Krugman; Gore Derangement Syndrome

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?ref=opinion

On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.

And at National Review Online, Iain Murray suggested that the prize should have been shared with “that well-known peace campaigner Osama bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s stance.” You see, bin Laden once said something about climate change — therefore, anyone who talks about climate change is a friend of the terrorists.

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.

And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.

*******more!

I love the "free again" Krugman.

I thought Krugman had been pretty consistent all along! I read him avidly in the NYT. He never disappoints me.

The column today was just great. Go Paul!

Glad to hear you are getting him free again. I didn't know they were charging before. I've been a subcriber for years and eagerly await my morning read.

Thank god for Krugman. He saves me from thinking I'm mad as a hatter for holding the opinions I have. Even tho I am in a very liberal town (New Haven) and have lots of friends who agree with me...

Character assassination.

Which Krugman had a nice essay on last week, if I recall.