I wonder if Tommy Friedman still thinks we needed to bust the bubble of terrorism by sending our boys over to Baghdad and have them take out their big sticks and demand that the Arabs suck.on.this? I ask this because Tommy is still being taken seriously on my teevee.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Sad to say the November 10th issue of the New Yorker has a sycophantic profile:
The Bright Side.
He comes across as weird.
The New Yorker is so schizophrenic. My gift subscription ran out in May, and I don’t miss it. The schmaltz, the puff pieces on the powerbrokers, like Friedman, made me ill. Of course, there’s some great reporting at the same time. Is this fair and balanced when your stomach is turning from having too many salt water taffy’s and then get hit by a piece by Jane Meyer on global warming or Sy Hersch on Special Ops in Iran?
Uncalled Senate races Watch
DEVELOPING IN ALASKA..it ain’t over. 7:14 PM ET
November 12, 2008
Stevens-Begich vote count narrows from 3000 down to 971
Looking good.
Begich up by 3!
Nate Silver’s calculations make prove out for Begich. One more seat. See what tomorrow and next week’s counts produce.
I guess if you have a book to hawk, you get on teevee. Olbermann and Jon Stewart both had him on this week already.
People who don’t know anything about the ME – even some generally pretty smart ones – seem to view him as some kind of guru. It makes me want to puke every time.
And they say, “But he’s been to the Middle East.” And I say, “And he talked to a taxi driver.”
In English, not in Arabic.
I can think of another “functional” scenario to describe Tommy Boy. I won’t. I’ll get kicked off the site.
give him an FU and he’ll be born again.
the man’s a shameless whore.
Beirut, Lebanon.
17th century church, Lebanon
Boys playing in a tidepool, Arwad Island, off Tartous, Syria.
“Bath house from the Ottoman period, Arwad Island, off Tartous, Syria.“
His performance on Rachel Maddow was just shameful tonight. I was hoping she would point out his lack of testicular matter but she seemed to give him a pass.
Someone needs to tell him to grow a pair. He did everything but kiss Lieberman’s ring.
Somehow I would be surprised to see Rachel Maddow equate the lack of testicles with gutlessness.
Who, Tom Friedman? It isn’t testicular matter that he lacks, it is substance. He DOES possess an overabundance of chutzpah.
It seems to me you are giving him far more importance than is warranted. Thomas Friedman is nothing more than a self-important, overblown bag of hot gaseous substance. His opinions are irrelevant to anything real.
I found two of his books at a dollar apiece at one of my local bookstores. At that price, I bought them. chuckles quietly
OK, wellm, you only paid $1 apiece more than they are worth. But what are you going to use them for? The pages are too small for birdcage liners, and too harsh to use as toilet paper.
Oh – you were talking about Evan Bayh.
Nevermind.