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Paul Krugman: The Press Doesnt Know How To Handle Political Lies
SAHIL KAPUR 12:07 PM EDT, SUNDAY OCTOBER 7, 2012
On ABC's "This Week" roundtable Sunday, Paul Krugman said Mitt Romney is exploiting a press that is ineffective at holding politicians accountable for lies.
"The press just doesnt know how to handle flat-out untruths," he said.
"I dont know whether to blame [the debate moderator Jim] Lehrer or the president, but it was kind of amazing because Romney was not only saying things that are not true, he was saying things that his own campaign had previously said werent true, said the economist and New York Times columnist.
Citing Romney's claims on taxes and preexisting conditions, Krugman said the Republican nominee showed "contempt for us by thinking the news media will not cover on me as long as they say forcefully I won."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/paul-krugman-press-cant-handle-political-lies
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Mary Matalin Calls Paul Krugman A Liar For Telling The Truth
During a roundtable discussion on George Stephanoupolos This Week Sunday morning, GOP political consultant Mary Matalin got into a heated exchange with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, calling him a liar for previously referring to Paul Ryans Medicare reform plan as a voucher program:
MATALIN: You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration, to calling it a voucher plan, so youre hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/07/972441/mary-matalin-calls-paul-krugman-a-liar-for-telling-the-truth/?mobile=nc
grasswire
(50,130 posts)...and the media conglomerates!
Whisp
(24,096 posts)the one Tweety let have free air time for his idiotic spew and false accusations about fixed employment reports...
hmmm, doesn't GE have ownership in NBC, or did at one time. I think Matthews was just being polite to the raging lieing asshole because Matthews knows which side the butter lands up on his bread - on the GE side.
I'm still disgusted with him.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)He literally got away with murder.
RichGirl
(4,119 posts)When a politician lies they will say he "miss-spoke"! What the hell does that even mean? I'd like to see a kid get in trouble at school for lying, then telling the principal "sorry, I miss-spoke"!
longship
(40,416 posts)Like it would cost them for getting the whole context?
Shame on you, Josh, for not getting Krugman's answer, which I understand was devastating. (I dunno since nobody has posted the video; but it was reported here on DU, so I know it's true.)