The NY Times fact checkers fail Krugman again

Jon Henke:

Greg Mankiw finds a good example of Paul Krugman's selective memory...
George Bush at the 2004 Republican Convention:
We must strengthen Social Security by allowing younger workers to save some of their taxes in a personal account — a nest egg you can call your own, and government can never take away.
Paul Krugman in today's NY Times:
...in 2004, President Bush basically ran as America's defender against gay married terrorists. He waited until after the election to reveal that what he really wanted to do was privatize Social Security.
Perhaps Krugman missed all of the Kerry/Bush debates, in which Bush said things like "I believe that younger workers ought to be allowed to take some of their own money and put it in a personal savings account..." Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he missed that. And perhaps Paul Krugman also missed this quote from 2004...
If Mr. Bush wins in November, we can be sure that they will move forward on privatization — the creation of personal retirement accounts.
....which was written by a fellow named Paul Krugman.
Krugman really is that sloppy. He is keeping the fact checkers in the blogs busy.

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