Mary Matalin Calls Paul Krugman A ‘Liar’ For Telling The Truth

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/07/972441/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 Ryan’s 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 you’re hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.

But this is exactly what the Ryan proposal is — turning Medicare from a “defined benefit” into a “defined contribution” plan. Seniors would get a voucher from the federal government that they could use to help pay for a selection of private plans.

Although the Romney/Ryan campaign has shied away from this phrase in favor of the euphemistic “premium support,” Ryan himself has specifically referred to his proposal as a “voucher” program in the past.

[Javaman]

1. In other news...

mary matalin is still a water carrying halfwit.

[Flashmann]

2. There is a word that perfectly describes this creature

Punt....No,that's not quite right....Runt....Nope.....Shunt....Dammit..I just had it....

[mnhtnbb]

3. Projection. I wish there would be a united response to this kind of crap

to tell these people to their faces that there is a psychological term
for what they are doing when they accuse others of the very thing
they are doing themselves. In other words, Krugman should have said,
"Excuse me, but YOU, Ms Matalin are the liar. And let me explain
to our viewers the concept of projection..."

[fascisthunter]

4. but, but, but she said it with such sincerity

she couldn't be the liar.... or could she?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. "so you’re hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar"

Coming from someone who has never had a day of credibility in her life, that's rich.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. The comments on YouTube are brutal against her....

....Right Wingers are only a danger when the general public believes them.

Amazing what lying us into a war does for one's credibility.