Krugman Gets It Spectacularly Wrong Again

As usual, former Enron advisor and current New York Times hack Paul Krugman doesn't let facts stand in the way of a hyperventilating screed.

In todays Times, the economist points out that all of us on the right are affected by Gore Derangement Syndrome, a malady apparently akin to Bush Derangement Syndrome that has been epidemic on the left for the last 6+ years. Let's parse some of Krugman's thoughts and prove just how inane they are and see who is really deranged.

What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?

Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.

Emphasis mine. Read that again, the Smartest Economist in America evidently hasn't read about the Electoral College, that new-fangled creation inserted into the Constitution that says that the man with the most electoral votes wins, not the one with the most popular votes. I guess Krugman was sick the day they taught that. I guess he also missed the story showing every conceivable recount would have shown Bush the winner. The "stain of illegitimacy" is a Krugman-made farce.

...The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.

Wrong! Gore is in error many more times than he's right. In fact, in the last week a judge in Briatain found nine cases of his fact-bending in his mockumentary An Inconvenient Truth. That's Michael Morresque in playing fast and loose with facts. As for the scientists who discovered the hole in the ozone layer winning the Nobel, we've pretty much established that the Nobel has lost any esteem it once had when it was presented to Arafat, Carter and al-Baradei so using it to show authority means nothing. If you want to read what a true authority says about the farce of global warming than read this.

As for Iraq, the war has not ended and as I wrote in the previous post, things may well play out well and in the favor of the US.

Climate change is, however, harder to deal with than acid rain, because the causes are global. The sulfuric acid in America’s lakes mainly comes from coal burned in U.S. power plants, but the carbon dioxide in America’s air comes from coal and oil burned around the planet — and a ton of coal burned in China has the same effect on the future climate as a ton of coal burned here. So dealing with climate change not only requires new taxes or their equivalent; it also requires international negotiations in which the United States will have to give as well as get.

You see how Krugman just assumes that global warming is man-made? He can do so because his readers believe it as gospel. To global warmingists, there are two certainties in the world today: global warming is the result of mankind and our gas-guzzling ways (regardless of the fact that the earth has been warming and cooling for billions of years) and the US is the worst nation in the world when it comes to contributing to carbon in the atmosphere. Both of those things are so ingrained in the closed liberal mind that they will never change their collective thinking on the issue regardlessof the facts presented to them. Also note how the economist in Krugman comes out and he always advocates taxes to solve national and global ills despite the fact that they have been proven time and again to cause more problems than they cure. It's knee-jerk with the good ex-Enron advisor.

Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible, than ever. And it drives them crazy.

Well let's see; Gore came from the Clinton camp and was involved in almost as much sleaze as the big guy. The Buddhist temple money scandal and myriad other ethical lapses in the Clinton Oval Office just means that his credibility and respect levels were at a nadir and could only have gone up. The fact that he was given a Nobel prize over a woman that saved 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust shows just what the Nobel Committee intended: to spite President Bush once again as they admitted when they presented Jimmy Carter his tarnished award. So to answer Krugman, Gore doesn't drive me crazy, he makes me embarrassed. I'm embarrassed that he accepted an award he was not deserving of and embarrassed that a man who once served as the Vice President of the greatest nation on Earth can get over on so many people knowing what he's shilling is not fact but a stylized fiction.