Posted by: Dale Franks on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 The various opinion columnists for the New York Times are now going at it over whether Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign kickoff in Mississippi was a case of Reagan's blatant atttempt to capture the all-important racist vote in the South. This trope is a particular favorite of America's Worst Columnist®, Bob Herbert. He trots it out every couple of years, and does so again today. This is, apparently, in response to David brooks, who wrote a column last Friday, pooh-poohing both Bob Herbert, who repeated the charge on Sep 25, and Paul Krugman, who wrote about it on 24 Sep. Krugman, has, by the way, brought the subject up four times in the last few years. Taranto has a complete rundown. Apparently, Paul Krugman didn't always feel that way about President Reagan. After all, Prof. Krugman worked in the Reagan White House in 1982-1983. As Taranto puts it: "The former Enron adviser is a former Reagan aide too!" |
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