Reply #21: As I posted above, Krugman even links to a piece which states ... [View All]

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Cohn ...

"One more thing: I see, from reading other items on this around the web, other journalists writing on health care were not aware that Gruber was doing projections for the administration. Obviously this was not as widely known as I thought, which means that Wheeler deserves credit for publicizing Gruber's work--and that I should be diligent about mentioning it in the future."

Krugman ...

"What the folks at Firedoglake should ask themselves is this: do you really want to become just like the right-wingers with their endless supply of fake scandals?"

Instead of leveling a charge against Wheeler and FDL for Fake scandals, maybe Krugman should step back rethink his accusation.

:shrug:


And there is no mention by Krugman or you about slinkerwink's diary at Daily Kos - either you call everyone out or not.

Same standards for everyone or not, seems like an easy question.

And yes I think people in the administration should also have disclosed the fact he was being paid for his model, we would have expected this from a Republican administration and we should expect it from our own party.