Paul Krugman of the New York Times is despicable. Today, he wrote:
A note to Tea Party activists: This is not the movie you think it is. You probably imagine that you’re starring in “The Birth of a Nation,” but you’re actually just extras in a remake of “Citizen Kane.”
CNN’s Rick Sanchez got fired for calling Jon Stewart a bigot but Krugman is huzzahed for calling Tea Partiers Klansmen.
(For those who don’t know the movie “Birth of a Nation” is a silent movie where the Klan is portrayed as heroes.)
And for those uninterested in doing the math, a recent poll indicated that 30% of Americans support the Tea Party. So yeah, The New York Times columnist just called 30% of Americans Klansmen. Weird to think that the New York Times is in so much trouble, huh?
Don’t even bother reading the rest of the Krugman piece because it’s really stupid in that its thesis is that the evil Rupert Murdoch is pulling all the strings of the Republican Party because he has Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum as paid analysts.
October 4, 2010 at 6:35 pm
AND…for those who don't know….Woodrow Wilson regularly viewed "Birth of a Nation" while he was in the WHite House.
October 4, 2010 at 6:44 pm
I read this to my wife. Her immediate reaction was, "If it's a choice between a white sheet and a burka, I'd rather be called a racist".
I almost blew Dr Pepper out of my nose!
October 4, 2010 at 8:09 pm
teaxn: texan to texan, let me say that your comment is the best line to date. gonna link it in my blog tomorrow.
October 4, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Well, ya now Santorum is a devout Catholic, I'm thinking The Pope must be in league with Fox news.
October 4, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Linking this post tomorrow! thanks for the laugh via comments!
October 4, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Paul Krugman is the supreme authority on domestic politics. If he says it, it is right. He won the Nobel Prize … Paul Krugman is the living embodiment of Catholic Social Teaching.
October 4, 2010 at 9:04 pm
So did Paul Krugman write that, or is that one his wife's enlightened musings?
October 5, 2010 at 12:47 am
I wouldn't say all 30% of the teabaggers are klanmen, but a good percentage. Did you see those people at the Washington march. Many looked like inbreds from the south.
October 5, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Krugman , like his employer,
has become irrelevant.
October 5, 2010 at 11:08 pm
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October 7, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Wow, Anthony. I sure hope that post was a spoof, because you hit all the points wonderfully.
"teabaggers": sexual term used as a pejorative to describe Tea Party supporters
"looked like inbreds": judgement based on appearance alone.
"from the south": prejudicial statement about people from the southeastern states.
Such a shining example of hypocrisy, judging others based on appearance, pigeonholing them into groups so as to mark them as "evil", while asserting, without proof, that they judge others based on appearance, must have been intentional.
October 11, 2010 at 2:57 am
Right On Matthew!!! And love Texan's wife's reaction!!
This whole Tea Party = KKK thing is just another attempt by big brother and big businesses to plant "OMG really" seeds in the minds of gullible U.S. citizens so they will continue to act as zombified sheep, to do what they say and without question line their pockets with taxpayers hard earned money.
I encourage EVERYONE to actually read the U.S. Constitution, wherein it states in 21st century lingo, more or less: a government will be formed to serve at the PEOPLES pleasure in order to protect their interests and rights as citizens. Not the other way around. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say We The People have a duty to the government to make them wealthy beyond their means. Nor does it state that We The People give up any right to tell the government what to do with our hard earned incomes or to question where its all going.
The U.S. Constitution DOES state, however, that WE THE PEOPLE have the right to shutdown the government if it is no longer serving within its bounds, means or guidelines. And if it is not acting in accordance with or on behalf of WE THE PEOPLE, who are the ones with actual FINAL say on every matter, then the can or may, in whole or in part, be shut down.
Instead, the government as we know it – regardless of party – has tricked us and bullied us into believing they are abiding by the rules and law of government as set out by legislature (not WE THE PEOPLE), which was set up in such a way that allows the government to take away the wills and RIGHTS of every single citizen of the United States of America by hook or crook, coercion or threat of bodily harm or incarceration if we should protest their actions.
It is my 2d amendment right to say unto you that our government is not and has not for a very long time, acted on my behalf or which serves in my best interest. Therefore, I am enforcing/invoking MY RIGHT to demand dismantlement of our very broken governmental system because I no longer like or agree with their accounting and explanations of who, what, when and where. And I strongly encourage all of you good citizens of this country to stand up for yourselves, your families, your rights and DEMAND actual change not finger pointing excuses.
Its time we ALL pay attention to the man behind the screen people. Those of you who dont…well, let me put it this way, regardless of which party you vote for come election time, you can expect More of Nothing…for which you will receive even less than what you are now, leaving all your future heirs in debt with no such thing as relief either monetarily, morally, judicially, or reasonably.
Power To The People!!
October 11, 2010 at 4:15 am
Excuse me, correction to my previous post:
In paragraph 5, I actually meant to refer to my 1st Amend. Right to Free Speech (I have 2d Amend. on the brain due to a Right to Bear Arms issues I just researched)
And I MUST – for my own reasons – state that the force behind the "Tea Party movement" is in accordance and compliance with the Declaration of Independence, NOT the KKK!!
Sorry…
October 16, 2010 at 7:17 am
Tea Party is truly the neo-KKK of the twenty-first century as they are instilling fear among the masses, and it is plain wrong and scary, especially how they mis-interpret the U.S. Constitution not to mention their candidates running for office: Angle, Odonnell…wow?! Even my dead grandmother is more competent than both of them combined. It is just a shame that the extreme conservatives are using rhetoric to get their corporate greed agenda across! By the way, I am a white male who practices civil rights law in Indiana, and I do understand my influence in society as I am at the top of the social order, so it is my job to re-influence other whites and blacks to work together in the middle.