Paul Krugman Uncovers Smoking Gun Evidence Linking Scott Brown to Republican Party

As the Democrats wheeze toward the finish line in Massachusetts and they thrown everything they can as Scott Brown, the kooks came up with a "bombshell" today in this now discovered interview from September 2008.

Marvel at the breathlessness with which New York Times crackpot Paul Krugman runs with it.

Wow. A video clip has surfaced from 2008 in which Scott Brown, the Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, clearly suggested that President Obama may have been born out of wedlock.

I’m sure some will try to dismiss this as an isolated stray remark. But it’s clear if you watch the video that there’s a broader context: Brown is clearly aligning himself with the Limbaugh wing of the GOP, in which slurs along these lines are standard fare. And as Steve Benen points out, claims about Obama’s illegitimacy were an integral part of the birther craziness.

Nowhere in the video clip, of course, is Rush Limbaugh even mentioned, and Brown's throwaway line at the end questioned not whether Obama was born in the U.S., rather he claimed he may have been born out of wedlock. Needless to say, a big difference.

In Krugman's fantasy world, there's clearly some nefarious bias at work here.

So will this actually make political waves? If Brown were a Democrat, it would instantly be a huge scandal. The outrage machine would be working overtime. And the news media would, of course, pick it up.

The same media that this week blatantly misreported the John McCormick incident with Coakley's hired muscle on loan from Obama. Oh right, that was the Boston Globe, owned by Krugman's employer.

If this is supposed to be some game-changing outrage, this race is over.