Crazy Hour

Paul Krugman takes a look back:

One thing that has been sort of written out of the mainstream history of politics is the sheer insanity of the attacks on the Clintons — they were drug smugglers, they murdered Vince Foster (and lots of other people), they were in league with foreign powers. And this stuff didn’t just show up in fringe publications — it was discussed in Congress, given props by the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, and so on.

And he warns: “What happens when Obama is elected? It will be even worse than it was in the Clinton years.” I’d say that’s about right. The frenzy of Clinton hatred mostly took place amidst an otherwise calm national and international situation, and without the added undercurrent of racial antagonism. Look at this:

Even now, Fox News and much of the rest of conservative media is prepping the country to believe that electoral victory was within John McCain’s grasp and only stolen way through some nefarious ACORN conspiracy.