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Apparatchiks in the Right Wing Misinformation Machine

Apparatchiks in the Right Wing Misinformation Machine
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Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Adjunct Professor, LBJ School, University of Texas

Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Adjunct Professor, LBJ School, University of Texas
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What do Amity Shales, George F. Will, Mark Levey, Harold L. Cole, Lee E. Ohanian, Tyler Cowen, Andrew B. Wilson, Greg Gutfeld, and Jeff Jacoby all have in common? They have all published articles in recent months opposing the President's economic stimulus package and all for exactly the same reason: the New Deal proved that economic stimulus does not work.

Aside from the remarkable syncopation of their discovery and exposition of this important information, there is one other important aspect to their journalistic endeavors. The argument they each make is completely false. The New Deal contained virtually no stimulus and clearly would have been far more effective if it had.

Read "Selective Keynesians" recently post on the Center for American Progress Website.

Scott Lilly is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progres

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