at Newsbusters:
“I write to alert you to a fairly [actually, massively] egregious error in Paul Krugman's Sunday column, headlined ‘Climate of Hate’. Mr. Krugman insists that the political right - far more than their ideological counterparts on the left - are guilty of using ‘eliminationist’ rhetoric, which he defines as ‘suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.’
Mr. Krugman provides a single example of ‘eliminationist’ rhetoric from conservatives: a statement by Rep. Michele Bachmann that she wants her constituents ‘armed and dangerous.’
Mr. Krugman took those three words completely out of context, and in doing so distorted Ms. Bachmann's actual statement. The full quote reads: ‘I'm going to have materials for people when they leave. I want people armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax, because we need to fight back.’
Clearly, Ms. Bachmann was not stating her desire for a constituency that is literally ‘armed and dangerous.’ She used the phrase as a metaphor - she wanted her constituents ‘armed’ with information so that they would be ‘dangerous’ to cap and trade legislation and Democrats' energy agenda.”
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