On which they'll ride to Washington?
The 'Stache that Wouldn't Die
sat down with Republican Senator Linday Graham, who he found to be all reasonable and centrist-y on the subject of carbon pollution.
His conclusion?
Ignoring the fact that the GOP has been ruthlessly purging its centrists and accelerating exponentially faster in exactly the opposite direction of "reasonable" for 30 years, Tom Friedman opines:
Five more G.O.P. senators like him and we could have a real energy bill.
Well sure.
And six more months in Iraq and we may just turn this thing around!
Look, some writers always shoot for the silver lining in things; the dove that returns in the evening, after the storm, with the olive leaf in her mouth. Nothing wrong with that, but that is emphatically not what Friedman traffics in.
Friedman hustles simpering, centrist bullshit.
He hustles it in a way that is always, always, always carefully calibrated to avoid offending the Republican CEOs ans Chambers of Commerce stiffs who buy his fawning, globalist twaddle by the job lot and force their middle managers to study it like holy writ.
And he hustles it on the Op Ed pages of the NYT.
But what pisses me off most of all?
Friedman is just a goddamn awful writer.
UPDATE: An FYI for those of you who helpfully suggest that impertinent comments like these be "sent to the New York Times". Please know that, occasionally, I do.
Even as you are free to do :-)
I post them, in the only venue available to the general public.
Where they are held for "moderation".
Shortly after which they somehow tend to v-a-n-i-s-h into the pellucid digital ether.
Mission Accomplished!
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(I can tell it's you, btw.... That mask doesn't fool anyone.)
***The NYT: Tossing Pearls Before Turkey-Vultures***
Moderation Limbo Syndrome is frustrating ... but take comfort: you're in plenty of good company.
It gives me a certain juvenile "badass" buzz every time someone decides that whatever unpalatable truisms I just expressed on their blog are just so fucking harsh that their deleting of said truisms must ensue, because the legions of helpless children & mental invalids who innocently surf the Interwebs must be shielded from my extreme level of scalding evilhood.
That it also confirms my suspicions that they'd have to chew on some STFU Pie & take it (a public reply to a deleted post is serious meta-fail) because their particular paradigm is a tepid puddle of shite with all the mental rigour of a cardhouse in a tornado is mere gravy.
Ah, yes, Friedman's writing is often atrocious and always a tremendous waste of trees.
I think Taibbi's takedown of The World is Flat is probably the best exegesis of Friedman's turns of phrase, but, this one isn't bad, either.
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