TABLES TURNED ON PAUL KRUGMAN FOR CALLING MITT ROMNEY A LIAR

Republican strategist Mary Matalin calls Krugman a liar; Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan tells Krugman his calling Romney a liar is unjust

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has consistently favored Obama and called Romney a liar in both his columns and as a guest panelist on ABC’s This Week. It’s nice to see him get a taste of his own medicine.

MARY MATALIN BLASTS PAUL KRUGMAN: ‘YOU’RE HARDLY CREDIBLE ON CALLING SOMEBODY ELSE A LIAR’
By Noel Sheppard

NewsBusters
October 7, 2012

There were serious fireworks on the set of ABC's This Week Sunday.

Mostly at odds were George W. Bush aide Mary Matalin and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman with the former eventually telling the latter, "You're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar."

From the transcript:

PEGGY NOONAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL: Barack Obama was supposed to be this sort of moderate, centrist fellow who looked at Mitt Romney, this extreme, strange fellow. By the time that debate was over, Mitt Romney seemed a completely, moderate, centrist figure who showed up as Mitt Romney the governor, not as Mitt Romney the candidate.

PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: Except that everything he used to claim his centrism wasn't true, so this is a question, does that start to take its toll over the next few months?

NOONAN: I just think that is unjust. I mean to say the very least --

KRUGMAN: When you say, “My plan cover s pre-existing conditions,” when it doesn't, and when your own campaign has admitted in the past that it doesn't, what do you say? That's amazing.

MARY MATALIN: Professor, can I ask you? You have mischaracterized and you have lied about every position in every particular of the Ryan Plan on Medicare, from the efficiency of Medicare administration to calling it a voucher plan. So you're hardly credible on calling somebody else a liar.