Tag Archives: Paul Krugman

Hatemongers

No, not the garden-variety nutjob who shot the Arizona congresswoman and a string of others Saturday in Tucson, but professional political haters like the Kos Kidz who airbrushed their hate file on her hours later to hide their true nature.

And especially Paul Krugman who is always seeking political advantage from mass murder. This time they’re all bashing Sarah for alleged instigation, since the gunman was not, alas for them, of the Tea Party.

Well, here’s some Dem instigation from the top: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” – Barack Obama. Was that influential?

The Tucson shooter seems to have missed the Right-wing bus but caught the socialist/communist trolley, as well as being paranoid about government mind-control. Could be displays of his tinfoil hat any hour now.

Interesting that the moderate Dem congressperson victim is married to a NASA astronaut who is assigned to command the last space shuttle flight in April. I hope she recovers as fully as possible and wish the survivors the best.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Making it explicit: “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”

With the liberal media’s (sorry for the redundancy) full cooperation, I might add.

The Revolution Business

They say that science fiction is the Literature of the age. Scfi author Charles Stross, who has written some good ones, unfortunately churns out mere political propanganda with The Revolution Business,  the new part five of his Merchant Princes series. As usual, there’s plenty of bad guys to go around, including, as always, a few bad girls. But this time, right up there at the top of the evil heap is, wait for it, former vice president Dick Cheney. And Haliburton, of course. Pathetic.

Then, it actually gets worse. We learn of another evil actor named Wolfowitz, and, lo and behold, with their choice of museums and other buildings to blow up, the bad guys, who don’t know Jews from penguins, choose D.C.’s Holocaust museum. I’m not saying Stross is anti-Semitic. Maybe he just wants to look that way. In a further cheap aside, he whacks the Nixon administration for allegedly being so callous as to plan to set off a nuke in an American city. In case we might have missed which American political party Stross dislikes.

I was enjoying the series. I went so far as to pay extra for the new one, in hardback. Let that be a lesson to me. Now that it’s become specifically politically partisan, it’s far less entertaining. I might have known: the blurb on the front cover was a tipoff. I thought it was coincidental, but not now. NYTimes pundit Paul Krugman, one of the prime authors of Bush Derangement Syndrome, is the blurber.

I can’t say the book, itself, is bad. It’s got more cliches than ever before, but that’s to be expected, I suppose, in a popular series. The editing seems to slip away as the money rolls in. See Harry Potter. If the chief bad guy had only been fictional, it would have hung together a lot better for me. As it is, I wouldn’t recommend the book or the series to anyone who doesn’t have BDS real bad. Not any more.

Hysterics

Like a lot of Brits today, Harry Hutton seems to derive most of his knowledge of Americans from the celebrity news media, but I think he’s got Paul Krugman nailed:

"Like a lot of Americans, this man is a serious hysteric, either whooping and high-fiving, or sobbing like a baby."

Actually, Harry, a lot of us Americans think Krugman is a moron.