Pat Caddell: I cant help thinking Paul Krugmans a bit of a sphincter

Pat Caddell Expresses His Distain for New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman
During an episode of the late late night Fox show known as “Red Eye”, former Jimmy Carter pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell expresses his distain for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Daily Caller On Fox News Channel’s Friday airing of “Red Eye,” host Greg Gutfeld wondered if the media was denial over the notion it had little to do with the actions of Jared Loughner, the suspect in the recent Tucson, Ariz. shooting. “Here’s an interesting point R

Two Videos to Watch; Eric Fullers Edited Hyperbole and Pat Caddell Calls Krugman an Asshole
First, there is Eric Fuller and his comments to Democracy Now.  Basically he said things like this: “It looks like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the rest got their first target,” Eric Fuller, a former campaigner for Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, told Democracy Now. “Their wish for Second Amendment Activism has been fulfilled.” But I want you to watch the original video, and listen carefully. It’s risible in many ways, but notice what he doesn’t say....

Pat Caddell: Krugman is a flat-out Asshole
During an episode of the late late night Fox show known as “Red Eye”, former Jimmy Carter pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell expresses his distain for New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “He is a flat-out asshole.”, said Caddell.. “[T]he point is - you know, this thing started - I have to say, when I look at [Paul] Krugman and Jonathan Alter, with his advice and the president, ‘Don’t let this go to waste - let’s make it like Okla

Paul Krugman, Somewhat Leashed
Is Paul Krugman actually trying to heed Obama’s call for civility in Friday’s column “A Tale Of Two Moralities”? He seems to be straining not to unleash the inner Krugman, albeit not particularly effectively. On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to “expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together.” Those were b...

Krugman: Theres Only You and Me and We Just Disagree
That’s the sentiment of Paul Krugman’s column today, which makes a crucial distinction amidst this call for civility in the discourse, one I think a lot of people are missing. Sitting in a mixed Bipartisan Fashion or boy-girl-boy-girl at the State of the Union, or vowing to “come together” after a national tragedy is a fine goal to have, I guess. But the truth is that in the large and diverse country of America there exist very different visions for The Economy, for the...

Paul Krugman channels Howard Dean [Darleen Click]
… just with a lot more words One side of American politics considers the modern Welfare State — a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net — morally superior to the Capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal. It’s only right, this side believes, for the affluent to help the less fortunate. The other side believes that people have a right to keep what they earn, and that taxing them to support oth

Pat Caddell: Paul Krugman Is A Flat-Out Asshole
Yeah, yeah. “Civility” and all that. But is it uncivil if it’s accurate? It’s about time someone said it. But to Caddell’s point, he says given the reaction and coverage of the Tucson shootings from the left/media, “no wonder people hate the media and hate the politicians.” He’s right. While most Americans are sitting at home wondering what the shooting in Tucson had to do with politics, the left and the media are falling all over themselves trying...

Paul Krugman Exposes Milton Friedman (Thanks to Ron Paul)
Writes Robert Wenzel: Wow, Paul Krugman is so desperate to get at Ron Paul and the Austrian School that he has just exposed Milton Friedman as a lefty. Read the rest. ...

Even Reagan would have had to fear a tea party primary
Paul Krugman, arguing that the deep divide in American politics is largely a function of the GOP's lurch to the right and the conservative rejection of the idea that government can and should provide a social safety net: This deep divide in American political Morality — for that’s what it amounts to — is a relatively recent development. Commentators who pine for the days of civility and Bipartisanship are, whether they realize it or not, pining for the days when the Republican...

Whats the Vitriol About?
Paul Krugman says there’s no room for middle ground in American politics: One side of American politics considers the modern Welfare State — a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net — morally superior to the Capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal . It’s only right, this side believes, for the affluent to help the less fortunate. The other side believes that people have a right to keep what t

Everything You Need To Know About American Politics
Paul Krugman makes a fundamental point about the nature of the left-right divide: One side of American politics considers the modern Welfare State — a private-enterprise economy, but one in which society’s winners are taxed to pay for a social safety net — morally superior to the Capitalism red in tooth and claw we had before the New Deal. It’s only right, this side believes, for the affluent to help the less fortunate. The other side believes that people have a right to...

The moral battle of our age
Paul Krugman's column yesterday was, predictably, a significant cut above the common response to Obama's Speech: A Tale of Two Moralities By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: January 13, 2011 On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to "expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together." Those were beautiful words; they spoke to our desire for reconciliatio...

CIGNA Whistleblower on GOP's Repeal Smokescreen & How It Is Providing Cover for Insurance Companies
...The notion that this Legislation will be repealed is just Rhetoric. It's political Rhetoric. It's a smokescreen to get our attention off what the real objectives are. By now the Insurance Industry Lobbyists have met with every new member of Congress, certainly those they helped put into Congress, and have said, "Look you may actually believe this was a government takeover of the Health Care system but we needed to have this legislation. And if you care anything about having a private insura...

Sheriff Dupnik Should Resign
I was studying in my basement when my phone alerted me that Gabby Giffords, a Congresswoman from my home-state, had been shot along with several others. My first thoughts were of sorrow. Gabby Giffords was by all accounts a decent person and although I did not subscribe to many of her political views, an attack on a Congresswoman is an attack on our Republic. It should not make a difference, but combine this with her reputation as a kind person, it was even more tragic. It was heartbreaking to r...

OK, Glenn Beck: Are you man enough to take the CrooksandLiars Pledge?
Sniff. Kinda makes you feel sad, doesn't it? Nobody wants to sign Glenn Beck's phony "non-violence" pledge. Hmmmmm. Wonder why that could be? BECK: The number of people so far who signed this pledge denouncing violence: 14 -- 14. Over 500 members in the House and Senate, and 14. Now, I was going to show you the 14 names because I'm proud of those guys, but maybe some other time. I don't want this to turn into -- I mean, this is not the Committee on Un-American Activities. That's for Congress to ...

Ignoring the President, Krugman doubles down on violent rhetoric narrative
A few days ago, Paul Krugman, NY Times opinion writer and Nobel Laureate - a fact no one on the left will ever let you forget - wrote what I can only characterize as a screed denouncing Republicans and the right in general for the use of violent language that he claimed led directly to the tragedy in Tuscon.  Now, two days later and after the President of the United States himself has denounced Krugman’s claims by noting - rightfully so - that a lack of civility ...

Fox News Watch: Jonathan Alter, Paul Krugman and Markos Moulitsas 'Villains' for Terrible Tucson Reporting
CBS Touts Dem Congresswoman Using Daughter to Pin Shooting on Rhetoric: 'Mommy, Are You Going to Get Shot?' Fox News Watch panelists on Saturday named some villains concerning last week's tragedy in Tucson. Jon Scott, HOST: The media is always looking for heroes and sometimes villains in a case like this. Who made the list? LYNN SWEET, Chicago SUN-TIMES: Well, number one the only one on my list of villains is the shooter, and his motivations are still being looked into. SCOTT: And...

Caldwell's Unfairness
It's important to push back against untruths as much as against Incivility. And so when Christopher Caldwell writes the following in the Financial Times, I have to to ask him for actual evidence: Many prominent people disheartened by the resurgence of the Republican party - notably the blogger Andrew Sullivan, the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, and the Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik - linked the shootings to Republican ideology or Rhetoric, as expressed by former vice pres...

TEA-BAGGER MOB ATTACKS DEAR LEADER OBAMA!!!
The wave of right-wing Extremist expired violence erupting across America continued today when a crazed mob composed of Tea Baggers attacked President Obama as he emerged from a DENOUNCE PALIN VIOLENCE NOW! rally in suburban Red City, Texas. The leader of the mob was identified as Sarah Lockenload (pictured below) a local resident and probable Climate Change denier. President Obama applies Jedi-Master self-defense move to Wingnut Extremist and would-be assassin Sarah Lockenload, causing her ext...

Setting limits on contentious debate
From a discussion on NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday this morning with Scott Simon and Ed Deggans: NPR:  Has heated Rhetoric become a format? Eric Deggans, TV and media critic for the St. Petersburg Times: Oh-h-h, yes!  It's a format that earns millions of dollars for several people particularly in Cable News and on Talk Radio.  Contentious political debate is what fuels Ratings and what earns big profits.  NPR:  In the wake of the shootings in Tucson, we...

Goodbye, Bill Maher
Watching him has always been a Guilty Pleasure, like taking your id out to the park for a backed-up dump of anger and hostility, but Bill Maher's season premiere at the end of a traumatic week persuades one watcher to take a small step for Mankind's civility by clicking off the remote forever. All that hyperbole now induces more guilt than pleasure in a time when point-scoring seems more beside the point than ever. One of the admirable public figures of our time, Elizabeth Warren, is on to talk...

The meaningless gesture of bipartisan seating at SOTU
In response to the shooting in Tucson, a number of Democrats (and a handful of Republicans) have put forward the notion of bi-partisan seating for the State of the Union address, as if that shooting were a product of the supposedly poisonous political climate. Now, I’m wondering if any of those Democrats proposing this idea proposed it when a Republican was president subject to the vile vilification from the left.  How many of these Democrats have confronted the nastiness on their side...

Milton Friedman Debate Sounding Like It Could Be Taking Place Today
This is fascinating. One of the debaters, Walter Williams, uses the phrase “undocumented worker” even then. Of course, Friedman has it right. You cannot have free Immigration with a Welfare State. Period. Common sense. Watch how after he makes that point The Progressive totally ignores it and just goes to his talking points;  talking points that are was as wrong then as they still are today. Jump to 35:38 ...

Chris Christie to headline NRCC dinner in Washington (Daily Caller)
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Top 10 prospects for the 2011 NFL Draft [SLIDESHOW] Chris Christie to headline NRCC dinner in Washington Former Carter pollster Pat Caddell: NY Times columnist Krugman 'a flat-out asshole' Tea Party Express reportedly took thousands in donations from dead woman TheDC sports columnist Andy Hayes: NFL Playoff picks The National Republican Congressional Committee has picked New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to keynote its annual Fundraising dinner on March 30,...

Brooklyn College professor and NY Times writer Helen Rubinstein stole internet for years but she may have to pay big-time now
Read more stories from The Daily Caller Brooklyn College Professor and NY Times writer Helen Rubinstein stole Internet for years — but she may have to pay big-time now Golden Globes: Flashback to Hollywood's Golden Age [SLIDESHOW] Top 10 prospects for the 2011 NFL Draft [SLIDESHOW] Chris Christie to headline NRCC dinner in Washington Former Carter pollster Pat Caddell: NY Times columnist Krugman 'a flat-out asshole' In a Thursday New York Times op-ed, Brooklyn College Professor Helen Rubinst...