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If This is the Real Conscience of a Liberal, Liberals Are Disgusting

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 11th, 2011 at 11:54 AM  | 

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Paul Krugman posits himself as the conscience of a liberal at the New York Times.

If he speaks for liberals, liberals are truly disgusting. I assume and believe that most liberals reject this and hope many of them will be vocal about the disagreement. And the New York Times might want to rethink using Krugman’s conscience as that of a typical liberal.

Today he remembers September 11, 2001.

He remembers 9/11 this way:

Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror.

He also believes, “The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”

I suspect Krugman and his ilk behave this way because they wake up on days like this and realize they are decisively in the minority in this country.

But I also suspect the editors at the New York Times agree with Krugman and are cool with this.

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  • mustango

    In an ideal world, comments would not be allowed on any future Krugman columns either, because there would be no future Krugman columns, for equally obvious reasons.

  • ladyliberty12

    What kind of mind goes there? What kind of heart is so hardened as to drop this venom and then run to the shadows by not allowing anyone to comment in defense of the indefensible?

    May God have mercy on your soul Krugman..

  • carolina

    His lies and officious comments are beyond disgusting.

  • veritaseequitas

    human beings. It is mind boggling that he actually has a public platform from which to spew his vitriolic blathering. It is really best to ignore twisted people such as him who would sully the memories of those who were lost on the dark day of 9/11

  • gekster

    I notice he also noticed he had closed off the comments.
    He knew that the comments would be 99% slamming him, and the idiotic 1% saying he is right.
    This is one thing we should note about liberals, they can’t handle the truth.

    God bless those that have fallen because of the religeon of peace.

  • gr29az

    Amen !

  • publious

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1Yjk1P-RY

  • pantera

    When will krugmans chickens come home to roost?

  • http://pocketchangeproductions.net/ anotherindyfilmguy

    It shows we’re still a relatively free nation.

    In one sentence he self illustrates how liberalism has been poisoned by a hundred years or so of anti-American propaganda/infiltration during the cold war of communism versus everyone else.

    But then again some might use Krugman’s posting as an excuse to say that we let the insane run free in America as an illustration of how cheap we are instead of paying to get them good medical care etc…

  • roryfreedom

    for spotlighting this despicable man.

  • Green_Lantern

    3 posts now, some of which were probably in violation of various statutes. This is a practice I have used in business emails as well, as I am a very reactive-type person. Writing the posts really does get things off my chest.

    What I’m left with, for those of you angered by Paul Krugman’s comments this morning, is this:

    Have you ever found yourself in an argument with a child, and said to yourself “I am arguing with a child.”? We are in the same territory here. One of the reasons a child is “childish” is because they have no real experience to draw upon. The same can be said of Mr.Krugman. He is not like you and I. He does not have the real-life experience that we do. But like a child, he does not realize what is right and wrong. A child, however, is taught those things from her parents and her community. Alas, Mr. Krugman is surrounded only with people who mostly share his lack of real life experience. And being of adult age, it is too late to teach him.

    Knowing that really mitigates the bite of his “column” today. Yet I still want to lash out. But for me, knowing that he is constantly tormented with hatred and bile, despite being surround by people of like mind is revenge enough. I am, after all, living well with my happy family.

    And thank God I have the opportunity to do that. It is enough.

  • WarEagle01

    I just hope Americans wake up soon and realize that these are the America-hating fools they elected to run the country in 2008. God help us if they don’t.

  • lineholder

    and world view of a lot of liberals. Not all of them, perhaps, but a significant number of them do think this way.

    Their loyalty to an agenda always comes first. Even on a day such as today which should be spent in simple remembrance of the events that occurred ten years ago, from their world view, the end still justifies the means. And if they can make use of events that took place ten years ago to try to shame American citizens into conformance to their Utopian socialistic ideals, then that’s exactly what they’ll try to do.

  • tailfins1959

    It was said in the war on terror that you are either for us or against us. I guess this puts Krugman in the against column.

  • sayoung80913

    and one who also used to be an adviser for the now famous ENRON. So yeah-clearly he has no sense of decency. They jailed most of the criminals from the Enron scandal but the NYT hired one to write trash like this and pass it off as enlightened journalism. TOO BAD an ivy league education can’t endow you with a brain or common sense.

  • Jack_Savage

    And so are most liberals. In their hearts, they know it.

    The reason the first responders were prepared was because of a real leader like Bernie Kirik. The reason New York came together and came back was because of a real leader like Rudy Guiliani. And the reason that Al Qaeda has been reduced to sending secret press releases chiseled in dried goat dung from squalid caves is because of a real leader like George W. Bush.

    Any shame felt should be felt on the left. How they tried to make the wars failures in order to gain a political advantage. How they withdrew support from an Iraq war that was justified, and for which they all voted. How by withdrawing that support the war was prolonged and so many, many more died as a result. How they railed against everything that George Bush put in place to fight terror, then left it as-is when they had all the power to do something about it. How they try so hard to reduce 9/11 to a “man-caused disaster”, only to have us all look at the footage again and realize how puny. and pathetic, and worthless they all are.

    Shame indeed, Krugman. Shame on you.

  • Green_Lantern

    France’s Vichy Government was populated with “men” like Krugman. These are people who would stand by idly while their friends and neighbors were rounded up for execution. That is, if he wasn’t already working for the executioners.

  • c0m0i

    Everyone, please don’t leave your comments here where the NY Times will never see them…

    Click on the link to Krugman’s story, go to the bottom and click on “Contact Us” Then look for “For a possible correction, or to reach the Web site’s editorial staff, you can send an e-mail.” The word “e-mail” at the end of the sentence is a link to their staff.

    PLEASE send them an email…

    Selective free speech is NOT free speech!! Ask them to allow comments…

  • c0m0i

    This is from the email they sent me…

    EDITORIALS: News and opinion departments operate separately at The Times. If you have written to comment on an editorial or an Op-Ed article and want your comments considered for publication as a Letter to the Editor, please resend your message to letters@nytimes.com More information on submitting letters can be found at nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/lettertoeditor.html

    So there you have it…the email address for the editorial staff…

  • aesthete

    because of the tasteless and cynical way in which he wrote about the subject in several articles mere days after it occurred.

  • aesthete

    “Most liberals” don’t have Krugman’s cynicism or tastelessness when it comes to 9/11. I have plenty of liberal friends and family, and plenty of friends and family who lived in NYC (there’s a lot of overlap in those categories). The vast majority of Democrats and liberals see 9/11 as a day of tragedy — not a day to score cheap political points. The same goes for most conservatives. If you want to point out leftist hypocrisy or silliness on foreign policy, that’s fine. Keep in mind that, by invoking a shared national tragedy to do so, you’ve become no better than the Krugmans of the world who feel the need to find political opponents on a day of mourning.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

  • The_Gadfly

    as an inside the beltway gaffe: in this instance, a liberal telling the truth about how they really think, but against which all PR spinners would advise saying.

    I didn’t watch much as 9/11 happened. Our IT department was buried in problems from multiple bad decisions about moving to our offices. So for me as everyone else was stopping work to watch the tvs we were asked to setup in multiple conference rooms, it was a chance to catch up on the reams of call tickets that had been piling up and try to get stock of how to begin to address them. I did watch that night when I got home, and what I saw sickened me. I saw email going back and forth with friends, some of whom were saying that for as horrible as it was, it had at least brought us all together as Americans and we had set politics aside. I didn’t believe it, but I also knew I would be derided as small minded if I said anything, so I kept my mouth shut. Krugman’s column merely confirms that I was correct.

  • lineholder

    Yeah, I have a soft spot in my heart for Herman Cain, but I think the content of this brief video, where Herman sings “God Bless America” in memoriam of 9/11/01 is such a stark contrast of what we are seeing from the likes of Krugman that I just wanted to pass this bit of inspiration on.

  • Michael Dugas

    he picks 9/11 to print such BS. It’s ok to be wrong, hell even I was wrong…once. But to not even have the sensitivity to NOT publish such garbage on the anniversary of said national tragedy is inexcusable. And who gave this guy the title Conscience of the Liberal? Talk about self glossing! You NEVER give YOURSELF a nickname…I say we change it to Un-Conscience Liberal…much more fitting.

  • Jack_Savage

    I will wait for the chorus of liberals who disavow Krugman’s comments tomorrow before I believe your heartfelt defense.

    Save your “whoas” for Krugman, or Code Pink, or John Kerry, or “screw’em, they were mercenaries” Kos, or Olbermann, or “let’s take the sons of bitches out” Hoffa, or whatever idiot lefty said that the “real enemies” are the Tea Party, or the American Traitor Jane Fonda who protested on Bob Hope’s lawn because he entertained troops during the Vietnam War. As I think about it, you really have saved a lot of “whoas” regarding these people, because I haven’t seen them.

    At their very best, liberals are of the “I love America, but…” category. I allowed for that possibility in my first sentence. At the worst, they secretly – or not so secretly – believe what Krugman wrote. I will leave it to you to poll your friends. I have lots of acquaintances who are liberal as well, and I stand by my post.

    Have the last word, and tsk tsk until your eyes bug out. I have better things to do than argue with you about moral equivalency. Like watch the replay of people jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center, then trying to explain to my children why Barack Obama and liberals believe KSM should be tried in an American court. Ask your friends about that, while you are at it.

  • Jack_Savage

    Thank you.

  • JSobieski

    who lives in your neighborhood has a normal job vs. the kind of hard core leftists like Krugman.

    Lefists in the MSM, government, etc. are a different breed of person than the autoworker, teacher, etc. who voted for Obama.

    Most of the people Aesthete is talking about don’t read the NYT, but if they did, they would say the guy is nuts.

    Keep in mind that the firefighters and police officers of NYC are on balance liberal. How many conservative union members live that close to NYC?

    Not all liberals are Code Pink Liberals.

  • runner12

    empathy or conscience. To use a tragedy to attack political opponents and in so doing defame the people who helped lead us through this time is an insult to the victims of 9/11 and their families.

    Mr. Krugman just hit an all time low, and for him that is saying a lot. I wonder if the NYT will do anything though, for all we know they agree with him.

    Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

  • Jack_Savage

    As far as your definition of “liberal” goes, the people you are speaking of are well-meaning, uninformed moderates, who vote for Democrats because their Daddy did, and joined the union because you have to in order to keep your job. More and more, however, they bear responsibility for giving power to the Obamas and Krugmans of this world, and the time is nearing when they need to be held to account.

    They bear as much responsibility as Krugman for Obama and the leftists who are in Congress and in the White House. They all had exactly one vote.

  • westcoastpatriette

    I like Cain, too, and the video brought more tears as we mourn this solemn day.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    and that is no matter what he says, since his opinions shift with the tied, nevertheless, whatever he happens to believe today, they agree with.

  • gekster

    via drudge:

  • gekster

    Not.

  • FlyingTigress

    … a mental disorder, but a ideological “home” in which mentally-disordered individuals can gather.

    Like physical locations: Seattle, Portland, to name two cities, provide. Asylums where their disorders are the “norm” and can be freely expressed.

    I could read but a few sentances of PK’s screed before I felt like vomiting in response. Truly an evil little man, and, ironically, making – as noted – the gaffe of showing the world the rot that exists inside his soul.

  • Bill S

    .

  • eddiethegeek

    Krugman, it appears to me, is having a breakdown and is losing touch with reality. He really needs to get help. Seriously.

    But it’s not hard to figure out why. His entire life’s work is being repudiated daily on the political theatre of Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland) and now in Washington D.C. What’s he got left? His meaningless Nobel Prize. I’d go insane too if my entire life’s work were to be proven meaningless and even wrong.

  • tanstaafl1019

    One of my liberal friends posted much the same sentiment on Facebook Sunday. A few people took him to task and were flamed for their efforts; sadly, several of his liberal friends hit the “like” button.