[lbo-talk] Angry Arab on Thomas Friedman
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 6 11:57:56 PST 2011
Thomas Friedman is too silly to comment on. I don't want to comment on his
silly comment today, but I would like people to go back to archives and find me
words of praise that he had written for Mubarak over the years. Also, what is
most annoying about him is this; whenever he goes to developing countries, he
always has quotations attributed to "my friend Muhammad" or "my friend Kim" or
whatever. Suspiciously, the quotations from those "friends" seem to always
confirm his own thesis about everything and they all speak in shallow English,
just like him. And they all suspiciously sound like one another, as in: "My
friend Muhammad in Jordan tells me that government is like Falafil." In South
Korea, the quotation becomes: "My friend Kim in South Korea tells me that
government is like Kimchi." And so on. Also, if you add the number of
"friends" cited by Friedman, they can easily add up to thousands of people
dispersed around the world. A man with thousands of friends is a man with no
friends at all. I don't know why, but I always felt sorry for Friedman's
daughters. I can imagine their agony in long car ride with his annoying laugh
and boring stories in the front seat. I would rather be raised by monkeys than
raised by Thomas Friedman--and the monkeys would have better insights on foreign
affairs, and they would have more complex ideas in their heads, but that is just
me.
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