Paul Krugman Tells The Truth On ABC: The Press Doesn’t Know How To Handle Political Lies [View all]

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Paul Krugman: The Press Doesn’t Know How To Handle Political Lies

SAHIL KAPUR 12:07 PM EDT, SUNDAY OCTOBER 7, 2012

On ABC's "This Week" roundtable Sunday, Paul Krugman said Mitt Romney is exploiting a press that is ineffective at holding politicians accountable for lies.

"The press just doesn’t know how to handle flat-out untruths," he said.

"I don’t know whether to blame [the debate moderator Jim] Lehrer or the president, but it was kind of amazing because Romney was not only saying things that are not true, he was saying things that his own campaign had previously said weren’t true,” said the economist and New York Times columnist.

Citing Romney's claims on taxes and preexisting conditions, Krugman said the Republican nominee showed "contempt for us by thinking the news media will not cover on me as long as they say forcefully I won."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/paul-krugman-press-cant-handle-political-lies



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Mary Matalin Calls Paul Krugman A ‘Liar’ For Telling The Truth

During a roundtable discussion on George Stephanoupolos’ This Week Sunday morning, GOP political consultant Mary Matalin got into a heated exchange with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, calling him a “liar” for previously referring to Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan as a “voucher” program:

MATALIN: You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration, to calling it a voucher plan, so you’re hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/10/07/972441/mary-matalin-calls-paul-krugman-a-liar-for-telling-the-truth/?mobile=nc