Paul Krugman -- blatant liar

Dr. Sanity and John Podhoretz are all over it. As she writes:

I used to get irritated by people like Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd. OK, let me be honest. People who have absolutely no regard for the truth make me very, very angry.

So, I basically stopped reading their columns long ago.

Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that Krugman has blatantly lied yet again (is the sky blue?) and John Podhoretz at the The Corner noticed.

After the 2000 election, two media panels found that Bush would have won, even if the Courts had allowed Gore to count ballots the way he wanted in the four heavily Democratic counties in Florida. Krugman wrote the opposite.

She quotes Podhoretz:

Merely by pulling up the New York Times's own electronic morgue at his desk, Krugman could have avoided making the mistake of claiming that Gore was ruled the winner in two independent media counts. If he didn't, he's lazy. If he he did, he's spectacularly dishonest. And he doesn't strike me as lazy.