Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008 - YouTube
Seriously, Thomas Friedman is an asshole.
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Atrios notes that five years ago today, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman told Charlie Rose what he believed the war in Iraq was essentially about telling people in the Middle East to “suck on this” after 9/11: FRIEDMAN: You don’t think, you know, we care about our open society. You think this bubble fantasy, [...]
Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
You would think that advocating indiscriminate killing of people in some Middle Eastern country - any country will do! - just "because we could" would be the kind of thing which would cause people to respond with disgust and revlusion, and perhaps revoke your NYT columnist card. But, as we've learned so many times over the years, there's really nothing you can say or write about the awesomeness of...
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 05/31/2008
Atrios reminds us that its been five years to the day that Friedman shared this wonderful sentiment with America. Friedman: What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand'” You don’t think, you know we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna...
Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Forget celsius and fahrenheit, fathom and furlong. When the story of the online media revolution is told, people will wonder where the ubiquitous term for a six-month interval known as an "FU" came from. Ezra Klein and Spazeboy will laugh knowingly over strained peas at the old folk's home and tell the tale of Little Tommy Friedman, who in the olden days suffered from a somewhat Freuidian affliction...
Sort by TalkLeft (Free subscription) - 08/08/2008
The great thing about Paul Krugman, and something bloggers should learn from, he is not afraid to take on other pundits, even those on his own team. Atrios gets the chance to riff off of the Tom Friedman "Suck on This" video yet again because Krugman calls out Friedman. Here is the video: Here is what Krugman wrote : I heard a number of people express privately the argument that some influential commentators...
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Five years, or 10 F.U.s, ago today, America's leading foreign affairs public intellectual explained the Iraq war to us. I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie. ... We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big state right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it. ... What they needed to see...
Sort by MyDD (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
It's the 5 year anniversary of Thomas Friedman giving the world his "Suck. On. This." rationale for the Iraq war. Charming. Treason and market failure exemplified. Lies about the expensive war in Afghanistan : it isn't cheap just because there weren't many good targets . Long-term bases in Iraq get a thumbs down from a prominent Shia cleric. Who thought it was a good idea for US troops to prosyletize...
Sort by Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Duncan Black has commanded us to spend tomorrow celebrating our great good fortune in having geniuses like Thomas Friedman shaping our foreign policy thinking, and wonderful newspapers like the New York Times to publish them. Here's Duncan: Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of Tom Friedman going on Charlie Rose and telling the world that the Iraq war was fought to tell Iraqis to "Suck On This"...
Sort by The Impolitic (Free subscription) - 05/31/2008
By Libby Atrios reminds us that today marks the unhappy anniversary of Little Tommy Friedman's immoral Freudian fantasy. "Five years, or 10 F.U.s, ago today, America's leading foreign affairs public intellectual explained the Iraq war to us." Atrios modestly fails to mention that it was at this time he coined the phrase, Friedman Unit, to describe Friedman's souless excuse for analysis but Jane remembers...
Sort by D-Day (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Suck. On. This. Deep thoughts from a man who thinks that murdering innocent civilians randomly around the Arab world - because we can - is a sound foreign policy. And as much as this is a moral catastrophe, it's also factually incorrect. Our going over and shooting Muslims didn't stop terrorism - it inflamed it. What would have stopped terrorism was bringing the actual terrorists who caused 9/11 to...
Sort by Moon of Alabama (Free subscription) - 07/28/2008
Somehow SecState Rice got Friedman wrong. Compare to Friedman at 2:25min. Then again. She's black. Racism explains most of Friedman's vermin. Is she protesting that? I doubt it. pic via FCL
Sort by Hecate (Free subscription) - 01/15/2008
What The Snake Goddess Said .
Sort by Main St. USA (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
Atrios: Happy Suck On This Day I think it [the invasion of Iraq] was unquestionably worth doing, Charlie. ... We needed to go over there, basically, um, and um, uh, take out a very big stick right in the heart of that world and burst that bubble, and there was only one way to do it. ... What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad,...
Sort by The Garlic (Free subscription) - 08/02/2008
As the bathrobe-clad Stumblin' Bumblin John McCain continues his stumblin' and bumblin, the John McCain Fan Club media can't make the donuts fast enough ... And John Cole, over on Balloon Juice , captures it perfectly The Voices In Jake Tapper’s Head The title of his post is “Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign'” He then goes on at length to extol the virtues of John McCain,...
Sort by Late Reviews and Latest Obsessions (Free subscription) - 05/30/2008
This fucking stain is permanent. I'm not sure there's a column that could be written that would make up for your role in the agonized deaths of thousands. It's times like this that I wish a hell did exist. Suck on this, Moustache Man!
