Newsmax: Krugman, Others Slam Newsweek's Ferguson

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/krugman-ferguson-newsweek-sullivan/2012/08/21/id/449297

Tuesday, 21 Aug 2012 04:58 PM

By Henry J. Reske

Newsweek’s eyebrow-raising cover story on President Barack Obama headlined, “Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President," is coming under fire from “liberal bloggers” questioning conclusions reached and facts presented.

Author and historian Niall Ferguson has been savaged in postings by Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, in a lengthy fact check by the Atlantic magazine, Andrew Sullivan and writers from Slate, Salon, and Mother Jones among others.

In a post of his own on The Daily Beast, Ferguson attributes the ire to “liberal bloggers.”

“My critics have three things in common,” he wrote. “First, they wholly fail to respond to the central arguments of the piece. Second, they claim to be engaged in ‘fact checking,’ whereas in nearly all cases they are merely offering alternative (often silly or skewed) interpretations of the facts. Third, they adopt a tone of outrage that would be appropriate only if I had argued that, say, women’s bodies can somehow prevent pregnancies in case of ‘legitimate rape.’

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