The 'Stache of Understanding will not be silenced.
There are some people and some topics that should never, ever be allowed to come into contact with each other again.
Brownie on New Orleans.
Cheney on respect for the rule of law.
Rumsfeld on humility.
Colin Powell on honor.
Karl Rove on piety
Bush on foreign policy.
Bush on domestic policy.
Bush on environmental policy.
Bush on economic policy.
Bush on educational policy.
Bush on Christianity.
Bush on, hell, basic grammar or arithmetic.
And Tom Friedman on Iraq.
These are all people -- a short subset of a long and tragic roll of dishonor -- who have absolutely no credibility left.
None. At. All.
So when Mr. Suck On This
-- the father of the Friedman Unit -- leans back into the front seat with the grown ups to once again start yammering out declarative sentences and his trademark little rabbit pellets of unctuous know-it-all helpfulness, the fact that he is a thoroughly 3rd rate hack who poops out columns for the New York Fucking Times by recycling 20-year-old pilfered wisdom through his Bob Greene Folksy Wisdomator3000 is not what makes my flesh crawl.
It is simply that, any words on the subject of Iraq from Thomas Friedman other than a hand-written note reading "I am so, so, so, so fucking sorry" that he pins to his lapel as he walks into the sea come freighted with so much history, stupidity, blood and loss that the thought of him daring to touch the subject again makes me terribly sad.
And the thought of this dribbler collecting a pay check for doing it makes me physically ill.
10 comments:
Nice rant Hoss, you just take too much time to get there, still . . . crushing evidence, no doubt. PURE, too.
But Drifty, how do we shut this putz up?
Gimme an email task, a labor of teh Hercules, a raison de etre, a means to tell someone, YER FUCKED UP!!!
Gimme a list . . . cuz they ARE fucked up!!!
With hope and love, yer on it and I thank ya.
Harumph.
Dude's worth like four billion dollars. No shit.
Someone needs to burst the Friedman Bubble and say, once and for all, Tommy, suck on this. That was the most morally and intellectually bankrupt analysis I have ever seen and could never have imagined.
These are the schmucks who are running the country folks. How come?
Because the Noam Chomsky's, Juan Cole's, Amy Goodman's and Barrack Obama's would make them face their demons.
Because the MSM who keep trotting out these pustules for our consumption don't want to FIX anything. For them it ain't broken. It's what 20% of this country is built upon and it's their 10% that is profitting from it, so in their eyes, there is nothing to fix.
Just make it sound plausible. Assure the folks in the hinterlands that just as soon as we have defeated this invisible enemy, things for them will improve and that in no way, shape or form is what "we" are doing causing any of these manifest problems. It's all THEM.
So just go shopping.
Nice roadmap as usual Sir Glass.
I hope you sent that rant to the Times as well as posting here.
I suggest a new unit of measurement for the Friedman unit besides another six months to victory, how far a pundits head is up their ass.
Tom has six Friedman units today in his new column.
His head is up his ass so far he can tickle his tonsils.
I keep wondering what it is that makes these gazillionaires get out of bed everyday and spout the pus-enhancing BS that almost everyone knows is pure and total.
Is it true that in 20 years time if you aren't worth over 100 million, you will not be able to afford food and clothing?
Because that would expose the game dead on and bring the house to order.
Suzan
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"We needed to send our young men and women over there going door to door saying, 'Suck on this!!!'" What a parsimonious toady.
About staying another FY (Friedm...)because we might win something: Every gambler knows you don't throw good money after bad.
It's not Cindy, but "W" who is the cunt.
Rock on, Drifty.
Is that the same Bob Greene that wrote American Beat? I just hapoened to be facing it when I read that part of your post.
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