Krugman confronts Bush assertion that black is white, up is down
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In an interview with CalPundit Kevin Drum, Dr. Paul Krugman (one of my favorite New York Times writers) says concerning the difference between previous presidential lying and that of the present Bush Administration:
This is different, this is really more extreme. We’re not talking about disagreements about policy at this point, we’re talking about people who insist that things that are flatly not true are true, that black is white, up is down.
Excellent interview, well worth reading. (Most of the comments after the interview aren’t, though, so save your time — after the first few they’re mostly right-wing yippage from people who insist that things that are flatly not true are true, that black is white, up is down.)
Telling the truth is a virtue, despite what U.S. conservative leadership would have us believe. Spinning a web of lies is not. Promoting intellectual dishonesty is not. I very much appreciate Paul Krugman — and Joe Conason and Al Franken and others — for pointing this out skillfully and intelligently.
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