The Krug-Man

When Paul Krugman became a columnist for The New York Times eight years ago, to many he traded respectability for visibility. His over-the-top Bush bashing has been noticeable even on the Grey Lady's editorial page.

But now that Bush is leaving, it's interesting to see what he'll take on next. His latest, "Hate Springs Eternal," is an odd piece. He's a Hillary sort of guy and complains, with some justification, that Obama supporters are much more venomous than Hillary supporters, and treat any criticism of their man as unfair if not racist.

But look at how he backs this up. He believes there are special "Clinton rules" that allow them to be attacked over nothing. He looks back at Bill's term of office and says how unfairly the media dumped on them, and apparently the same thing is happening now.

Hold on a second. As far as I'm concerned, both then and now, the main thing the media did was report on controversies that Clinton's were involved in. Let's not forget Bill was impeached and later disbarred. And now Hillary is in a close and heated race, so the accusations are going to fly. But even if I thought the media were behind all this, does Krugman seriously want me to believe that just as today they try to help Obama, they used to slant things to make Ken Starr look good?