Krugman Hypocrisy Alert! Let's apply his standard to Sotomayor!

[Chieftain1776]

I came across this remarkable article in 2002 where Krugman goes after Trent Lott, some gems:

"Right now we're debating whether the Republican Senate majority leader is a racist who yearns for the days of segregation or just a good ole boy who says a lot of things that make it seem like he's a racist who yearns for the days of segregation." So writes Joshua Marshall, whose talkingpointsmemo.com is must reading for the politically curious, and who, more than anyone else, is responsible for making Trent Lott's offensive remarks the issue they deserve to be.

But this discussion shouldn't really be about Mr. Lott. It should be about how a man who sounds like Mr. Lott came to be leader of the Senate.
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but once the dust has settled, the people who agree with Mr. Lott get to keep him as majority leader, and get the judgeships too.
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It's about time for those of us in the press to pay attention, and let this great, tolerant nation know what's really going on."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/13/opinion/13KRUG.html

[Chieftain1776]

Oh and I should mention his response to the Sotomayor remark....wait for the outrage:

It was..."A JOKE"

"The famous line comes from a speech where she was trying to be entertaining...Have I somewhere along the line said, I’d like to think that bright Jewish kids make the best economists. I probably have somewhere along the line. It doesn’t mean anything"

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0509/Krugman_maybe_wise_Latina_line_was_a_joke.html