Paul Krugman, who ought to know better, says that a certain claim is “is no more real than Al Gore’s claim that he invented the Internet” (link).
Look, for the eight billionth time, Al Gore did not claim that he invented the internet. For details, go here and here and here.
Isn’t it time to trade the old canard for a new canard. Shouldn’t someone like Krugman, at least, be saying “no more real than the claim that Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet”? Probably nobody would much notice, but it would have the virtue of being correct.
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