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Paul Krugman

• November 9 -- Hard Cheese for Krugman After Bush's Win

• November 5 -- Krugman Celebrates Voters -- Before the Election, Anyway
Columnist Paul Krugman sounds bereft: "President Bush isn't a conservative. He's a radical -- the leader of a coalition that deeply dislikes America as it is….thanks to a heavy turnout by evangelical Christians, Mr. Bush has four more years to advance that radical agenda." But just last week he was smitten with the dignity of voting and "choked up" over the heavy turnout.

• November 3 -- Wednesday Morning Quarterbacking NYT's Pro-Dem Hints
Some of the Times' more optimistic pro-Democratic stories didn't pan out.

• November 2 -- Florida's Black Voters "Intimidated" by Long Lines?
Paul Krugman works in nasty accusations about Republican voter suppression of minorities in Florida: "Over the weekend, people in some polling places had to stand in line for four, five, even six hours, often in the hot sun. Some of them -- African-Americans in particular -- surely suspected that those lines were so long because officials wanted to make it hard for them to vote."

• October 22 -- Over 300 Electoral Votes for Kerry, Says Krugman
Kerry's on track for a convincing Electoral College victory, says Paul Krugman.

• August 10 -- Bush-Hating Krugman: "It Scares Me Sometimes How Blind People Are."
Times columnist (and professional Bush-basher) Paul Krugman gives interviews to a couple of left-wing groups--and free reign to his Bush hate.

• July 30 -- Krugman Sees Pro-Bush Media Bias
Paul Krugman accuses the media of pro-Bush bias: "…we're supposed to dislike Mr. Kerry simply because he's wealthy (and not notice that his opponent is, too). Republicans, of all people, are practicing the politics of envy, and the media obediently go along."

• July 2 -- Moore Krugman?
Paul Krugman, who is sounding more and more Michael Moore-like, becomes the second Times columnist in two days to praise "Fahrenheit 9/11."

• June 8 -- Using and Abusing Reagan's Memory, Part II
Paul Krugman finds something nice to say about Ronald Reagan.

• May 28 -- Paul Krugman Takes on "Tyranny of Evenhandedness"
Paul Krugman's latest column is a broadside against the "tyranny of evenhandedness" that makes liberal journalists say nice things about conservatives.

• May 18 -- Krugman Morphs Into Anti-War Kucinich
Columnist Paul Krugman joins the left-wing cut-and-run brigade in Iraq: "The cries of 'stay the course' are getting fainter, while the calls for a quick exit are growing….lost prestige is better than ruin."

• May 11 -- Abu Ghraib = My Lai, Again
Now it's Krugman's turn.

• April 16 -- Iraq Worse Than Vietnam; Budget-Balancing LBJ?
Paul Krugman doesn't think Iraq is Vietnam--in some ways, it's worse. Plus, budget-balancing LBJ?

• March 24 -- Fleischer Rebuts Krugman
Ari Fleischer responds to Paul Krugman, who accused the former White House press secretary of warning people "to accept the administration's version of events, not ask awkward questions" after Fleischer said "Americans need to watch what they say" after 9-11.

• February 13 -- Bush's "Cult of Personality"
Krugman asks: What the heck is wrong with you people?

• February 2 -- Left-Wing Novel As "Ferocious" As Paul Krugman
High praise indeed.

• January 20 -- The "Sinister" Judge Pickering
Paul Krugman goes even further than the Times editorial page in linking Judge Charles Pickering with racism.

• January 2 -- Krugman Warns Dems: Don't Be Mean to Dean
Columnist Krugman's pro-Dean "advice" to Democrats has the clammy feel of an indoctrination session: "First, while it's O.K. for a candidate to say he's more electable than his rival, someone who really cares about ousting Mr. Bush shouldn't pre-emptively surrender the cause by claiming that his rival has no chance….More important, a Democrat shouldn't say anything that could be construed as a statement that Mr. Bush is preferable to his rival." Krugman doesn't bring up actions by Dean himself that strike some Democrats as disloyal.

• December 29 -- Shut Up, Krugman Explained
In the spirit of holiday generosity, columnist Paul Krugman deigns to give reporters something he clearly places premium value on--his opinion: "President Bush has turned this country sharply to the right, and this election will determine whether the right's takeover is complete. But will the coverage of the election reflect its seriousness? Toward that end, I hereby propose some rules for 2004 political reporting."

• December 16 -- The First Refuge of a Scoundrel
Accusing Republicans of slandering Democrats as unpatriotic is one of Paul Krugman's favorite pieces of anti-conservative boilerplate, and his latest attempt is particularly strained.

• December 12 -- Krugman's Latest Conspiracy Refuted--by the Times
Paul Krugman goes conspiratorial about Bush's decision to exclude countries who opposed the Iraq war from the rebuilding process: "Yes, Halliburton is profiteering in Iraq--will apologists finally concede the point, now that a Pentagon audit finds overcharging?" That's a reference to the subject of Times lead story--but the story disputes Krugman's claim.

• November 24 -- Krugman's Cover Story
David Kirkpatrick weighs in on the shockingly strident cover art gracing the British edition of Paul Krugman's collection of anti-Bush columns: "...the British book jacket bears caricatures of President Bush as Frankenstein-like and Vice President Dick Cheney with a Hitler mustache."

• November 7 -- Ignorant Mississippians for Bush
Paul Krugman accuses Republicans of racial tactics: "White Mississippi voters, unlike their counterparts up north, are still responding to Republican flag-waving--and it's not just the American flag that's being waved."

• November 4 -- Krugman Cuts off Nethercutt
Columnist Paul Krugman is the latest to pass along a skewed quote from Republican Rep. George Nethercutt.

• October 28 -- Krugman on the Defensive
Columnist Paul Krugman gets touchy in print over criticism of his recent column on Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, which even liberals saw as a too-easy dismissal of Mahathir's hateful anti-Jewish remarks.

• October 22 -- Christian General Biased, Notes Anti-Semitic PM
A Times editorial calls for the firing of Lt. Gen. William Boykin for remarks he made to a church group--and cites as credible criticism from Malaysia's anti-Jewish prime minister.

• October 14 -- Bush's Forbidden Love?
Paul Krugman outlines his paranoid view of Republicans: "They've decided that the way to win is to give Grover Norquist and the Heritage Foundation and John Ashcroft whatever they want." Also: "Can you imagine the Bush family allowing some member to marry a liberal Democrat?"

• September 17 -- Fanatical Tax-Cutters of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
“The Tax-Cut Con,” columnist Paul Krugman’s 7,000 word piece for the Sunday magazine, is a history of the modern-day tax-cutting movement as seen from Krugman’s skewed-to-the-left perspective: The advocates of tax cuts are relentless, even fanatical….Loosely speaking, that is, supply-siders work for the vast right-wing conspiracy.”

• August 22 -- Krugman the Inexplicable
Paul Krugman’s “Conan The Deceiver” tries to defend California Gov. Gray Davis: “Although news reports continue, inexplicably, to talk about a $38 billion deficit, the projected gap for next year is only $8 billion.” It’s not “inexplicable.” It’s in the governor’s own budget for 2003-2004, and Davis said the same thing months ago.

• August 13 -- Gen. Clark Chides Krugman’s Faulty Quote
Gen. Wesley Clark chides columnist Paul Krugman for inaccurately quoting him regarding a call he received urging him to link 9-11 to Saddam Hussein: “No one from the White House asked me to link Saddam Hussein to Sept. 11.”

• August 8 -- I Am Bush, Destroyer of Worlds
…says the latest op-ed by Paul Krugman. Stuck in permanent smarm mode, Krugman writes on the ruin of ancient Mesopotamia’s environment and concludes: “Will we avoid the fate of past civilizations that destroyed their environments, and hence themselves? And the answer is: not if Mr. Bush can help it.”

• August 1 -- Krugman’s Dubious Proposition
Paul Krugman’s op-ed on California’s massive deficit absolves Democratic Gov. Gray Davis of blame and instead fingers the 25-year-old tax-limiting measure Proposition 13, which he claims “led to a progressive starvation of California's once-lauded public schools.”

• June 30 -- Bob Herbert, Living In Oblivion
Bob Herbert blames it all on Bush: “There's a reason those campaign millions keep coming and coming and coming [to Bush]. A Times article last week noted that the wealthiest 400 taxpayers accounted for more than 1 percent of all the income in the United States in 2000, more than double their share just eight years earlier.” But the Times article measures income inequality during 1992-2000. Who was president back then?

• June 25 -- Paul Krugman, Subtle As Ever
Columnist Paul Krugman is in fine fanatical fettle: “There is no longer any serious doubt that Bush administration officials deceived us into war. The key question now is why so many influential people are in denial, unwilling to admit the obvious.”

• May 30 -- The Krugman Crack-Up Continues
Krugman’s column “Waggy Dog Stories” is a collection of leftist conspiracy-mongerings worthy of Michael Moore.

• May 27 -- The Krugman Crack-Up
Conspiracy-mongering columnist Paul Krugman accuses the Bush administration of being out to wreck the American economy: “The people now running America aren't conservatives: they're radicals who want to do away with the social and economic system we have, and the fiscal crisis they are concocting may give them the excuse they need.”

• May 16 -- Bush Policy “Did the Terrorists a Favor”
Much-criticized columnist Paul Krugman has stopped talking down Bush’s tax plan in order to bash Bush’s terrorism strategy—with about equal effectiveness.

• May 6 -- Touchy, Touchy
Times columnists Paul Krugman and Nicholas Kristof today both act hurt over critical mail from conservatives. If you can’t take the heat…

• April 25 -- Krugman’s Persecution Complex
Columnist Krugman: “Claiming that those who don't support tax cuts are somehow unpatriotic is not an answer.” Who’s he talking about?

• April 15 -- Krugman’s Non-Existent “Cuts”
Paul Krugman twice accuses House Republicans of cutting veterans’ benefits. But the VA’s budget will increase from $26.9 billion to $34.1 billion under the Bush plan. Wasn’t Krugman once a respected economist?

• March 25 -- Paul Krugman’s Fascist Fantasy
Bush-bashing columnist Paul Krugman caught a whiff of fascism at a pro-war rally: “To those familiar with 20th-century European history it seemed eerily reminiscent of….But as Sinclair Lewis said, it can't happen here.”