By: COBRA!
The school where I work has a featured speaker every fall. And there's a row of posters in a prominent hallway commemorating past speakers. During the interview process, I was pretty excited about this...
View ArticleBy: tonycpsu
1adam12: "Even Matt Taibbi, who kind of started the "Thomas Friedman sucks" train, noted recently that this has turned into something of a pile-on."A slight change of tune.
View ArticleBy: Gelatin
Following on: The NYT "public editor" recently opined that blogging at the NYT gave Nate Silver credibility, for crying out loud.
View ArticleBy: Gelatin
As anyone knows, the best way to do battle with an oppressive worldview is to create a competing one. There's the wee matter of managing to get your opposing worldview to replace a famous but lame-ass...
View ArticleBy: 3.2.3
However, somehow I didn't realize until now that the man has won the Pulitzer Prize on three separate occasions. Wow. Prizes really don't mean anything anymore. Oh, it's worse than you think. He was...
View ArticleBy: fullerine
You know what is particularly entertaining about this sentence? The book it comes from ("The Lexus and the olive tree") was published in 1999. McDonnell Douglas (which was infamously badly managed) had...
View ArticleBy: Panjandrum
> Has there really been so much Friedman bashing that we've actually turned the corner into feeling kind of bad for the guy? Nope, excoriations of Friedman have become their own corpus of...
View ArticleBy: MartinWisse
Nobody needs to feel sorry for Tom Friedman, who has made a very nice living being a propagandist for capitalism and neverending wars, but I repeat myself.
View ArticleBy: Ironmouth
I will never forget railing on him for his inane "3 things" trope and then going over to NYT to see that he'd written another "3 things" column.
View ArticleBy: brennen
Has there really been so much Friedman bashing that we've actually turned the corner into feeling kind of bad for the guy? I don't think I can do it.
View ArticleBy: Shit Parade
I think of Friedman as the McDonald's of opinion - successful, consistent, and depending on snobbery passable. in high school i enjoyed the lexus and olive tree. it was informative maybe not the global...
View ArticleBy: Skeptic
Indeed, McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. You know what is particularly entertaining about this sentence? The book it comes from ("The Lexus...
View ArticleBy: Diablevert
Exactly, if his ideas are so wrong, and you know the 'right thing', why not write that? Yes, but he gets to be wrong on the Op-Ed page of the Times, whereas you'd get to be right on page 182 of the...
View ArticleBy: Monday, stony Monday
The excerpt is pretty underwhelming. Maybe it's because Friedman tends to contradict himself so much that it's hard to build a thesis that you would then systematically attack, or because it doesn't...
View ArticleBy: ovvl
hubris, clichéd jingoism, Orientalism, favoritism of Israel, self-contradiction... If you add the word "Dickensian" to this, then you win a Pulitzer Prize.
View ArticleBy: smoke
Criticisn Friedman is a bit redundant, these days, isn't it? A) it's shooting fish, not in a barrel, but rather a thimble. B) It serves no purpose; people who listen to him, do not listen to you, and...
View ArticleBy: jamjam
These links actually raised my opinion of Friedman. At least he sees that only the US military stands between us and the catastrophic fall in our standard of living which would result from a more...
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