The Big Hot Air

Paul Krugman wrote an article for the NY Times called “The Big Hate”. Krugman talks about the DHS report on right-wing “extremism” and makes the same outrageous claims that the DHS report made.

Krugman claims that Conservatives are aiding the fringe violent extremists. Krugman says:

There is, however, one important thing that the D.H.S. report didn’t say: Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.

 Krugman also says that:

And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased.

Krugman talks about the attack on the Holocaust museum and the 1994 Oklahoma City bombing and lumps it in with legitimate Conservative criticism of Obama’s policies.

Krugman claims that:

flu were being hyped “to get people to respond to government orders” — that’s a case of the conservative media establishment joining hands with the lunatic fringe.It’s not surprising, then, that politicians are doing the same thing. The R.N.C. says that “the Democratic Party is dedicated to restructuring American society along socialist ideals.”

There is plenty of evidence that Obama and other Democrat bureaucrats are imposing a Socialist agenda. Look at the Stimulus bill and the Omnibus spending bill, both of which are not there to repair the economy; but to help have bigger government and to help to impose Socialism on America. And look at with the banks, AIG and now Chrystler and GM. Obama is being a control freak with the big corporations. When the banks offered to return the TARP funds, Obama said no to them. Obama is determining CEO pay and is firing CEOs. Obama seeks to impose Socialism on the health care service. In response to what Obama did to GM, Hugo Chavez, not some right-wing Conservative who Paul doesn’t like, joked that he and his ally Fidel Castro may be to the right of Obama. Chavez joked,”Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right.”

Yet Paul seems to believe that not going along with his liberal nonsense means that you’re aiding the extremists.

Paul Krugman wrote:

But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.

Paul Krugman also wrote that:

Now, for the most part, the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. haven’t directly incited violence, despite Bill O’Reilly’s declarations that “some” called Dr. Tiller “Tiller the Baby Killer,” that he had “blood on his hands,” and that he was a “guy operating a death mill.” But they have gone out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the last time a Democrat held the White House.

The terror attack on Tiller had no justification. He is notorious for his abortions and a controversial guy. I won’t talk about abortion in that article. Paul never gave a singe quote of O’reilly praising the assasination attempt.

Krugman said:

Credit where credit is due. Some figures in the conservative media have refused to go along with the big hate — people like Fox’s Shepard Smith and Catherine Herridge, who debunked the attacks on that Homeland Security report two months ago. But this doesn’t change the broad picture, which is that supposedly respectable news organizations and political figures are giving aid and comfort to dangerous extremism.

What will the consequences be? Nobody knows, of course, although the analysts at Homeland Security fretted that things may turn out even worse than in the 1990s — that thanks, in part, to the election of an African-American president, “the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years.”

And that’s a threat to take seriously. Yes, the worst terrorist attack in our history was perpetrated by a foreign conspiracy. But the second worst, the Oklahoma City bombing, was perpetrated by an all-American lunatic. Politicians and media organizations wind up such people at their, and our, peril.

Paul, the broad picture is that you’re spreading propaganda. Paul quotes the DHS report as if it’s a legitimate source. He says that the “threat” of right-wing “extremism” should be taken seriously; while according to Krugman, Islamo-Fascism is a hoax. No, he didn’t say it in this column. He said it in a 2007 column. In Krugman’s world, Conservative critics of Obama and attacks from an isolated fringe who may or may not be right-wing are now more of a threat than a global Fundamentalist movement that seeks to impose Sharia throughout the world and that is responsible for the killing innocent Muslims and non-Muslims alike throughout the world. Krugman is a propagandist for the Obama mania media and seeks to present any critic of Obama, no matter how accurate his/her criticism is, of being associated with extremists. Paul said:

Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the Republican National Committee denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists.

Conservatives were right to be outraged. That report made me even more against Barack Obama. The chairman of the Republican party is right. The report and Krugman’s article are there to demonize the Conservative opposition.