If it was a disturbingly childish moment for the president to continue reading "My Pet Goat" after learning America was under attack, then it is an equally childish moment for Michael Moore to develop a polemic in response. But Paul Krugman asks why a polemicist should be held to a higher standard than the president. The better question is, Who will emerge from the sandbox ready to fight lies, not with polar opposite lies, but with the hard work of sound, moral and well-reasoned arguments -- in a word: truth? |