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Paul Krugman lectures Hillary Clinton on how important it is to admit error:

Many people are perplexed by the uproar over Senator Hillary Clinton’s refusal to say, as former Senator John Edwards has, that she was wrong to vote for the Iraq war resolution. Why is it so important to admit past error?...

For the last six years we have been ruled by men who are pathologically incapable of owning up to mistakes. And this pathology has had real, disastrous consequences. ...

The experience of Bush-style governance, together with revulsion at the way Karl Rove turned refusal to admit error into a political principle, is the main reason those ... words... “I was wrong” matter so much to the Democratic base.

When has Krugman ever admitted to any of his many errors, be they accidental or deliberate, without being dragged kicking and screaming by people like me or New York Times "public editors" Dan Okrent or Barney Calame? Here's Okrent on Krugman's willingness to deal with errors in his columns:

I learned early on in this job that Prof. Krugman would likely be more willing to contribute to the Frist for President campaign than to acknowledge the possibility of error. When he says he agreed “reluctantly” to one correction, he gives new meaning to the word “reluctantly”; I can’t come up with an adverb sufficient to encompass his general attitude toward substantive criticism.

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