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Wealth of Opinions; Economist and Columnist Paul Krugman Has Emerged as Bush's Harshest Critic
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| Publication : | The Washington Post- Washington, D.C. |
| Author : | Howard Kurtz |
| Date : | Jan 22, 2003 |
| Abstract (Document Summary) |
| Liberals, meanwhile, see [Paul Krugman] as their new champion. "He goes completely against the cognoscenti," says James Carville, the Democratic strategist and CNN talking head. "The average dinner- party-guest editorial writer would say [George W. Bush] has got some faults, but he's a straight-talking, honest guy. Krugman is just relentless in saying this guy lacks any honesty and integrity in everything he does. He says Bush is a fraud, and he never stops -- he says it over and over." Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer declines to discuss Krugman, who he says never called back when he phoned the columnist with a complaint during the 2000 campaign. (Krugman says he tried to reach Fleischer.) "He's not exactly what you would call widely read at the White House," Fleischer says. One administration official dismisses Krugman's pieces as "simple Bush-bashing exercises." Krugman's failure to call the people he writes about also leads to occasional mistakes. Last January, he apologized for attributing a phrase to CNBC's Kudxlow -- "the Clinton-Levitt recession" -- that had been uttered by another conservative. In October, Krugman said he had erred by attributing to Army Secretary Thomas White an incriminating e-mail message supposedly written during White's tenure as an Enron executive. Krugman had picked up the allegation from Salon, which later withdrew the story and apologized. hide... | | Liberals, meanwhile, see [Paul Krugman] as their new champion. "He goes completely against the cognoscenti," says James Carville, the Democratic strategist and CNN talking head. "The average dinner- party-guest editorial writer would say [George W. Bush] has got some faults, but he's a straight-talking, honest guy. Krugman is more... |
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