Paul Krugman: GOP Is 'The Party of Whiners and Racial Backlash'

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Has Paul Krugman become print's version of Keith Olbermann?

After you read his column published by the New York Times Friday in which he called Republicans "a party of whiners" that forty years ago "decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash," there may be little doubt.

Readers are advised to strap themselves in tightly, for Krugman appears to have woken up New Year's day with a vicious hangover, and the target of his disaffection was anyone with an "R" next to his or her name (emphasis added):

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As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners. [...]

Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision.

Hmmm. It seems Krugman, always one to intentionally omit inconvenient details when they don't fit his agenda, is forgetting what Ronald Wilson Reagan did in 1980.

Was his ascendancy and revival of the Republican Party based in racial backlash? Are the concepts of a strong defense, less regulation, and lower taxes only held dear by white people? Were the Reagan Democrats all racists?

As readers find out, in Krugman's view the answer to all three questions is "Yes":

In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded form: “You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People.

Oh, and the racial element isn’t all that abstract, even now: Chip Saltsman, currently a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members a CD including a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” — and according to some reports, the controversy over his action has actually helped his chances.

How disgraceful, but not surprising. After all, liberal media members like Krugman aided and abetted Obama's use of the race card against the Clintons and eventually McCain-Palin. If you thought his kind were about to depart from this strategy now that their candidate has won, you were guilty of wishful thinking.

In the next four years -- hopefully, that's all -- everything emanating from Krugman and his ilk will be racially and/or class-based. They got their man in the White House by doing so, and well try to fortify their positions with this same disgusting, divisive scheme.

No wonder the Times is having such financial problems.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


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I am always amazed

When the party which set up the KKK as their terror wing, pushed segregation and wrote the Jim Crow laws lectures others about being racists.

And now we have Harry Reid in the tradition of the segregation Democrats going to use the armed law to block the Senate doors to prevent seating a duly appointed black Senator.

Life truly is a sitcom.

Not to mention the fact that Dems celebrate...

....two slave owners, one of whom also loved to kill injuns as the founding fathers of their party.  I mean of course ol' T. Jefferson and Andy Jackson, whose names are used for the annual Dem dinners around the country.

And we don't even have to look in the past, folks.

"Sheets" Byrd, anyone?

--Mike 

www.thebrattonreport...

Well you can't blame him

Well you can't blame him for being angry.  After all, Republicans claim that certain people aren't "authentic" blacks if they don't have the right political view.  And they call black Republicans "House Negroes".... and constantly play the race card....

Oh wait!  That's the Democrats.

<waving hand> Never mind  -Emily Litella

It's always code words. 

“You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and
all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a
byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People.

As Charlie Rangel accused:  ...it's not "spic" or "nigger" any more....they say "Let's cut taxes." 

That was in the 90's.  I guess they are more abstract now?  Pretty soon they'll be so abstract they won't even understand their own code!

 

 

Sounds like that

Mental disorder where projection is one of the symptoms.

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

 

 

AHusser...Isn't that

the definition of Democrat?

Lord I apologize. I am all confused 'cause I belong to 'The Party of Whiners and Racial Backlash'.

Sad- As some say 'If

the shoe fits'. Anyway Liberalism is a mental disorder. Unfortunately it's turning into a pandemic. 

Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster

Who asked ya?

 

Krugman, Krugman...isn't he some economics expert who was supposed to see trends in er...total world financial ruin coming?

Same guy?

Well the lefties thought

Well the lefties thought so. Actually Krugman does nothing more than irritate half of the population on a nearly daily basis.

 

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Didn't this guy just get a

Didn't this guy just get a Nobel prize for economics?  Why is he talking about social and political issues?  The only thing in here that regards his supposed expertise is his mention of taxes, but that was really just a racial comment.  Also, am I wrong or do the lefties seem to use alot of generalities and "some say" in order to defend their position?  Facts seem to be avoided as many (see, I can do it too!) may run contrary to the agenda.

Krugman shows that he is just parroting the party line.

As his 'arguments' and omitted facts show, he really does not have a firm grasp of reality, but is simply regurgitating what he is told like a good little worker-bee. He is what others have called a "useful fool". 

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012

HA!  Thank you Mr. Krugman

HA!  Thank you Mr. Krugman for telling us exactly what we need to be doing, (that you are so afraid of) to undermine your liberal agenda!  Typical liberal tactic of accusing people of doing what "they" don't want them to do!  The fact he has to reach back almost 30 years and then spin it says they are artifully trying to tell the GOP that it would be mature of them to let the past be the past and not do what the Dems have done for 8 years in undermining George W Bush. 

Excellent, we shall be pointing out your failures and proposed failures at every opportunity.  We shall expose your agenda and tactics and then say I told you so when you inevitably screw up because Socialism ALWAYS end in FAILURE, it's a historical given. 

Oh yes, you want the country to be united behind you completely unlike what you formented the last 8 years.  NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.  It's pay back time.  We will point out how you are costing the poor jobs and causing their falling standard of living due to your taxes and policies.  And we will point out every failure, continue to expose the MSM as the lib Dem mouth pieces and when the MSM gets their bailout from the government, we will be pointing out they are beholding to the Dem political party as their propaganda outlet, count on it.

Just click the link below, see how the poor are being screwed by the Dems.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Dog faced boy-----

Krugman has to talk his rhetoric to have friends, that's my best guess. People make choices in life, Krugman made his, he became a leftist and probably keeps company with like minds just to have someone to talk to. Ya know, it's his leftist pals who have created this housing, credit crunch mess, the collective guilt trip foisted upon good people to grant home loans to people who can't [pay] attention, much less make a house payment. All of Krugman's cry of doom for all those years, his prognostications that didn't happen, well a stopped clock is spot-on twice a day, well, he finally hit pay dirt. If anyone wanted to lay blame and have courage to do it just point out the policies of the corrupt democrat leftist loons. Yeah, that's it, just get in their face and demand their resignation, that's you Frank, Dodd, Waters, in fact any congressman from any large inner city or failed state with massive debt, GET OUT!!!!

 

Oh yeah before I forget, Krugman would have to wear a pork chop around his neck just have a poodle for a friend, of course he might attract Chris Matthews.

Krugman

Yeah, I saw this one this morning and had to grip the sides of the chair. This is the core whacko liberal worldview. He says that the Republicans are against Those People, and yet his entire argument rests on prejudices against Republicans who are, to him, Those People. He does what he accuses his opponents of doing. This is pure stereotype. This is a classic picture of prejudice - it carries no thinking, instead it just propels itself along on its own self-serving assumptions. 

  • The mark of great thinkers is their ability to transcend the shackles of cozy and self-serving assumptions. Tossing out these tired and frequently-disproved liberal stereotypes (conservatives are racist, conservatives hate government, Bush is the conservative "champion," etc.), Krugman doesn't challenge assumptions ... he reinforces them.
  • He wants approval from fellow liberals, and to get it, he'll offer them exactly what they want. What else can explain his choice to publish these liberal farts?
  • He bought the liberal worldview, and now he has no choice but to come up with justifications (paper thin if necessary) for it. He can't re-examine the assumptions of his group without threatening the bonds that hold them together.

By publishing these obvious cliches as his "opinion," he revealed how trapped he is by slogans and cliches, and how trapped he is by the worldview of the liberals who created them.

Can anyone hope that his professional economic analysis is any more free or creative than spouting such "group-think" nonsense? To put it in perspective, the same hacks who gave him his award gave Al Gore an award. Hacks honoring hacks.

I suppose one has to be a

I suppose one has to be a die-hard kool-aid drinking liberal to appreciate the concept of someone, like Krugman and Olbermann, being paid to be politically obnoxious and bileous. 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Huh?

"Has Paul Krugman become print's version of Keith Olbermann?"

Become? 

He was Keith Olbermann before Keith Olbermann was cool.

More Misjudgment

Krugman is feeling and expressing the hubris of Obama's victory. Things are never as good as the replacing party thinks they are. When Obama begins his program, all of this racial politics discussion will be replaced by the only important thing: The Economy. The democratic plan for improving the US economy won't work because it's based on socialism.

Krugman is leading the NYT's headfirst plunge down the toilet.

The more I read from this

The more I read from this arrogant snob and economic illiterate, the more I realize how worthless an Ivy League "education" and the Nobel Prize are.  Ponzi Schemes have more substance behind them than a policy argument from this clown has. 

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

fitzfong.blogspot.com

I think I've seen the

I think I've seen the posted picture of Krugman in the dictionary, next to "shifty". 

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

Caption for Krugman photo

Caption for Krugman photo:

"Mr. Krugman pisses in his Depends for the first time."

 

You may not be far off.

Apparently, he was on some ABC show called "This Wee," so maybe he was there to talk about incontinence?

--Mike 

www.thebrattonreport...

Liberals are Racists

The Republicans want everyone to succeed, the Democrats want to keep certain groups in their place. I've said for some time that liberals, white and black are racists.
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The New York Times and Krugman

What a slimeball. The day the Times collapses should be declared a National Holiday.

Wow, the Krugslimester had

Wow, the Krugslimester had to ignore about fifteen decades of American history to come up with that load of Bull Squeeze.

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.”

Krugman

Just another Obama girl with a podium.First Da Dems are always crying racism.It must be from seeing all their little buddies who are racist.The problem is they think everyone thinks like they do.Wrong answer!Not everyone has sunk to their level.Most Americans dont want their minds polluted like these liberal elite sewage slurpers.Krugman climb out of that cesspool of refuse called the liberal elite and get help.Stop drinking the toilet water.

Kruggie is such a small,

Kruggie is such a small, little man....

dlcarter... With a

dlcarter...

With a minuscule mind to match.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Guess he never heard of the

Guess he never heard of the Dixiecrats.

Besides, he's confusing Democrats with Communists.  Just because the Communists have taken over, doesn't mean that we're still talking about traditional Democrats.

When black Americans finally got together and said they had enough, that's when change came about.  It wasn't mandates from the government, the NAACP, the Socialists, etc....it was Americans finally exercising their rights as Americans. 

Also, the blacks were/are a minority.  If the vast majority of whites didn't want them to have equal rights, they wouldn't.  The whites, especially in the deep South, did come around and rather quickly.  Most realized that Jim Crow was wrong.  When blacks remained silent, the whites figured they were OK.  Also, what idiot believes that the average white Southerner had all that many more advantages than the black Southerners?  It was always a matter of a power elite (the same one as before the Civil War) running the show.  It was class-based economics and politics more than race.  The millions of Roman slaves were mostly white...so, what was the difference?  How on earth did they know who was a slave and who wasn't? They were slaves just because the PTB said they were.  Skin color isn't the ultimate Human method of explotation.

Also, I can counter that the Democratic Party has become the party of historical revisionism, Marxism, voter fraud and recounts.

So there...nyaaaah! 

One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.