Op-Ed Columnist - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com: "So Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and Karl Rove all claim that the financial crisis was a liberal conspiracy, generated either by evil mastermind Chuck Schumer or by wily journalists.
Why does such stuff flourish? Probably because there is no punishment for it — as long as you’re on the right, and I mean right, side. Let Michael Moore point out, entirely correctly, the close ties between the Saudis and the Bush family, and he’s blasted as a crazy conspiracy theorist. On the other hand, let Donald Luskin suggest, in 2004, that George Soros is planning to engineer a financial crisis to defeat Bush, and he gets to publish front-page articles in the Washington Post Outlook section declaring that there isn’t a recession."
I've often wondered about this. Rush and the clan routinely state falsehood, take statements out of context and flat out lie. Then are paid millions annually to do it. But, if some far out, never heard of, liberal says something a little on the loony side then all hell breaks loose and every liberal in the country is attacked by the right.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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