Video: Paul Krugman and his audience eerily similar to Jim Jones and HIS audience

This is just plain creepy. It's definitely a softer version of what Jim Jones got the more than 900 people who followed him to commit suicide but it's very similar in two respects. The leader - in this case Krugman - espouses "death panels and higher taxes". The reaction he got was one of laughing approval. Who in their right mind cheers for death and taxes?

No one, which is more than enough evidence that these people are not in their right minds.

It's extremely bizarre to see and hear people cheer or laugh at something that will lead to either their own premature deaths or the premature deaths of their loved ones. It's a macabre form of groupthink and it's exactly what happened when New York Times liberal columnist Paul Krugman told an audience at an historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. last week exactly that.

Listen not to what Krugman says at about the 2:15 mark but also to how the crowd reacts.

h/t Breitbart:



Here is video of Rep. Leo Ryan (D) in Jonestown the night before more than 900 followers of Jim Jones ended their lives. Note how loudly the crowd cheers when Ryan states people in the cult think it's the "best thing that ever happened to them in their whole life".

One day later, Ryan was shot dead by Jones' thugs and all of the people who cheered, took their own lives. Is that something to cheer about?



Think it's a stretch? Do you remember the reaction Robert Reich got when, in 2007, he advocated death panels and higher health care costs while speaking at Berkeley?  In fact, the laughter Reich elicited was even more pronounced than what Krugman got. The students cheered the premature deaths of their parents as well as a future in which they would live fewer years as well.



Three weeks before Rep. Ryan showed up in Guyana in 1978, the people held a vote - led by Jones - in which they unanimously voted to commit suicide. How is what Krugman and Reich have advocated any different?

Oh, and another similarity... Jones ingratiated himself with Democrats.

Relevant portion starts at the 4:40 mark

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Video: Krugman says America Needs to be Attacked by Space Aliens

Far left kook, Paul Krugman is the poster child for how liberal the New York Times has become. He is the quintessential authority for economic talking points in left wing circles. In his mind, the stimulus didn't work because it wasn't big enough; we need to continue quantitative easing until we're out of the recession. You've heard it all before. However, it will be interesting to see if his colleagues pick up his latest bit of pabulum. Though this comes off as an attempt at an allegory, the look in Krugman's eyes coupled with his flawed belief system and the amount of time he spends on the subject kinda makes one wonder.

Via NewsBusters:

VIDEO: NYT PAUL KRUGMAN SHOWS AGAIN WHY HE'S SCUM

Folks, it truly pains me to have to go to this level of discourse but the egregiousness of people like Paul Krugman cannot be pooh poohed or dismissed. Krugman was outed as a liar when it came to the public option some time ago. He was busted on tape and hasn't been sufficiently called on it by the media.

You can see the video of that for yourself right HERE.

Today, Krugman appeared on This Week with George Stephanopolous and dismissed the Climategate emails by saying there was "no smoking gun".

NOTE: Whenever you see someone say, "What they really meant when they said that was......" 9 times out of 10 it means that there was NOTHING taken out of context in the first place.

Newsbusters has the VIDEO. Be sure to watch the second video clip on the Newsbusters site and note how nervous Krugman looks toward the end when George Will is confronting him. Krugman goes for the mug of water more out of what appears to be nervousness than actual thirst.

SCUM

VIDEO: PAUL KRUGMAN EXPOSED AS SLUG

How many bald-faced lies from the left will it take to wake people up? No, really. Has anyone (even you guys sitting this one out or sitting on the fence) stopped to think about why Obamacare proponents so consistently echo the position that this is not about Universal health care, that it's not a trojan horse, or that it's not medicare for everyone?

VERUM SERUM delivers another knockout with their latest find. New York Times columnist and confirmed scumbag (sorry, this is that egregious) openly admits that he wants Universal health care and that the notion of a public option could lead to it, which is why he's so giddy in this video from October, 2007.



The derisive moniker I gave Paul the Slug was not warranted by that video alone because that was how he legitimately felt. Calling someone names because you disagree with them isn't a good idea but doing so when they're exposed as bald-faced liars makes it a little more warranted.

Check out the Slug on a recent appearance with Stephanapolous (August, 2009) saying that the arguments against the government option (that it will lead to universal health care) are "sheer nonsense".

This guy is a sorry excuse for a human being. Go figure. He writes for the New York Times.

READING BETWEEN THE LINES OF PAUL KRUGMAN'S COLUMN

Interesting indeed. When you contrast Paul Krugman's column on August 20th with what he was caught on tape saying back in June, it becomes easier to read between the lines of what he's putting in print. What's between those lines appears to be deception.

Here, Krugman is making the point that the "public option" served as an idea that bridged the gap between democrats and mollified those who where insistent on single payer.

...the public option offered a way to reconcile differing views among Democrats. Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything short of true single-payer, Medicare-for-all reform, viewing anything less as perpetuating the flaws of our current system.

When you contrast that with what he said on videotape in June, you will see he that he understands the idea of a "public option" to in fact be a trojan horse that he advocates. Quoting Krugman talking about single payer in the video posted below:

"Politically, it's hard to do in one step."

Now back to his column.

The public option, which would force insurance companies to prove their usefulness or fade away, settled some of those qualms.

Did you catch that?

Notice how he calls for putting the onus on the Insurance companies to prove their worth on an inherently uneven playing field (government doesn't have to make a profit to stay in business). Yet, in the video below, he says the following:

"You have to convince people to completely give up the insurance they have."

So which is it, Mr. Krugman? Are you advocating raising the bar on insurance companies or enticing people away from them with taxpayer dollars?

Krugman answers that question in the video as well:

"..something that lets people keep the insurance they have but then offers the option of a public plan may be evolved into single payer. You can do it politically."

It would seem that Mr. Krugman has come full circle when he said "Politically, it's hard to do in one step."

Then in his piece, Krugman continues working toward the larger goal, trying to convince the unenlightened rabid dogs not to exit the trojan horse too soon. Doing so puts everything inside at risk. He's wanting the far left who don't "get it" to read between the lines when he says:

...it’s possible to have universal coverage without a public option — several European nations do it — and some who want a public option might be willing to forgo it if they had confidence in the overall health care strategy.

Confidence in the overall strategy? Translation: "Hey you far left rabid dog progressives, we all want the same thing here. We know you want it all now but the ends justify the means, even if they take longer. Shhhh. Stay inside the horse." What's the overall strategy, Mr. Krugman? We know. Single payer, right?

Here is Krugman's ENTIRE PIECE OF ELITIST DRECK. Fortunately, if you don't want to read between the lines of his column, he tells you what he really thinks in this video (fast forward to the :33 mark). Also note that he seems to almost eerily look into the camera at exactly the same time he may have realized he overplayed his hand.

Video courtesy of VERUM SERUM