Krugman: GOP ‘A Haven For Racists And Reactionaries’
News Busters
November 3, 2008
The Nobel hasn’t conferred any classiness on Paul Krugman. Dancing on the GOP’s grave this morning in his NYT column, the newly-minted laureate impugns the party of Lincoln as “a haven for racists and reactionaries.”
According to Krugman [file photo], tomorrow’s election will purge the Republican congressional delegation of some of its more moderate members, leaving it even more “extreme.”
The only evidence Krugman adduces in support of his Republican-are-racists slur is that GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia “observing large-scale early voting by African-Americans, warns his supporters that ‘the other folks are voting.’†Where’s the racism, given that 90+% of African-Americans are expected to vote for Obama and presumably for Chambliss’s Dem opponent?
View video after the jump of Joe Scarborough on today’s Morning Joe ripping Krugman as a “shrill, silly, partisan cartoon-character” who takes his cues from the left-wing kookasphere.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: He has accused the Republican party of being racists. This is a shrill, silly, partisan cartoon-character–seriously, he is–and he is not a serious thinker. He has thought patterns –
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Didn’t he win the Nobel Peace Prize?
SCARBOROUGH: He did, that’s why I’m saying this. He has thought patterns that are lifted directly from the most extreme elements of the blogosphere. He engages in hyperbole, exaggeration, what I would consider to be hate speech. And he has been rewarded, Mike Barnicle, a Nobel Prize.
MIKE BARNICLE: That’s for economics.
Good point. The Peace Prize is reserved for truly deep thinkers. Like Al Gore.
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