Krugman nails it again

[Vattel]

Source: www.dailyhowler.com

THE DECLINE OF THE REST: Paul Krugman has long been our favorite top-level columnist—the one who almost always says something accurate and/or relevant. And of course, Krugman is the only high-end columnist who would have typed what follows. As we noted yesterday, this material appeared last Friday, on his New York Times blog:

KRUGMAN (10/10/08): One thing that has been sort of written out of the mainstream history of politics is the sheer insanity of the attacks on the Clintons—they were drug smugglers, they murdered Vince Foster (and lots of other people), they were in league with foreign powers. And this stuff didn’t just show up in fringe publications—it was discussed in Congress, given props by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and so on.

There are shortcomings to that paragraph—which appeared as part of a short post on a larger subject. In our view, it’s always a mistake when liberals fail to mention an obvious fact—the fact that the insanity of the attacks on the Clintons was quickly transformed, in March 1999, into the insanity of the attacks on Candidate Gore. And that twenty-month Group Insanity “didn’t just show up in” conservative editorial pages, like that of the Wall Street Journal; it was heavily driven by famous “liberals” on the op-ed page Krugman shares. We especially think of Frank Rich and Bob Herbert, who were still driving the most inane critiques of Gore even after his first debate with Bush. But the sheer insanity of the 1990s was widely purchased, all around. Even “liberals” signed up for the Clinton-hatred, then agreed to extend it to Gore.

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[democracy1st]

1. far left liberals don't give a dayum about Clinton,Gore or Obama

they rely totally on principle just look at Nader he asks as if no opposition party exists

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Good article on this in Vanity Fair...

Going After Gore
Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage.

As he was running for president, Al Gore said he'd invented the Internet; announced that he had personally discovered Love Canal, the most infamous toxic-waste site in the country; and bragged that he and Tipper had been the sole inspiration for the golden couple in Erich Segal's best-selling novel Love Story (made into a hit movie with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal). He also invented the dog, joked David Letterman, and gave mankind fire.

Could such an obviously intelligent man have been so megalomaniacal and self-deluded to have actually said such things? Well, that's what the news media told us, anyway. And on top of his supposed pomposity and elitism, he was a calculating dork: unable to get dressed in the morning without the advice of a prominent feminist (Naomi Wolf).
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Eight years ago, in the bastions of the "liberal media" that were supposed to love Gore—The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, CNN—he was variously described as "repellent," "delusional," a vote-rigger, a man who "lies like a rug," "Pinocchio." Eric Pooley, who covered him for Time magazine, says, "He brought out the creative-writing student in so many reporters.… Everybody kind of let loose on the guy."

How did this happen? Was the right-wing attack machine so effective that it overwhelmed all competing messages? Was Gore's communications team outrageously inept? Were the liberal elite bending over backward to prove they weren't so liberal?
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More at.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/gore200710

[Winterblues]

3. That is why I love Obama's message of ..ENOUGH

Goddamned Fucking ENOUGH

[ColbertWatcher]

4. You need to fix your subject line to include: "Nobel Laureate." n/t