Paul Krugman's Brazen Hypocrisy

From: The Blog Prof

From Paul Krugman just the other day via memeorandum: Civility is the Last Refuge of Scoundrels. Paul Ryan's plan is evil, dead seniors in the streets, the Earth will implode if the GOP gets its way, yada, yada. Oh, and Paul Ryan's plan is evil. Eeeeeeevil! Thing is, though, that Krugman himself had quite a difference take on civility back in January immediately after the Giffords shooting in Arizona. A quote from Krugman from back then via Powerline:

Just yesterday, Ezra Klein remarked that opposition to health reform was getting scary. Actually, it's been scary for quite a while, in a way that already reminded many of us of the climate that preceded the Oklahoma City bombing.

You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and the violence I fear we're going to see in the months and years ahead. But violent acts are what happen when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate-mongers.

That from perhaps the biggest hate-monger that the left has in its infinite quiver of hate mongers. To boot, he's perhaps also the biggest hypocrite, as the above clearly shows regarding his doublethink - almost simultaneously holding diametrically opposing viewpoints.

More flashbacks of Krugman's cries for civility a few short months ago via Instapundit: Pejman Yousefzadeh rounds up statements by Ezra Klein, Markos Moulitsas, and Paul Krugman and asks: “Who are these people to be lecturing the rest of us about political civility?”. Plus here:

THE ECONOMIST: Spinning Tucson: Krugman’s Toxic Rhetoric. “This struck me as irresponsibly premature, and one might have thought that, given a little more time and information, Mr Krugman would change his tune, or at least turn down the volume. Nope. . . . At this point, there is simply no sound reason to believe this deranged young man was fired up by ‘toxic’ or ‘eliminationist’ conservative rhetoric from Michele Bachmann or whomever. Why are we even having this conversation? It’s nuts. It’s offensive.”

It’s Krugman. Related thoughts here. “Another way of describing Fitzsimmons’s and Krugman’s comments is that they were fantasies. In the absence of facts, each man constructed a fictional story to explain what had happened. These stories tell us nothing about the external world, but they give us a window into the psyches of Fitzsimmons and Krugman.” Indeed they do. Plus this: “It seems to us there is a very strong case to be made that the ugliest political rhetoric of the past 48 hours has been that coming from the side whose leading voices are attempting to make sense of a senseless crime by blaming their opponents for it.”