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<\/p>\nRUSH: Paul Krugman was finally put in his place on ABC yesterday by Mary Matalin. A lot of people don\u2019t understand Paul Krugman\u2019s appeal to the extreme left. I have to explain it to \u2019em. Krugman is the Bible to the extreme left. He\u2019s a Nobel Prize winner. He\u2019s a New York Times columnist. That is 85% of it. He\u2019s in the New York Times, that\u2019s all you need. It\u2019s the same with Thomas Friedman, a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. I mean, Thomas Friedman is out there, “We need to be more like China. We need to be more like China.” He\u2019s actually got a piece, China is aggressively, properly cutting down on the size of homes people can build. And China\u2019s going great guns into solar.<\/p>\n
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China\u2019s losing their rear end in solar because there have been so many solar panels manufactured, there\u2019s not a market for \u2019em, they\u2019re losing their shirts on solar in China just as everybody is here. And still Thomas Friedman\u2019s out touting this stuff, and he\u2019s saying the ChiCom government\u2019s doing the right thing by telling people they can\u2019t build big houses. You ought to see a picture of the house that Thomas Friedman lives in. This thing may be 30,000 square feet. His swimming pool is bigger than your living room and master bedroom combined. It\u2019s his wife\u2019s money, but it doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s still living in the House. Thomas L. Friedman doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about half the time, but he\u2019s in the New York Times and that\u2019s all it takes, he\u2019s brilliant. <\/p>\n
Friends of mine down here, golf buddies, Tom Friedman comes to town, they go to some square arts luncheon. They can\u2019t wait to get there, Thomas L. Friedman. “He\u2019s an idiot,” I said, “doesn\u2019t even know what he\u2019s talking about.” <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s the New York Times.” <\/p>\n
“Yeah, that\u2019s even worse.” <\/p>\n
Well, Krugman is the same. Paul Krugman, the ferret-like Paul Krugman, these leftists love Krugman because he is them. He is a mad — and I\u2019m talking about sanity — mad, extreme, angry, lying leftist who makes it up. But because his venom is directed at conservatives and Republicans, he is loved and adored. So yesterday he was on This Week during the roundtable, George Stephanopoulos, got George Will on there and Mary Matalin I think is there. I don\u2019t know if George Will was there yesterday or not, but Mary Matalin was, and Carville was there, and they\u2019re having a discussion about the presidential debate, and Stephanopoulos said, “This was a brand-new format where Jim Lehrer <\/a>said he basically wanted to get out of the way, and he says, against a lot of critics, he was effective in doing that.”<\/p>\n KRUGMAN: I don\u2019t know whether to blame Lehrer or to blame the president, but it was kind of amazing, \u2019cause Romney was not only saying things that are not true, he\u2019s saying things that his own campaign had previously said weren\u2019t true. The one that got me was not the stuff about taxes, but the thing about covering people with preexisting conditions. Which his plan does not. Which he has said that before and his campaign has walked it back in the past. And there he was right again saying, “Well, my plan covers preexisting conditions,” which is displaying a kind of contempt for the public.<\/p>\n