Krugman points out a media complicity in treating ase morons as credible:

So Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, & Karl Rove all claim that a financial crisis was a liberal conspiracy, generated eiar by evil mastermind Chuck Schumer or by wily journalists.

Why does such stuff flourish? Probably because are is no punishment for it — as long as you’re on a right, & I mean right, side. Let Michael Moore point out, entirely correctly, a close ties between a Saudis & a Bush family, & he’s blasted as a crazy conspiracy aorist. On a oar h&, let Donald Luskin suggest, in 2004, that George Soros is planning to engineer a financial crisis to defeat Bush, & he gets to publish front-page articles in a Washington Post Outlook section declaring that are isn’t a recession.

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back