Paul Krugman is not an idiot, although he plays one regularly in the pages of the New York Times. What he is is an intensely partisan flack for what Rush Limbaugh calls "the Ruling Class".

You would think that a smart guy like Krugman might have some talent for polemics but you'd never be able to tell from the flailing, Hillaryesque claims of a vast right-wing conspiracy concerning climate-gate.

First of all, we didn’t fail to act because of legitimate doubts about the science. Every piece of valid evidence — long-term temperature averages that smooth out year-to-year fluctuations, Arctic sea ice volume, melting of glaciers, the ratio of record highs to record lows — points to a continuing, and quite possibly accelerating, rise in global temperatures.

Nor is this evidence tainted by scientific misbehavior<. You’ve probably heard about the accusations leveled against climate researchers — allegations of fabricated data, the supposedly damning e-mail messages of “Climategate,” and so on. What you may not have heard, because it has received much less publicity, is that every one of these supposed scandals was eventually unmasked as a fraud concocted by opponents of climate action, then bought into by many in the news media. You don’t believe such things can happen? Think Shirley Sherrod.

Notice the absolutism. EVERY claim was exposed as a fraud, and the climate scientists where TOTALLY innocent and the opponents of climate action the dastardly VILLAINS. In fact, the emails where acknowledged to be authentic by everyone, and no allegations of fraud or manipulation where made during even the subsequent incestuous investigations.

The apologia relied on the tried and true methodology of the entire climate change hoax with fallacious appeals to authority. University administrators at East Anglia, the UK government and Penn State University--all institutions with their reputations and credibility at risk, absolved the email authors albeit damning them with faint praise as it concerned their methods, use of statistics and 'unhelpfulness' to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Climate change evaporated as a public issue almost over night as conspirators worked to flush everything down the memory hole.

Apparently Krugman didn't get the memo.

This is how the Left manages to perpetuate their various myths into perpetuity--holding candle-light vigils for executed spies Ethel and Julius Rosenbery, even after Soviet-era documents confirmed they were everything that they were accused of being.

On the other hand, clumsy rhetoric like this is bound to alienate all but the most rabidly ideological readers. You go Paul!