The Comedic Gold of The Radical Right

Filed in National by on December 6, 2008

In doing some research for Monday’s post about Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal, I came across this piece of comedy goal. Donald Luskin of the National Review wrote this essay in 2003 entitled, Krugman’s “Test of Patriotism”. Luskin opens with this paragraph:

The liberal punditocracy is about to face the sum of all fears: a world in which President Bush took the nation to war over all their objections, doubts, and second-guesses — and won. What are liberal pundits to write about now, with Bush emerging victorious from a spectacularly successful war in Iraq with enough political capital and personal credibility to achieve anything he wishes?

How often was the Radical Right wrong during the days of Bush’s Administration? Apparently most of the time.

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  1. Unstable Isotope says:

    Ah, Luskin – the world’s stupidest man (see Brad DeLong) and Krugman stalker. The Kool-Aid must be very strong.

  2. Rebecca says:

    Someday somebody is going to explain to me why the “media” keeps on publishing this bull. Does the fairness doctrine require that for everything that is true they must publish something that is false?

  3. Unstable Isotope says:

    Rebecca,

    There is no fairness doctrine anymore, remember? The media keeps printing this crap because of the success of the radical right at working the refs. There just aren’t that many Republican intellectuals anymore so they’re left with this kind of idiocy.

  4. anonone says:

    The fairness doctrine has been replaced by the falseness doctrine: Every falseness must be obfuscated with more falseness.

  5. Joanne Christian says:

    Well said anonone!

  6. kavips says:

    I am not trying to sound glib, but I see the real cause is that the media is brain dead..

    Take Chris Matthews… he’s been doing what he’s doing for how long? It once was new, and now it’s boring.. so he goes further out on a limb, and further, and further, and further…

    Who can blame him when he sees Rush renew his contract with options for $100 million?

    Where’s the limb… I’ll start crawling too…

    Nay, been there, done that… I’ll stick with facts, thank you very much….

  7. RAY K> says:

    If you goggle Don luskin you will find he is infamous on wall street for making totaly wrong predictions about virtually everything. Yet he still is on the business shows as a guest “expert”

  8. Unstable Isotope says:

    Ray,

    Being absolutely wrong about everything doesn’t disqualify you from being published in newspapers.