The Invisible Library

Paul Krugman is, as TBogg points out, increasingly becoming every bloggers go-to guy for biting criticism of BushCo. If you think I’m just blowing purple smoke, check out his new op-ed piece, The Arabian Candidate:

In the original version of ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Senator John Iselin, whom Chinese agents are plotting to put in the White House, is a right-wing demagogue modeled on Senator Joseph McCarthy. As Roger Ebert wrote, the plan is to ‘use anticommunist hysteria as a cover for a communist takeover.’

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So let’s imagine an update - not the remake with Denzel Washington, which I haven’t seen, but my own version. This time the enemies would be Islamic fanatics, who install as their puppet president a demagogue who poses as the nation’s defender against terrorist evildoers.

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