ENORMOUS tip o' the cap

To Lying in Ponds, a teriffic website that tries to quantify parisanship. It's a teriffic site, and one of the few smart eough to have linked to us at one point. So it was a pleasure to see it referred to by name in this Economist piece, unfortunately available only to subscribers, fisking Paul Krugman. Krugman scores through the roof at lyinginponds' partianship meter, and the Economist explains why:

A glance through his past columns reveals a growing tendency to attribute all the world's ills to George Bush. Regarding California's energy crisis, for example, he berated the Bush administration and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for not imposing price caps sooner—but found no room to mention Bill Clinton, who presided over a similarly inactive FERC for the first part of the crisis, nor to attack California's then Democratic governor Gray Davis for his disastrous refusal to allow consumer prices to rise. After Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister of Malaysia, recently gave an anti-Semitic speech, Mr Krugman argued that the Bush administration's ham-fisted foreign policy had forced Dr Mahathir to make the remarks in order to shore up domestic political support—most unlikely, given that he was about to step down.

Getting linked by the Economist - a new goal for Remove All Doubt.
- posted by Anonymous @ 10:46 AM