July 27, 2012
Tom Friedman as Midwife
Belén Fernández in Jacobin:
In the aftermath of Pulitzer champ Thomas Friedman’s latest New York Times offering, “Syria Is Iraq,” commentators have begun to question whether Friedman himself has not discovered the joys of Friedman-parodying.
As Matt Taibbi remarked at Rolling Stone: “This column today is so crazy I have to think Friedman is kidding.”
To put it in Friedman-speak, this is a Friedman column on steroids, a distilled cornucopia of his signature journalistic maneuvers.
More here.
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I'm getting tired of these attacks on Friedman. Ok, we get it, he's not so smart, he's middlebrow, etc. At the end of the day, he's richer and more successful than all his critics, so he's the one having the last laugh.
Posted by: Al | Jul 27, 2012 1:45:22 PM
I dunno. He has a lot of blood on his hands. He may be rich and successful, sure, but somebody with that much venom in his worldview surely has been abused as a child in some way.
And in the Karma department he's somewhere between a tapeworm and a scabies infestation.
Posted by: DrunktankDan | Jul 28, 2012 5:01:24 AM
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