So, it turns out the Google Plus Krugman incident was a hoax. Kevin Williamson doubted it last night on The Corner, I doubted it last night on Twitter (here, here, here and here), and I doubted it was real in my post this morning. Yet this is what Krugman posted:

Well, this is interesting. I hear that the not-so-good people at National Review are attacking me over something I said on my Google+ page. Except, I don’t have a Google+ page.

That was posted at 9:24 a.m. My post was at 6:45 a.m. Here’s what I did before I wrote my post. I checked Media Matters. Nothing. I checked his blog at NYTimes.com. Nothing.I checked Newsbusters. Nothing. I checked Google News for any sense it was a hoax. Nothing.

And for this, I’ve attacked him?