Paul Krugman was on Larry King Live last night at, along with Stephen Moore and Andy Serwer. After refuting Moore’s typical nonsense, Krugman had this to say about Serwer:
But Serwer’s comments were what bothered me the most. He was saying that Obama and McCain are equally off on the financial crisis. I said that’s not true: Obama has called for expanded regulation, while McCain takes his advice from people like Phil Gramm, who helped create this mess. Plus McCain’s new line denouncing excessive executive bonuses makes no sense: Washington doesn’t set executive compensation! Unless McCain is willing to say what he’d actually do, it’s empty posturing.
And Serwer’s response? “That’s awfully partisan.”
So there you have it: if the facts have a liberal bias, pointing them out is excessively partisan.
As Stephen Colbert explained at the White House Correspondents Dinner a couple years back, “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
