KRUGMAN: Untruths, Wholly Untrue, And Nothing But Untruths

[kpete]

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I was deeply radicalized by the 2000 election. At first I couldn’t believe that then-candidate George W. Bush was saying so many clearly, provably false things; then I couldn’t believe that nobody in the news media was willing to point out the lies. (At the time, the Times actually told me that I couldn’t use the l-word either). That was when I formulated my “views differ on shape of planet” motto.

Now, however, Mitt Romney seems determined to rehabilitate Bush’s reputation, by running a campaign so dishonest that it makes Bush look like a model of truth-telling.


the rest:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/untruths-wholly-untrue-and-nothing-but-untruths/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto

[babylonsister]

1. He's really been hammering mittster; love, love, love it! nt

[snagglepuss]

2. Romney in a nutshell. Interesting that NYT explicitly told

Krugman not to point out lies Bush told in 2000.

[Demeter]

3. The Grey Lady Has LOTS of Blood on Her Hands

and with Iran, is shooting for more.

NYT must be read very critically...at least since Clinton (which is when I started cursing it).

[City Lights]

4. That was a real eye opener.

And just yesterday they were asking whether journalists should challenge false statements made by policymakers they're reporting on. Unreal.

[snagglepuss]

8. Your right the comments about journalist asking questions about

is in the realm of the unreal. Totally jaw dropping.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Bush the Least was a corporate supremacist and so is Romney.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[Martin Eden]

6. Those FALSE NARRATIVES have been steadily constructed for decades

It's the strategy laid out by Joseph Goebells, pure and simple:
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth.

Romney and the other Rethugs have learned well the lessons of the infamous Nazi propagandist.

[Stuart G]

7. K and R thanks for posting..nt

[fascisthunter]

9. the Corporate Media is a Propaganda Machine that serves the 1%

remember how that same corporate media keeps putting you down for your "liberal ideals". Think about why they would.

[tclambert]

10. Willard! We should make a concerted effort to refer to Romney as Willard. Willard, Willard, Willard.

Why is he ashamed of his first name? Why is he trying to hide it? Is that why he refuses to reveal his tax returns?