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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 08:51 AM
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Paul Krugman to Fox News CEO: ‘Deliberate misinformation’

In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for spreading blatantly false information about the Democrats' health care bill -- and put the blame squarely on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

"Glenn Beck doesn't, you know," Krugman began, "what bothers me is the fact that people are not getting informed, that we are going through major debates on crucial policy issues; the public is not learning about them. And you know, you can say, well, they can read the New York Times, which will tell them what they need to know, but you know, most people don't. They don't read it thoroughly.... People did not know what was in the plan, and some of that was just poor reporting, some of it was deliberate misinformation. I have here in front of me when President Obama said, you know, why -- he said rhetorically, why aren't we going to do a health care plan like the Europeans have, with a government-run program, and then proceeds to explain why he's different. On Fox News, what appeared was a clipped quote, "why don't we have a European-style health care plan?" Right, deliberate misinformation."

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes interjects: "Wait a minute, wait a minute..."

And Krugman replies, "I can show you the clip, and you can..."

"The American people are not stupid," Ailes says.

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http://rawstory.com/2010/02/paul-krugman-trashes-glenn-beck/

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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 04:19 AM
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1. Bravo for Krugman.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 08:01 PM
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2.  You are correct Mr Ailes
"the American people are not stupid",just the sheep that watch and believe the shit,you and your paid liers distort.
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