are you all kidding? Why is everyone so bent out of shape? The guy has an opinion and a platform to air it. Nothing wrong with that. Also i happen to agree with him. That makes me an ass hole, i guess…
“Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.”
If Krugman actually believes that, then he believes that Obama MURDERED Bin Laden. Good one, Paul.
In the current civil war of patriots vs. leftist revolutionaries, there is no mistake what side Krugman is on. But do not forget Krugman is very unstable. He thinks aliens will attack earth because of anthropogenic “global warming.”
Now, other people do not have such excuses. Those who profess they are “ashamed” of the U.S. in particular. The claimed focus of that shame is Iraq.
While expaining what they claim they find shameful about Iraq, we see them trot out the well worn lies and misrepresentations used ad nauseum by anti-American leftists. Those lies, whether its the claim Iraq was begun against the will of the citizens, was unilateral, or was predicated on an intentional misrepresentation about WMD, are pernicious and evil. Those who use them seek not rational intellectual debate but to poison the discussion while disparaging the country.
Iraq was a very well debated and supported traditional pre-emptive strike against a country whose dictator supported terrorism and had the ability to provide terrorists with WMD. The world recognized this and supported the action for the world cannot allow the possibility that terrorists use WMD against an innocent population.
The U.S., being the world’s most benevolent, peaceful, and generous force for good in the world led the way. Thankfully, President Bush had the courage to act and had good people around him to help.
Krugman is simply a sad case. True traitors, like Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Murtha, Kerry, and others did everything in their power to undermine the U.S. effort for personal gain. People who listen to them, or side with them, wanting to believe the worst of their country, are despicable.
Where Krugman goes wrong is not acknowledging that he and his lefty liberals were and are one half of those doing the wedging, while the Bush-Cheney righty republicans were and are the other half.
Both pissant sides are claiming the other is dividing America.
If you were to screw a guilt-ridden Krugman democrat lefty in the ass (using your dick, not mine) a self-righteous republican down the street somewhere would moan. And vice versa.
So shove it up the asses of both the guilt-ridden democrats and self-righteous republicans – all at the same time.
Third party in 2012.
This is what happens when you become a slave to Satan folks.
jc madera:
You’re right.
Your post does make you an asshole.
Libtard.
Would krugman please go and jump off the Talanachi Bridge the same one BILLY JOE McCALASTER jumped off
I have said all along that Krugman is a leftist idealogue posing as an economist. This is a man who has said, in so many words, that communism is preferable to unemployment.
For the record, I state that, no, Paul Krugman, I do not know in my heart that there is shame in the nation due to 9/11.
And for the illiterate Spurwing Plower at 8.41 p.m., it’s the Tallahatchie Bridge and the name is Billie Joe McAllister. Your illiteracy is like walking into a room and singing off key – don’t post.
@mcr
Nobody here has declared they want to kick this jerk’s ass in the name of Christianity. So why bring Christianity into this thread and compare us to “conservative muslims”? Why did you feel the need to throw your pointless little anti-Christian dig in? I see someone who had nothing witty or intelligent to contribute to the comments section about an opinion piece written by a guy who so richly deserves an ass kicking, yet still felt the need to spout off. What, are you 12 years old? Move along, adults are talking here.
PS… I like to think that Jesus would help hold Krugman down while we all took turns putting the boot to him. That thought makes me smile.
@separate reality
One part of the answer: not Iraq. This was obvious at the time, not in retrospect. The quagmire was predicted from across the political spectrum.
Here’s another question: what has the decade of war gained us?
Paul Krugman explains his nobel prize winning economic theory to Bugs Bunny:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BlU5V5BaMjY/Sc0HHqCvrFI/AAAAAAAAEcQ/Em6KsNcJtfk/s1600-h/Bugs_Bunny_Hare_Remover_Screwball.jpg
RTS
Paul “DoIlookshortstandingonthishugepileofmywife’smoney” Krugman smells his political demise in the air. Negative attention now is preferable to the absence of any attention paid to him.
And as for his Nobel prize….my money’s on his wife’s money purchasing a little persuasion in Oslo. Perhaps her Ladyship bought it from the same guy from whom Soros bought Barry’s.
I hear this Nobel prize guy in Oslo can get you a great deal on a replica Rolex, too.
@LJ
You did not answer Serarate Reality’s question, only posed one of your own. Very typical of those in the Haters of American Club.
Here’s a take….
Bush and company knew the conspirators of 9-11 were disjointed from any one particular country. The US needed a hub to work from and “somebody” had to answer for 9-11. At the time, the biggest douchebag on the block was Saddam, who at one time certainly had WMD’s (check history of Iraq’s gassing of own citizens). Saddam was rattling the sword over there (perhaps to deter Iran) and became the poster boy of evil. Remember, the US had to kick his ass out of Kuwait 10 years earlier. So Iraq was the winner of the invasion and from that point, we slithered into other countries to track down and destroy the terroristic groups.
Once captured, Saddam’s own counrtymen hanged him. I guess from your take it was the US fault that his fellow Iraqi’s despised him.
Sickofobama: Not selling anything, nor conspiracy theories, just the facts, research for yourself, based on your comment of attack, sisssy, you could do the world a favor by thinking for yourself, and learning what the HELL has been going on to destroy this country from within JACKASS! There is not always goona be someone there to hand your hand!
Why do we listen to this man, why does he have a forum? He has a Nobel Prize, but the currency of that award has been so devalued that even Yassar Arafat has one, among others of dubious merit…. (more) http://thesenewtimes.com/on-that-day-we-all-saw-it-clearly/
What a scumbag- get out of America; but the NYT has always been a leftist newspaper hiding under the guise of middle America democratic views. Wake up people; you are voting democratic; and electing socialists. educate yourselves. Regarding Krugman -NYT will not act on this or I’ll eat my hat. In the words of Jim Hoffa: Take him out
@Hammer Libs
You said: “The US needed a hub to work from and “somebody” had to answer for 9-11. ”
I appreciate the honesty. Your answer recognizes that it’s all about “our” desires, and the rest of our neighbors be damned. It’s this kind of attitude that Krugman and people of conscience are to be ashamed of, an attitude and “slithering” behavior you wouldn’t find noble in another nation.
But let me ask you: have you no concern for the innocents killed in our name? Do you approve when any nation acts with disregard for consequences and the lives of others in the way (you know, “collateral damage”), or is this a privilege only America gets to enjoy? If the latter how do you justify the double-standard?
Best,
LJ
Ignorant assholes calling Krugman an asshole. Ironic.
And if you like labeling all liberals “socialists”, just remember the “fascists” you conservative crazies vote for time and time again. And real STUPID ones at that.