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The Top 10 Things Not To Say on 9-11: Paul Krugabe in Perspective

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  September 12th, 2011 at 12:45 PM  | 

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I sometimes get the impression that Paul Krugman expresses a partisan preference for the Democratic Party. The subtly and nuance flies right over my head some days; but I could just swear he’s not a fan of the whole Tea Party Movement or The GOP. Other days, I read Paul Krugabe and could just swear. His venomous, hatred-filled screed in honor of 9-11 was one of those instances.

9-11 hate-screeds are a guilty pleasure of the ideologically bizarre on both the far right and the moon-bat left. These nut-jobs hate to admit it, but they feel a certain schadenfreude over 9-11. The didactic, insane ideologue will occasionally let the mask slip and gloat a wee-bit over the US getting creamed by 19 Islamic terrorists.

In order to offer something Paul Krugman frequently neglects, I decided to put Krugman’s pathetic rant in perspective and rank it in comparison to other people’s ideological 9-11 hate screeds. Borrowing from David Letterman, I give you a Top Ten List of Things Not To Say in Honor of 9-11.

10) Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee demands the truth about Al-CIAda. Chafee, former Dallas Cowboys player Mark Stepnoski, and Rap-Artists Arrested Development all signed onto a petition in support of the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative demanding an independent investigation of the 9-11 attacks. They even went so far as to suggest that George W. Bush’s absence from DC that fateful morning made it a LIHOP.

9) Congressman Ron Paul offers us the following “insights” below.

“If you don’t do something, if you don’t give up your liberties and if you don’t invade this country, we’re all going to be blown up.” You know, so they have to terrorize us and build great fear that something terrible is going to happen to our country unless we sacrifice our liberties and go to war.”

(HT: Patriotsquestion911.com)

8. This disgusting T-shirt slogan. “9-11 was a faith-based initiative.”

7) Richard Trumka “commemorates” 9-11 in his unique and special fashion.

Wealthy CEOs, anti-government extremist front groups and frothing talk show hosts—from the Rush Limbaughs and Glenn Becks to the Koch brothers, Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, Americans for Prosperity, the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the American Legislative Exchange Council—also pushed open the door to hate.

6) Paul Krugabe’s Opus Magnum. Erick Erickson mines Krugabe’s intellectual sewage so that you don’t have to. The money quotes follow below:

“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.”

(Redstate.com)

5) Susan Sontag offers us her unique and charming perspective on the 9-11 suicide bombers versus the US military.

How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.

(HT: Colgate.edu)

4) Amiri Baraka offers us the beauty of poetry. He channels the hatred and anti-Americanism of Gil Heron below with his poem “Somebody Blew Up America.”

Who fount Bin Laden, maybe they Satan
Who pay the CIA,
Who knew the bomb was gonna blow
Who know why the terrorists
Learned to fly in Florida, San Diego

3) The “Reverend” Jerry Falwell describes how gender-bending and homosexuality justifies mass-murder. Falwell is just flat-out, bat-feke insane below.

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say “you helped this happen.”

(ActupNY)

2)The “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright disgraces Malcom X’s memory below.

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.

(HT: ABCnews.com)

1) “American Indian” Ward Churchill. What is it with the Malcolm X plagiarists? From his pathetic hate-screed. “On the Justice of Roosting CHickens.”

As for those in the World Trade Center… Well, really, let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire – the “mighty engine of profit” to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly….. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it

Wikipedia

People can voice fair disagreement about which hate-mongers are more hateful than Susan Sontag or Jerry Falwell. I totally get that, and am basically happy that each of these individuals has maundered off to their final reward. However, I think the list above effectively brackets that malicious mediocrity of Paul Krugman.

I dismiss this fool. He deserves to be criticized, but not too seriously, because he simply no longer rates as a serious individual. He can’t even crack the upper echelon of moon-battery. The hack can no longer cut it. That’s the best perspective in which to view the Former Economist now accurately known as Paul Krugabe.

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  • msctex

    . . .but priceless in a way. Whatever small fringe of Independent voters there still exists that wants to believe there is no real difference between the two parties and what they believe: I give you the broken mind of Paul Krugman. This guy offers a taste of how they talk amongst themselves when the doors are closed.

    Said it before, I’ll say it again: he is like a Rand character who was cut from AS for being too over-the-top. God, even the name is weirdly disconcerting, as though to “krug” meant to deny objective reality to the point of incoherence.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      He’s not even *good* over the top lefty. I actually thought he’d rank higher than 6th on my top 10, but I kept remembering and successfully Googling crazier (beep).

      What sucks, is that people like Krugtard and Trumka are just men in gray flannel suits these days. You just have to do better to rate as crazy.

  • msctex

    Once a certain point on the Crazometer is passed, yes, they all start to run together. And you can always find someone crazier than someone else. But I’d say Krugman has as bully a bully pulpit as the Left has to offer today. No one watches MSNBC, and if we could all make a pact to stop talking about Chris Matthews, Olbermann, etc., they would likely be gone in six month’s time. But the NYT is still taken seriously, if only by default. I am quite aware of the irony, but they are supposed to be better than this. This was that bad, in both content and the contemptible timing as well.

    • msctex

      Meant to answer above, dammit.

      • Repair_Man_Jack

        Krugabe lets a lot of people down. You make a good observation there. MIT, The NYT and The Nobel Committee are just 3 groups his bat-(beep) insanity damaged a touch yesterday.

        • aesthete

          and the work that he did when he was, you know, an actual, empirical economist (those were the days…)

          Hey, maybe if he went back to doing something productive, he would just be “that weird guy” who never goes out drinking with the rest of the office, talks about his cats, and muses that 9/11 was an inside job. I know that my quality of life would measureably improve if I found out that Krugman would be returning to MIT to work on international trade theory some more.

  • johnt

    The left wallows in it, just another reason for them loving Obama.
    Krugmen would be in 24 hour asylum lock up in a society healthier than ours. Mad & vicious, though he does have ample company.

  • rogerallan70

    Krugman disabled the comments to his vitriol for what he says were “obvious reasons”

    Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that just about everyone that commented would probably have told him to go to he_ _ .

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      He knew he stepping in it before he hit the send button. An honest blogger drops that sort of post by mistake!

  • cmrc

    Acidic writing like Krugman?s helps keep it all from becoming too alkaline. Fortunately, acid from Krugman neutralizes the moderate liberal base. What concerns me is the growing extremism, funding for and reach of the social media groups like Netroots. They are recruiting newly graduated and larval students at colleges and universities, who think changing society is cool and who nad a really great time on their trip to Europe last year. They have heard their liberal professors and their celebrity icons bask personal responsibility, conservatism and capitalism. Surf to Netroots? web site for more revealing developments.

  • Marcus_Traianus

    They speak in tongues to get elected and Krugman interprets their spew for the rabid masses.

    That ripping sound is the last few sane readers of the NYT tearing up their subscriptions. What a joke they have become. I will enjoy the schadenfreude when they go bankrupt.

    • Repair_Man_Jack

      As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carlos Slim, I assume Rumsfeld’s recent cancellation was just another brick in the wall.

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

    When you discus anything Krugman has written you have to say, are you referring to the sane, and quite respectable Nobel winning economist of the 1990′s, or the rabid dog left wing hack of post 2000?

    They are nearly the exact opposite of one another. Almost everything Krugman had written in the 1990′s he has since repudiated.

    • aesthete

      I 100% believe that his wife (a Democratic party operative — no, seriously) writes his columns, now. I’ve seen things like broken window fallacy, lack of awareness of basic economic concepts (like comparative advantage), and other tells far too often to believe that an economist of Krugman’s stature could have written them. Of course, it is always possible that he snapped with the Clinton impeachment; a lot of other smart liberals did, too. I sure wish that the old Kruggie was back, though: I still recommend a piece that he wrote about free trade to undergrads studying econ. I think I’m going to stop doing that as a matter of principle, though.