So, You want to take Down Krugman? Just Embrace Your Inner Nazi…

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…and forget the personal attacks. At least be honest about it. What are you members of the right-wing attack machine really saying, anyway? That attacking Iraq for imaginary reasons was a good thing? Robbing the Treasury and adding trillions of debt was the patriotic thing to do? That the problem with Orwell’s 1984 is that it didn’t go far enough? That torture and imprisonment without trials rocks when we do it? As you swarm en masse like locusts on a fertile field – my apologies to swarming locusts – you once again only attack the messenger and leave the message unscathed.

One particularly noxious column by a twisted sister named Jennifer Rubin displays the lack of character so prominent in the attack machine’s members. Not one strike against the substance, but multiple assaults on Krugman’s person. She then uses her false outrage to berate the entire so-called, liberal media. Meaning of course any media that is not outright fascist. “One thing you can say for Krugman: The jewel of the liberal media is revealed to be an intellectual black hole and a spiritual wasteland. No wonder it is a dying enterprise. Its countrymen have better things to do than be insulted by the likes of Krugman.” Krugman didn’t insult his ‘countrymen,’ he insulted people like her, people like Bush, Limbaugh and Rumsfeld. Along with those in the media 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?”

Two things among the very long list of incidents that we should be ashamed of and that we should correct as a nation are the following. The division purposely fostered for political gain when we naturally wanted to unite, and the attacks on any who dared to speak the obvious. The Dixie Chicks, Michael Moore, Richard Clark, Amy Goodman, Cindy Sheehan, Jimmy Carter, Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame… the list goes on and on and no further names should be allowed to be added to this list. It’s time to stop those who have shamed our country. You.

[punkin87]

1. Right on!!!!!

[Suich]

2. We've got 14 months until the election...

wait til this attack machine really gets going!

Gonna be a long year!

K&R!

:hi:

[bjobotts]

27. The more they are exposed the more they are rejected as worse than pathetic.Sweep em out t

[roguevalley]

3. Krugman speaks truth to stupidity. He has been brave since the

beginning. Go, Krugman.

[tex-wyo-dem]

4. Excellent OP!

It's amazing, isn't it? When someone actually speaks the truth loudly, it's like a dog whistle was blown and all the RW fascist attack dogs emerge spewing verbal personal venom with nothing of substance. An attempt to cover-up the truth with emotionally-laced noise.

It's a deplorable tactic which, unfortunately, seems to work on a lot of people.

For the record, Ms. Rubin wouldn't know intellectualism or spiritualism if it bit her on the ass.

[hbskifreak]

5. oh, you and your facts!

Great job again. Thanks for keeping us informed on the truth!

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6. Should have mentioned Gore, too. They are constantly attacking him.

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13. .

:toast:

[suede1]

8. This is very good! K & R!!

[bertman]

9. REC. nt.

[StarsInHerHair]

10. kickety

[punkin87]

23. kickety. i like that :-)

[ihavenobias]

11. 40 n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

14. Here's something Jennifer Rubin needs to understand: the resistance

in Iraq, just like the resistance in Vietnam, kicked our asses. Yup, they defeated us. Not even a stalemate. The resistance defeated us.

What Rubin and her ilk are busy doing is fashioning the latest version of the 'stab in the back' stories, first made popular by Hitler and the Nazis to explain Germany's defeat in the First World War.

[krabigirl]

15. k&r!

[w0nderer]

16. k&r

seems to me he wrote it to 'harmonize' on an emotional level and a lot of people instinctually react to it

but of them a lot of people can't really complain (like the above article states) about the separate points when
taken coldly and separately

interesting view into the 'war time psyche' of some people

[Duppers]

17. K & R

:yourock:

[suede1]

18. Kick

[Honeycombe8]

19. Translation for Dems: If you don't agree w Krugman, you're a Nazi. Transl. for Repukes:

If you don't disagree with Krugman, you're a Nazi.

[Raster]

20. Hmm... I didn't get that "translation" from the OP at all...

...perhaps you're speaking a different language.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. check the join date...

"Operation Chaos"

[Raster]

30. now it all makes sense....

...I've noticed this one commenting before.... and I thought "what a smug, self-righteous ass." Now I know.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. It is funny how...

so many of the people who tell the lefties how bad we are, and how we are destroying the party, came over here during that time.

[Raster]

33. yes, not funny at all. I am not amused.

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21. I think you missed the point.

[liberation]

24. That would be an understatement...

[rhett o rick]

31. Bush was right. There are really only two sides to this war. Krugman is on the side fo the people.

Whose side are you on?

[me b zola]

22. K&R

[ejbr]

25. k & r !! n/t

[SteveM]

26. You'll know when he is taken down when MSM consigns him to the status of...

Noam Chomsky.

And it will.

[SanchoPanza]

28. It's difficult to top Jennifer Rubin when you're looking for dispeptic, reactionary gibberish..

Her http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/norway-bombing/2011/03/29/gIQAB4D3TI_blog.html">immediate assumption that the person who shot up a summer camp and bombed a government building in Norway was a Muslim radical, when it turned out to be a Christian nationalist, was particularly galling. Though, miraculously, it was not as galling as http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/evil-in-norway/2011/03/29/gIQAtsydVI_blog.html">her shallow and obnoxious attempt to walk it back once the actual facts started coming in. You have to go into the Pamela Geller realm of utterly paranoid derangement to get a more psychotic bang for your buck.

Yet one more reason why the Washington Post has become a steaming pile of narcissistic, Neoconservative bullshit. The faster they go out of business, the better.