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Broken Window Fallacy Sighting (Tom Friedman on Climate Change Edition)

The Glittering Eye (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Tom Friedman’s column this morning on the precautionary principle, security, and climate change is a jumble. He begins, rightly in my opinion, by whining about Dick Cheney’s “1% doctrine”: Cheney contended that the U.S. had to confront a very new type of threat: a “low-probability, high-impact event.” Soon after Suskind’s book came out, the legal scholar...

Friedman Tackles Climategate -- By: Jonah Goldberg

The Corner (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago

I have a piece for the magazine due by Friday (on Richard Ely! Who's he? Wait for it.), so I'm going to be posting lightly today. But everyone keeps sending me Tom Friedman's column . This is not an omnibus response, merely a few thoughts. First, as a couple readers noted, Friedman talks about climategate as if it's something everyone knows about. I think he's probably right. But shouldn't...

Tom Friedman: Special-Needs Pundit

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Earlier today, I noted some moronic statements from Tom Friedman (and Bob Woodward) on Meet The Press this Sunday. Jesse Walker sends me this tidbit from The World is Flat author, this time yapping on CNN with Fareed Zakaria: We're talking about Afghanistan. And we're talking about America in the middle of the great recession. I feel like we're like an unemployed couple who just went out and...

If It's Sunday, It's Moronic Statements by Tom Friedman on Meet The Press; Plus, Winning Afghan Hearts & Minds Via Shared Toilets

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

From Meet The Press yesterday, during a jabber session featuring Hot, Flat, and Stupid author Thomas Friedman and mindreader cum human tape recorder Bob Woodward: [David Gregory:] ...this week the war on Afghanistan, the war on unemployment came together. Well, ultimately, what's more consequential for the this presidency? MR. FRIEDMAN: Well, I'll tell you how you bring them together...

Tom Friedman on Afghanistan, Part II: May It All Come True

Cracker Squire (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times : President Obama certainly showed leadership mettle in going against his own party’s base and ordering a troop surge into Afghanistan. He is going to have to be even more tough-minded, though, to make sure his policy is properly executed. I’ve already explained why I oppose this escalation [see 12-02-09 post entitled "Tom Friedman...

Tom Friedman: The Brain Is Flat

Preemptive Karma (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

This is how the mind of a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner operates, metaphoring America vis-a-vis Afghanistan at present: I feel like we're like an unemployed couple who just went out and decided to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]

I See Friedman's "Yikes" and Raise

Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

By Steve Hynd Tom Friedman, when he shucks his schtick that every brown person is just a child who needs American leadership, can actually state the bleeding obvious pretty well. The president’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said flatly: “This can’t be nation-building.” And the president told a columnists’ lunch on Tuesday that he wants to avoid “mission creep”...

Tom Friedman Needs A Bigger Boat

FamousDC (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

Timely and threatening. Jake Tapper if tom friedman quotes that "we’re gonna need a bigger boat" line from Jaws one more time i will send the salahis to break into his house Share on Facebook Related posts:#Goatee Gamble: Should Chuck’s Chin Be Nervous'Bush Takes the Mic One Last Time#GoateeGamble Poster [Todd vs. Tapper] Related posts: #Goatee Gamble: Should Chuck’s...

Tom Friedman on Afghanistan: This I Believe

Cracker Squire (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

Tom Friedman writes in The New York Times : Let me start with the bottom line and then tell you how I got there: I can’t agree with President Obama’s decision to escalate in Afghanistan. I’d prefer a minimalist approach, working with tribal leaders the way we did to overthrow the Taliban regime in the first place. Given our need for nation-building at home right now, I am ready...

The Precautionary Principle

The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

Last night I was talking with a colleague about writing something on the “Precautionary Principle.” This morning I see John Miller at the Corner writing about a Tom Friedman column pushing that very principle. After raising Dick Cheney’s views on meeting low-probability threats from Al Qaeda and quoting Cass Sunstein on the precautionary principle, Friedman wrote: When...

Why Nonsense Can So Easily Be Propagated

Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

Tom Friedman: Yes, the climate-denier community, funded by big oil, has published all sorts of bogus science for years — and the world never made a fuss. That, though, is no excuse for serious climatologists not adhering to the highest scientific standards at all times. He's correct, of course. The observation that few have made a fuss about big oil's support of deniers is correct. He...

Professor of Atmospheric Science: CRU Emails “Tip...

Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

... odds of terrorist attacks at 100.0%, and the odds of CO2-induced global catastrophe at 0.0%] - WSJ Tom Friedman looks to Dick Cheney for inspiration: If a 1% chance of terrorism attacks justifies all sorts of extreme measures, then the “low-probablity, high-impact” events of climate change surely do, too. Even if global warming turns out to be a hoax, he writes, the U.S. will...

Yes, apparently we were talking to you

Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

As Atrios already noted, it's like all those Tom Friedman jokes we've made over the years, turned out to be the basis of American Foreign Policy: An Iraqi taxi driver may have been the source of the discredited claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a Tory MP claimed today. I keep thinking that this must have been the most disastrous low-point...

White House: Obama to accept Nobel as a “war president”

Hot Air (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

I'm intrigued. Tom Friedman wrote a column back in October calling on him to accept the award in the name of the U.S. military -- a "peacekeeper's prize," as Friedman put it -- and while I doubt The One will go quite that far, it sounds like he's planning ...