Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty was hoping to get some media attention for his near instantaneous response to President Obama's reelection video posted on youtube. What he probably didn't expect was for his blockbuster themed 30-second spot to almost completely fizzle. In fact, if it were not for Paul Krugman, it likely would have been missed all together.
The New York Times economy columnist played a very small bit part in the video, where he flashed across the screen for a few seconds stating "Washington has given up on the jobs picture."
As Politico notes, Krugman's appearance that the soundbite is parsed from actually is an argument for the government to spend more money on financial stimulus, something Pawlenty has stood in opposition of.
"[T]he tragedy is that Washington has given up on the jobs picture. It's not that — it's not a failure of policy. I think the policies that we have undertaken made things less bad than they would have been. But here we are with still terrible unemployment rate, 37 weeks the average unemployed person is unemployed. And no interest in Washington about doing anything to create jobs."
Krugman, meanwhile, made sure to jab Pawlenty on his lack of financial policy knowledge.
"Pawlenty — who knows so little about the whole subject that he fell for a well-known zombie claim (killed by facts, but still shambling along) about soaring government employment — is hardly qualified to lecture anyone else on the issue.
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