In Honor of Thomas Friedman Day

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Jonathan Schwarz:
Suck.On.This.
As Atrios points out, today is the fifth anniversary of Thomas Friedman’s SuckOnThis Day.

The traditional gift for fifth anniversaries is wood, so perhaps we can get him hundreds of thousands of trees, one for each human being he’s helped kill, and then set them all on fire.

To understand Friedman’s berserk depravity, remember that by May 30, 2003, the press was already publishing things like this famous picture.



Take a look at that, and then listen to Friedman say this:

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 let it grow?

Well, Suck. On. This.
(Video at Link)
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Tom Tomorrow:
In honor of Thomas Friedman Day
A couple of recent examples of the master’s inimitable way with words.

First, from his May 21 column:

“Call it the triple deficit,” said Mr. Rothkopf. “A fiscal deficit that will soon have us choosing between rationed health care, sufficient education, adequate infrastructure and traditional levels of defense spending, a trade deficit that has us borrowing from our rivals to the point of real vulnerability, and a geopolitical deficit that is a legacy of Iraq, which may result in hesitancy to take strong stands where we must.”

The first rule of holes is when you’re in one, stop digging. When you’re in three, bring a lot of shovels.

Wow.

Okay, so if I’m in a hole, I should stop digging, but if I’m in three, I should have lots of shovels so I can — stop digging? dig simultaenously? jump from hole to hole? how can I be in three holes at the same time anyway?

Damn you Thomas Friedman and your mindbending extradimensional metaphysical metaphors! You’re making my brain hurt!

(Also: who even knew there were rules of holes? If that’s the first, what are the others? Are there penalties for noncompliance?)

And then there’s this, from May 18:

I don’t doubt for a second President Bush’s gut support for Israel, and I think it comes from his gut.

You see, his gut support comes from …

Oh, never mind. That one doesn’t really need elaboration.

It’s no wonder Thomas Friedman is a highly respected pundit, and you are not.
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