Krugman Doubles Down: Post-9/11 Was “Shameful” But We Should Be “Proud” Of Ourselves For Not “Lynching” Muslims And Dissenters…
He has a seemingly endless supply of douchiness.
(NY Times) — It looks as if I should say a bit more about yesterday’s anniversary. So:
The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America — a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.
It was a time when tough talk was confused with real heroism, when people who made speeches, then feathered their own political or financial nests, were exalted along with — and sometimes above — those who put their lives on the line, both on the evil day and after.
So it was a shameful episode in our nation’s history — and it’s one that I can’t help thinking about whenever we talk about 9/11 itself.
Now, I should have said that the American people behaved remarkably well in the weeks and months after 9/11: There was very little panic, and much more tolerance than one might have feared. Muslims weren’t lynched, and neither were dissenters, and that was something of which we can all be proud.
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Protecting Muslims is Job #1 with liberscribblers, despite the lack of reciprocity.
One politician who comes to mind regarding feathering their nest is none other than Mayor Gloomberg
Mr. Krugman, try this on for size:
http://suckersonparade.blogspot.com/2011/09/votes-are-in-asshat-of-year-2011.html
I wish many more would cancel this subscription to NY Times! I don’t think it would take much to push them under!
who do u aim ur shame at on the act of 9/11? who?
he has such a condecending attitude of americans,
get out in small towns around u.s.a. and really talk to people sometime krugman,
Whats shameful is he wasted all that hemp by smoking it where he could have made a rope and done humanity a favor.
If only Muslims would be as tolerant as Comservatives since during the week of Aug 27 – Sep. 02, Muslims have killed 151 people and critically injured 284 people.
So Krugman, based on this fact, are you going to run over to the middle east and condemn them? How easy it is for you to cast aspersions for NO DAMNED GOOD reason because you have yet to produce ANY evidence that we string up Muslims dumbass!
Or maybe it’s WAY safer to point your finger at us and ignore the genocide that Muslims are waging every day outside these United States.
Piss on you moron!
I wish Bush, Guiliani, or Kerik would see him on the streets of Manhattan and promptly piledrive his head into the concrete.
Probably do more damage to the concrete than that pile of rocks though.
RTS
@texray
Wouldn’t that require a spine! He feels rather safe in the cesspool he calls a newspaper!
On Krugman’s tombstone:
WTF was wrong with him?
the people most likely to commit violence in country are mostly obama liberals voters krugmeister, look it up
There is something wrong with the way Krugman thinks. No Doubt he would have been at the forefront of those condemning Franklin Delano Roosevelt for attacking the Japanese had he lived in that era. I’m sure he would have bought into the conspiracy that he knew the Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor but allowed it to happen to have a reason to go to war against Imperialist Japan. The same analogy applies to those on the warped and narrow thinking left that think 9-11 was an inside job orchestrated by the Bush Administration.
Of course such people utilize no deductive reasoning in their positions at all.
For some reason they simply cannot fathom the reality that there are evil and violent ideologues out there that want to kill us.
I hope “Z” posts the exchange between Benjamin Medea and a former Bush administration official Brad Blakeman on the Megyn Kelley show this morning as Media tries to defend Krugman.
The perspiration of desperation of the Marxists.
Mackie,
FDR was a Progressive’s dream.. Sluggman would have been on the side of his Progressive masters..
Oy!
This meshugina again!!
Someone needs to call Michael Lerner and tell him we found another escapee from his booby-hatch!!!
And Mr. Krugman, I’m going to leave you with these two words that your Grandparents probably told you when annoyed the hell out of them:
“Stup ir”
I’ll give a clue to you gentiles: two words; one begins with “F”, the other with “Y”.
Shalom!!!!
I’d like to double down my fist right into former Enron Adviser Krugman’s face. What a sad little man.
Krugman’s shelf live expired long ago. He deserves no more attention than a swatted fly.
Actually young man, I know of a few who’ve thought of lynching assholes like you!
Krugman is the spokesman for the modern Democrat Party.
Keep it up libtard – New Yorkers who lost loved ones on 9-11-01 and who have voted for Democrats their entire lives will be voting for the GOP.
FOAD KRUGMAN!
@Rabbi Rabinowitz:
LOL! I’m a Gentile, but I speak German and I figured out what “Stup ir” meant without your translation clue.
Shalom back at ya!!
FU Krug. Piece of shit.
Come to Missouri and let me have him for a day.
I’ll bet he’s OK with 4,000 inconvenient babies being killed everyday so that their mothers can live as they wish.
He is lucky the muslims havnt already put a fatwa on him but he is a liberal bootlicker pansietard
There are, evidently, weird thinkers in our arena these days. Krug’s one of them. Also discovered one of my closest friends is a “truther” when it comes to 911. Amazing. They’re found where you least expect ‘em.
Go Krugman! Keep talking! Make sure everyone knows you’re a Liberal and the NYT gives you their blessing. In fact, if you can, see if you can get Debbie Downer to talk with you. What gold the Republicans will have to use against you tools later!
Will krugman please step into the nearists disintigration booth and save us from his crappy newspaper articles
Wow. Unbelievable. This guy obviously can not tell that his boat has sunk. He is bailing water from an ocean of disgust with a tin cup. Unfortunately in life there is such a thing as “too little..too late”. He seems to be unaware of this truism or just too self-absorbed to notice.
A little advice…
Paul, quit digging…let go of the shovel…and come out from the hole…it is too deep already.
You in the hole. You’re surrounded. Put the shovel down and place your hands over your head. Do it now.
Krugman’s follow-up to his first piece says nothing. Whether you like Bush/Cheney or not…their focus was on fighting terrorism, and their
is NO evidence either man “profited”. To draw a comparison….their is also NO EVIDENCE Krugman’s theories ever benefited an economy.
And, speaking of profiting after 9/11..we need look no further than his own paper the NY Times and the damage it did to our military efforts in Iraq with the continuous op-ed against interrogation techniques.
Krugman, like many at the NY Times believe their “brilliance” should be displayed on any and every subject. Perhaps next he will offer opinions on
sports as well.
Conservatives are upset. Boo effing whoo. I am glad he said it-he’s right. The douchebags are stupid right wing blogs!
P.S. Greg Sargent has a good history lesson up to remind all your learning impaired brains what really happened in the years following 9-11.
Paul, your thinking loses validity when staring down the barrel of an AK47 or at an RPG headed for you. You are unarmed, of course, because all of your solutions can ONLY come about through learned discourse, yes? Oh, wait, that’s only possible when you have the muscle behind it – pretty much as it has been forever and for infinity. Your ivory towers need protection, too.
Get on your knees and thank Yahweh, God, Allah, or the great pig tree god (whatever works for you) that you have the protection (and tolerance) of the US military and the people with the will to use it to cover your right of free speech and ass for you, as so evidently needs doing. On about 80% of this planet you’d have no voice.
What a flippin dolt.