Krugman Over the Edge: He Should Apologize for Smearing Bernie Sanders With False Charges

[Stellar]

Danny Glover
Actor, producer and humanitarian

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Paul Krugman has been waging a one-man war against Bernie Sanders, lobbing bombs and missiles from his perch at the New York Times, in column after blog post after column. It is interesting that has chosen to repeatedly smear Bernie, ad nauseum, rather than try to promote some positive qualities about Hillary Clinton or her record, about which he has said very little. Perhaps it is because for Krugman, who is neither a moderate Republican nor a conservative Democrat, nor a neoconservative militarist on foreign policy, it’s not so easy for him to promote Hillary.

But on Friday he really went “over the edge,” to use his own words. And this time, he really owes Bernie and his millions of voters and supporters an apology.

In his column, he argues that Bernie does not consider African-Americans to be “real Democrats,” which implies that Bernie is a racist. What is the evidence that he offers for such a serious charge?
Just these two sentences in his column:

Over the past week, Mr. Sanders has declared that Mrs. Clinton leads only because she has won in the “Deep South,” which is a “pretty conservative part of the country.” The tally so far, he says, “distorts reality” because it contains so many Southern states.
Let’s ignore that he exaggerates what Bernie actually said. For Krugman, because Hillary “won big in the South” by “getting an overwhelming majority of Black voters,” this means that Bernie’s brief statements are an “effort to delegitimize” these voters, saying they are not “real Democrats” and “shouldn’t count.”

But this is nonsense. There is an obvious way to understand Bernie’s statement that is consistent with what any historian or political scientist can tell you. The white voters who would vote for a progressive, populist candidate like Sanders are lacking in the Democratic primaries in Southern states. This is a reasonable observation and does not imply in any way that African-American voters are not “real Democrats.”

Of course, these states are conserv

[Bluenorthwest]

1. I agree with Danny Glover, Krugman does owe Bernie Sanders and America an apology.

I'd also like Mr Krugman to know that the South in it's entirety has laws allowing discrimination against LGBT and therefore I will be saying that the South is a conservative region no matter what Paul thinks about that.

[JudyM]

2. Glad he's addressing that total red herring argument that many hilbots tout so self righteously.