Paul Krugman April Fools’ Day column launched another attack on Bernie Sanders. In it he announces that he, a strong Hillary Clinton supporter, is ‘Dad’ and gets to set the rules for candidates – ‘it’s time to lay out some guidelines for good and bad behavior.’ This is a lot like John McEnroe giving lectures on tennis etiquette. Two sentences later, Krugman mocks voters for Sanders in ‘very white states,’ which is a pretty clear example of ‘bad behavior.’ Tellingly, Krugman is oblivious to his bad behavior. Krugman ends with this patronizing and insulting sentence: ‘Sanders doesn’t need to drop out, but he needs to start acting responsibly.’ Krugman is obviously itching to instruct Bernie to ‘drop out’ and hand the contest to his candidate.
First, the Sanders campaign needs to stop feeding the right-wing disinformation machine. Engaging in innuendo suggesting, without evidence, that Clinton is corrupt is, at this point, basically campaigning on behalf of the RNC.
There is something quite wonderful to using false ‘innuendo’ to falsely declare a rival candidate guilty of using ‘innuendo.’ But it gets better – for Krugman’s ‘second’ basis for attacking Bernie and his staff is that they have a ‘conflict of interest.’
This post was published at Wall Street Examiner by William Black ‘ April 5, 2016.
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