Krugman does Dowd: Lampoons Bush in 'Imperial nudity'

[MelissaB]

Krugman does Dowd: Lampoons Bush in 'Imperial nudity'

RAW STORY


New York Times columnist Paul Krugman will take his column to new anti-Bush heights Friday with a column that ventures into the satirical landscape of liberal doyenne Maureen Dowd, newsroom sources tell RAW STORY.

The column is tenatively titled "Defending Imperial Nudity." Here are a few quick excerpts.

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Hans Christian Andersen understood bad rulers. "The Emperor's New Suit" doesn't end with everyone acclaiming the little boy for telling the truth. It ends with the emperor and his officials refusing to admit their mistake.

Fox News repeatedly played up possible finds of imperial clothing, then buried reports discrediting these stories. Months after the naked procession, a poll found that many of those getting most of their news from Fox believed that the emperor had in fact been clothed.

Helen Thomas, the veteran palace correspondent, opposed the suit project from the beginning. When she pointed out that the emperor's clothes had turned out not to exist, the imperial press secretary accused her of being "opposed to the broader war on nakedness."

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1. dowd is liberal? i thought she just hated everybody....

:shrug:

[stop the bleeding]

2. Yeah this seems like a pretty good metaphor that Krugman

developed for this article, we'll see what it does. thanks for the post.

[mduffy31]

3. That is what I thought

That is what I like about her, she takes out everyone, because you can't argure there aren't dems who need to be taken to the woodshed also.

[annabanana]

4. looking forward to it..

I think we should belabor the hell out that metaphor. Repeat it until even the purblind idiots know it's true.

[Loge23]

5. Krug's Klassic Klothing Kase

Terrific read! Krugman recaps the entire debacle in delicious satirical form.
I really liked his "little boy" - screaming over the din and effectively being labelled as a lunatic for it. We wasted that opportunity.

[madfloridian]

6. Two great parts:

"Although the imperial administration was conservative, its wardrobe plans drew crucial support from a group of liberal pundits. After the emperor's nakedness was revealed, the online magazine Slate held a symposium in which eight of these pundits were asked whether the fact that there was no suit had led them to reconsider their views. Only one admitted that he had been wrong - and he had changed his mind about the suit before the procession."


"Even though skeptics about the emperor's suit had been vindicated, TV news programs continued to portray those skeptics as crazy people. For example, the news networks showed, over and over, a clip of the little boy shouting at a party. The clip was deeply misleading: he had been shouting to be heard over background noise, which the ambient microphone didn't pick up. Nonetheless, "the scream" became a staple of political discourse."

And the saddest part where so many are still trying to cover their butts and defend their votes:

"...And they all lived happily ever after - in the story. Here in reality, a large and growing number are being killed by roadside bombs."