Hi,

Donald Luskin, an economic advisor of McCain, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday called "Quit Doling Out That Bad-Economy Line".
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8091202415.html

When I went to Yahoo images to find a picture of this person, I was surprised to see that MOST of the images that a search for “Donald Luskin” returned on the first screen of photos were of actually pictures of Paul Krugman.

Some fascist/neocon tool is misidentifying images of Krugman and trying to fool some of our less-aware citizens into thinking that the next time they see Krugman on TeeVee, they should just ignore anything that he may have to say because he is the idiot who wrote that reality-defying article in the Post.

Is there anything that can be done to correct this deliberate distortion?

Dr. Lightning


*Look below to see the first few paragraphs of the embarrassing Luskin article from September 14th in the Washington Post:


""It was the worst of times, and it was the worst of times."

I imagine that's what Charles Dickens would conclude about the current condition of the U.S. economy, based on the relentless drumbeat of pessimism in the media and on the campaign trail. In the past two months, this newspaper alone has written no fewer than nine times, in news stories, columns and op-eds, that key elements of the economy are the worst they've been "since the Great Depression." That diagnosis has been applied twice to the housing "slump" and once to the housing "crisis," to the "severe" decline in home prices, to the "spike" in mortgage foreclosures, to the "change" in the mortgage market and the "turmoil" in debt markets, and to the "crisis" or "meltdown" in financial markets.

It's a virus -- and it's spreading. Do a Google News search for "since the Great Depression," and you come up with more than 4,500 examples of the phrase's use in just the past month.

But that doesn't make any of it true. Things today just aren't that bad. Sure, there are trouble spots in the economy, as the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and jitters about Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers, amply demonstrate. And unemployment figures are up a bit, too. None of this, however, is cause for depression -- or exaggerated Depression comparisons."

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/224978...ae201f1.jpg?v=0

Here's a nice picture of Donald Luskin.

Why would you post a picture of yourself in the leisure suit your Mom picked out for you? Bored?

I'm wondering if the tactic of misidentifying political images on the Internet is very wide-spread, or just a minor inconvenience. Does any intellectually mature reader have any information on the topic?

Thanks.

So you're pro-Luskin, anti-Krugman?

If I am a little upset because someone is trying to associate pictures of Krugman with the McCain advisor who has earned the nickname "the stupidest man in the world" because he wrote a glowing article about the USA economy THE DAY BEFORE the stock markets tanked like hasn't been seen since the 1920's . . .

You think I might be a Luskin fan . . . because???

Dr. L

Because you dissed me when I posted a picture of Luskin giving the finger. It was an attestment to his sleazy character. Perhaps you took it the wrong way.

I have to apologize.

I didn't look at the link you posted in your first response.
I just saw your picture and assumed that it was your personal image you were referring to.
I assumed that if you would have uploaded the picture, instead of sending a link.
Totally my mistake.

I saw the picture of Luskin flipping the finger too.

I am wondering . . .

If I got so ticked when I saw what some guy did to Krugman's image . . .

Maybe I should return the dirty trick.

How can I get a picture of a pig wearing lipstick to come up first on Yahoo when I do a search for an image of Sarah Palin???

Dr. L

When I first looked at the Yahoo results,
I saw the picture of Luskin flipping the finger too.

I did not follow the link you sent.

So, I was wrong to insult your leisure suit.
I have one JUST like it.
I wore it to the Barry O'bama rally yesterday.

;-)

Dr. L