‘Fake news awards’ recipients shouldn’t be hard on themselves
Jan 18, 2018, 7:33 AM | Updated: 8:15 am
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Everybody take a deep breath because according to members of Congress who attended a meeting Wednesday with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, Kelly said he’s concluded Mexico will never pay for the wall.
According to a summary of the meeting published in The Washington Post, and based on information from those who attended, Kelly said that the president’s wall promise was not based on what you might call “information.”
Kelly’s quote: “Certain things are said during the campaign that are uninformed.”
As fate would have it, just as that story was being posted, the president also finally released his fake news awards. There were 11 winners – the president always dials it up to 11. But the No. 1 winner – or I guess in this case No. 1 loser – was Paul Krugman, an unapologetically liberal New York Times columnist who “claimed on the day of President Trump’s historic, landslide victory that the economy would never recover.”
I know some fussy readers would observe that winning an election with 2.8 million fewer votes than your opponent stretches the definition of a landslide. But Krugman did, in fact, write, “We are very probably looking at a global recession with no end in sight.”
It was a prediction which clearly hasn’t happened.
But don’t let the fake news award get you down, Paul. Hey, I know a guy who predicted Mexico would pay for the wall and he’s doing fine.
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