Krugman- Apparatchiks

[n2doc]

May 17, 2011, 9:42 AM
Via Mark Thoma, Brendan Nyhan catches the Tax Foundation trying to disappear some apparently accidental honesty.

The story goes like this: the Wall Street Journal had a deeply dishonest editorial claiming that taxes on the rich can’t help with out budget problems. (Are you surprised?) There were actually multiple problems with the editorial; Jonathan Chait pointed out that it repeatedly compared apples with oranges, that if you actually read the numbers straight the editorial disproved its own point. None of this was surprising.

What was surprising was that the Tax Foundation, which normally produces a fair bit of disinformation itself, actually published a blog post pointing out that the chart accompanying the editorial was a classic case of how to lie with numbers. Was the Tax Foundation actually taking a stand for intellectual honesty?

Well, guess what: the blog post has now vanished — although not before a number of people cached it. As the people at Heritage could have told them, memory holes just don’t work like they used to.

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/apparatchiks-2/

[KittyWampus]

1. I'd like to think the Left has its own version of the Elves when I hear stories like this.

[closeupready]

2. There we go. Kudos to Krugman for catching them on their BS.

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[Qutzupalotl]

3. I thought an apparatchik was another word for transvestite.