Kooky Krugman: Right Has 'Gore Derangement Syndrome'

Such is life as a hack for the New York Times, you suffer so much for your hatred for the right, you can't even come up with an original term to ascribe to those you detest.

Charles Krauthammer coined the term "Bush Derangement Syndrome" years ago to describe the irrational hatred from the left for George W. Bush.

Now, psycho columnist Paul Krugman claims valid criticism of The Goracle amounts to Gore Derangment Syndrome. How original.

This piece is a massive case of projection.

Maybe Stephen Colbert should have helped him with this one.

What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?

Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr. Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.

And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so it has proved.

But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives, it’s deeply threatening.

Keep projecting. What an idiot. I guess he hasn't been reading up on the blatant distortions and misrepresentation's in Ozone Man's propaganda flick. But havings facts on your side has never mattered to Krugman.

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UPDATE: After some thought, maybe Krugman will claim the satire defense.