How to Tell The REAL & the FAKE Paul Krugboy apart

Krugboy a "real" fake or just a fake fake? IT's extremely difficult as James Taranto points out thusly:

LONDON--We'll never forget where we were when the Great Virginia Earthquake of 2011 struck.

We were riding in a taxi in Cambridge. As this was the Cambridge Cambridge and not the Harvard Cambridge--we were there for a Templeton Foundation conference--we didn't feel any shaking, but we were monitoring our Twitter feed so we heard about it almost immediately. Some of our fellow conference-goers were from the Washington area; when we told them what had happened, they nervously phoned home to make sure all was well. It was.

Later that day, as HotAir.com reports, Fake Paul Krugman weighed in on the economic impact of the quake: "People on twitter might be joking," he wrote, "but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage." Former Enron adviser Real Paul Krugman was furious at the "right-wing hacks" who had mistaken Fake Krugman for him, and at Fake Krugman for stealing his material. He offered this advice on how to tell Real Krugman and Fake Krugman apart:

If you see me quoted as saying something really stupid or outrageous, and it didn't come from the [New York] Times or some other verifiable site, you should probably assume it was a fake.
That means it was Real Krugman who wrote, on Sept. 14, 2001, that the terrorist attacks three days prior could "do some economic good" because "all of a sudden, we need some new office buildings," and "rebuilding will generate at least some increase in business spending." And it was the Real Krugman, as we noted in September 2010, who described World War II as "the miracle of the 1940s" because it entailed "government activism" that spurred an economic recovery.

On the other hand, since Fareed Zakaria's show is on CNN and not the Times website, it must've been Fake Krugman who told Zakaria earlier this month: "If we discovered that . . . space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months."

After reading FZ on the Middle East in his best-selling book of flimflammery, "Fake" would be a good substitute for "Fareed" Zakaria....!!! His rendition of events and facts on both Arab/Israel and Arabian Peninsula affairs are riddled with falsehoods and unforced errors.