Paul Krugman is Deranged

September 11, 2011

Paul Krugman calls the anniversary for 9/11 “an occasion for shame” because the president and mayor of New York City at the time were Republicans, and did what people expected them to do. Not only is Paul Krugman deranged, he’s also a coward for not allowing anyone to leave a comment about his angry little rant.

What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. Te atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.
A lot of other people behaved badly. How many of our professional pundits — people 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?

He went on to say he was not allowing comments “for obvious reasons.”

H/T The Blaze

Update: Funny, isn’t it, how Krugman didn’t seem to have a problem with the “jubilant Palestinians” who celebrated the attacks of September 11, and who would love nothing more than a replay.

Update 2: Another deranged progressive commemorates 9/11 by reviving calls for war crimes charges against officials in the Bush administration.

Update 3: Political Byline and The Pirate’s Cove linked.

Update 4: From the Desk of Lady Liberty linked – thanks. Also, be sure to check out American Power’s latest post on the post-9/11 debates.

Tags: 9/11, George Bush, Paul Krugman, Rudy Giuliani

23 Responses to Paul Krugman is Deranged

dinkiedow on September 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Paul Krugman,Scribbles once again on the N.Y.Times Double Roll.Hanging on every N.Y.C.Bathroom Wall.
Krugmans claim to Fame is that he requires the Big Roll in order to cover his Crap!!
As Anti-American as one could get.The New Your Times.Prints The Secrets Of Our Nation.
The Names Of Our Under Cover Finest
Under Minds Our Bravest Soldiers
Tags our Patriots as Terrorist!
Is There No Shame at the N.Y.Times.This Anti-American Toilet Paper
Stocked Piled High In Our White House To Wipe The Lips Of Our Anti-American President Who wouldn’t know the Truth had He tripped upon them.
Like Barack Hussein Obama,{“Paul Krugman”}Let His Alligator Mouth Over Come His Humming Bird Donkey!!
In Making Good Use Of The New York Times Double Roll Lets Wipe These Asses Out Of The Spot Light!!
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- richard on September 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm
  Krugman is right. The response of the administration was a grave mistake. In my opinion, there should have been no Patriot Act & no Homeland Security department. The CIA, who had been bungling the job of finding Bin Laden, in part due to their culture of non cooperation with the FBI & NSA (they are implicated in so many errors regarding the 911 attacks it’s pathetic), not the military, should have been the primary tool of choice in bringing Bin Laden to justice. In the end it amounted to that anyway, it wasn’t the war effort that took out Bin Laden.
  I despise the Taliban but regime change (which after 10 years is still unsuccessful) at the cost of trillions was a mistaken policy decision.
  As for Krugman’s silence on the jubilant Palestinian response to 911. Two things: 1) Not mentioning something is not the same as condoning it, and 2) The footage of the “jubilant Palestinians” was not taken after 911, it was actually prior to 911. It was propaganda meant to incite.
  So you are misinformed and your opinion, which you are entitled to, is fortunately in the minority.
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zorro on September 11, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Maybe if you would remember that Krugman won a Nobel Prize you would treat him with more respect. What’s the matter with you?
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- Bob Kidera on September 11, 2011 at 8:05 pm
  So he won a Nobel prize. So did Yasser Arafat. The Peace Prize, no less. Need I say more?
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Laurence Burris on September 11, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I think you hit it on the head saying that Paul “Crazy” Krugman is out of touch with the American people who are doing all they can to do the right thing, be good citizens, take care of their families and help others. Crazy Krugman is so enamoured with his supposed “intellectual eliteism” that if his economic will totally undermine this country’s progress out of this economic mire.
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IM on September 11, 2011 at 1:52 pm
USA! USA! USA!
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Don Smith on September 11, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I hope you don’t mind…but I sent this to the NY Times today…
Good morning:
On Sunday, Sept. 11, the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 I read Paul Krugman’s hit piece where
he referred to “Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W.
Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated
war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons.”
My question was, if Mr. Krugman is so proud and stands behind his opinion, why did he end
the piece with “I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious
reasons.”? This is cowardly. His story was nothing more than a cheap shot. On a day
meant to unite people, “The New York Times” has shown that the “Mighty
Gray Lady” has become a urine soaked invalid in the final stages of life trapped in
a forsaken nursing home.
Had Mr. Krugman put this up on Saturday or Monday it would not have the same bite as it
does today, which shows his true intentions.
The “Times” and Krugman are both unpatriotic and disgusting.
Regards,
Don Smith
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Perhaps It’s Time To Simply Ignore The NY Times » Pirate's Cove on September 11, 2011 at 2:09 pm
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Donald Douglas on September 11, 2011 at 2:12 pm
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Thanks for the link. Krugman is truly deranged. It’s kind of sad too, he’s a talented economist. What a waste.
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- michael on September 11, 2011 at 4:34 pm
  What’s odd is that his economics increasingly serves his rabid leftist partisanship, rather than informing it. He knows, or once knew, what he writes on economics topics to be BS. But leftism is more important to him, giving rationalization for distortion of economics and history.
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andy42302 on September 11, 2011 at 2:20 pm
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Krugman’s points, like em or not, will keep coming up for an eternity. The Iraq war will have a cloud of misleading doubt forever and possibly while unlikely , the day may come for a full investigation.
There’s very little about the lead up to the invasion that makes a great deal of sense to anyone of reasonable intellect. One argument was that we had to “fight them there” so we wouldn’t have to “fight them here” which defies logic. Considering that “they” (which was an ideology; hence “terrorist” and not a structure enemy) had no army, navy, or air force, it’s hard to imagine “they”, in unity, would hop a transcontinental flight to “fight us in our streets”. Or maybe the concept was that as long as we provided fresh young bodies, that would somehow satisfy their perverted blood lust and prevent a need to “fight us here”? It never was fully explained.
Another area of fear exploitation was the snake oil salesmanship of the evils of Saddam, using the SOTUA to invoke “rape rooms” as a justification for invading. But at that same exact time in history, the president was perfectly content with the Janjaweed running rampant in Sudan, raping at will and pulling babies from screaming mother’s arm to toss them in bond fires. It got to the point that the elderly would send their daughters out for firewood as they would only be raped and their nose cut off to be sent back home in shame where as the sons would be promptly killed.
The justifications will forever be questioned. And those questions will have merit on many fronts.
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- Demise on September 11, 2011 at 8:17 pm
  Progressives fail to understand the strategic advantage being in Iraq had for the United States during this time, and I’m not about to try and convince you other wise today.
  Just remember one thing………….
  Its the economy and your champion is going down……just like YOU and your progressive cronies took GWB down for his policies, Obama is going down for his.
  Progressives did everything they could to “PATRIOTICALLY” destroy the presidency of GWB and then the “ONE” steps into office condemning every policy of Bush/Cheney and then………..????
  !!!! embraces them as his own!!!!
  Just like the “ONE” kept GWB’s tax cuts in place. Just like the “ONE” has gitmo still open. Just like the “ONE” is killing INNOCENT civilians with drone strikes. Just like the “ONE” surged in Afghanistan. Just like the “ONE” ordered up tribunals for terrorists. Just like the “ONE” gets all kinds of funding from big business. Just like the “ONE” is GWB lite.
  But we dont see the progressives trying to destroy the Obama presidency….just grumbling, bellyaching and complaining about what hes doing……
  Why thats pretty similar to a LOT of us on the right who bellyached, complained and griped about what Bush was doing when he was in office…..
  but of course you never hear that…..you only hear that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US was adorers of GWB and his policies….
  Yep…just like every progressive is enamored by the polices of Obama.
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  - andy42302 on September 11, 2011 at 9:00 pm
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    Demise, Bush “went down” as a result of his own failed policies. If Obama goes down, it will also be due to Bush’s failed policies by not being able to rise above the ashes of those failed policies. Voters seem to expect miracles.
    If you haven’t noticed, Obama has received plenty of grief from the left as well as the right. The reason you “dont see the progressives trying to destroy the Obama presidency” is because we understand the alternative. We saw 8 years of Bush take a vibrant economy, a budget surplus, 23 million job creation, and an expected debt free nation within 10 years and literally crash it to the ground. And we’re seeing and hearing from the right and their teabagger friends ambitions of ending minimum wages and overtime pay, ending Medicare and Social Security, repealing child labor laws, their all out assault on workers, not to mention deregulating the EPA in order to let corporations have a free pass to dump toxic waste in the rivers at will. And we’re seeing and hearing more and more about increasing taxes on the middle class while actually trying to annihilate taxes altogether for the ultra rich. We saw them hold our economy hostage and even seeing them hold storm victim hostage in order to advance their political agenda that they could never ever advance through normal legislation.
    So while many progressives may not be overly thrilled with Obama’s handling of certain issues, we do understand how destructive the GOP can be, even in peace time and even when the economy is in great shape. A vote for today’s GOP is simply a vote for Plutocracy, something that I just can’t vote for, and won’t vote for.
    But back to Krugman’s post. Yes, Bush, Cheney, et al certainly did exploit the atrocity and cashed in big time. In more ways than 1.
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    - Demise on September 12, 2011 at 7:58 am
      NO Bush went down because progressives like you screamed 10000000000000000000000000000000000 times that BUSH is Hitler and Bush is EVIL until the people believed it.
      http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612
      Now my point was THOSE POLICIES that you HATED…are the very ones that OBAMA ADOPTED…….
      I would laugh if there was anything funny in it at all. Obama is going down in 2012 because his policies are PROVEN to be failures…..
      Bush’s on the other hand………HAVE BEEN EMBRACED by a progressive democratic president and his administration.
      I rest my case.
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      - andy42302 on September 12, 2011 at 9:03 am
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        Demise, regardless of how you want to spin it, Bush’s 8 years proved to be an abject failure and plagued with cronyism and incompetence as well as an assault on the middle class while coddling the poor.(if that’s a run on sentence, sorry) What we were left with was the most obstructive GOP in history, unwilling to except any compromise-even when given what they wanted. There’s a huge difference in dealing with the party of “no” when the country is burning than there is in “embracing” their policies.In many ways, the accusations that dealing with the GOP is like dealing with terrorist is quite correct. Caving to the GOP’s demands is not embracing their policies.
        I’ve said many times that the problem with today’s government is that the GOP is pushing for a plutocracy and the Democrats have no spine.
        Do I agree with Obama caving on extending tax cuts for the wealthy? No. And for many other policies, I am disappointed as well, as are others.
        But let me explain this again for fear you misunderstood. I understand the consequences if the GOP gains power.
        Regardless of how you want to play it, Bush took a strong economy and crashed it. He and his GOP lapdogs started a very expensive and unneeded war only to unprecedentedly push lower taxes in the process. They proceeded to spend like drunken sailors. He kept his last year floating by pushing just enough tax payer funds to keep the auto makers and banks breathing until he could duck out. And you guys are still screaming bloody murder because Obama and the Dems were faced with dealing with that. And then we were left with an unyielding GOP who has admitted over and over again that their only mission is to defeat Obama, even at the expense of the country.
        Don’t misconstrue Obama’s efforts of trying to minimize the damage of the GOP wild elephants as “embracing their policies”.
        Also, when people overwhelming deliver a message in mass numbers, it usually means they have a point. When an umpire or a comedian gets booed from both sides in large numbers, generally there’s something wrong with the call or joke.
        So when you tell me that Bush went down because people screamed “10000000000000000000000000000000000″ times that BUSH was evil, etc, well maybe there’s something to that.
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Donald Douglas on September 11, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Linked: ‘Progressives Shame the Country on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11′.
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Terry on September 11, 2011 at 5:23 pm
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I don’t get some of these comments and this blog posts negative attitude towards him, when Krugman was right on some points. Bush did use 9/11 to attack a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. All of their evidence was conclusively proven false. BUSH HIMSELF APOLOGIZED! Hell, Bill O’Reilly apologized, ON HIS OWN SHOW! The ‘evidence’ wasn’t concrete, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and the War was fought under the pretense of them being there, and Saddam having a conclusive link to the Taliban / Bin Laden.
Why are you people forgetting this? Bush admin’ was a major failure when it came to intelligence collecting. It repeatedly ignored evidence of 9/11 coming about. It collected false evidence from prisoners under torture (which rarely if ever works), and it linked the TALIBAN to IRAQ and SADDAM.
SADDAM. You know, the guy who invaded Kuwait? THE SAME GUY WHO BIN LADEN WANTED TO STOP FROM INVADING KUWAIT?
Yeesh.
Now, was it in bad taste on this day? Yes. It was. He could of waited till later. But, please, don’t let history repeat itself. Don’t ever let another politician send us in a useless war, under pretense of protecting our safety, from a threat that isn’t even there. We can’t handle it anymore.
Stop protecting Bush’ when he clearly did wrong, and even apologized for it.
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im4yu on September 11, 2011 at 5:52 pm
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So, this is where the wingnuts congregate? “The Lonely
Conservative” is a very aptly named site. The question is, why are the conservatives so “lonely”? Surely it not their wacked out 19th century ideology. Perhaps, it’s their irrational longing for wanting to go backwards into the future that makes them so loony, excuse me, “lonely”. Well, at least, the site is good for a laugh for thinking people.
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Fenway_Nation on September 11, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Lets not forget that this is the same New York Times that ran a puff piece on Weather Underground alumni William Ayers on the morning of September 11, 2001. Pretty telling http://is.gd/aSgOWt
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wkrp_in_cincy on September 12, 2011 at 7:31 am
In reality, if I was ever to see him on the street, I would have to give him a beat down. The 6 days in the Pokey would be well worth it. Disgusting, slimy Douche Nozzle!
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The Morning Links (9/12) | From the Desk of Lady Liberty on September 12, 2011 at 8:31 am
[...] in’. Pardon me folks for the profanity, but Mr. Krugman you are an asshole. He is deranged and I am appalled. If his own don’t call him out on this, especially given his zeal after Tuscon then they are [...]
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KSH on September 12, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Ron Paul Agrees with Krugman.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/09/11/never-forget/
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