I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
moustache first
Well, suck on this.
John has a long moustache
what. a. fuckin. dick.
moustache marrid money
if he sold his house, just think of all the guns and bullets he could provide
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to the local cops all accross the country that are feeling the effects of a shortage and price increase 'cus of the billion a year we are shooting in iraq
Zip! He's an in-tel-lectu-al!
Did I miss the snacks?
Saturday evening on the screen porch.
I think Ripley thinks deeper thoughts than Friedman.
This thinking, which could probably be best described as the Glenn Reynolds school of foreign policy is, aside from being evil, fucking stupid.
It's the foreign policy equivalent of wearing a wedge of styrafoam cheese on one's head and painting one's bare pot belly and manboobs purple while screaming from the stands at the 30-yard-line in sub-freezing temperatures.
Fucking stupid and unsightly, but those are the guys that get on the tee vee.
But he's a public intellectual!
You mean pubic inta-maleck-shoe-all, don't you, A-tree-us?
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I wish I was rich enough to be able to insulate myself from humanity and the need to possess any empathy or compassion.
Police seeing bullet shortage
Law enforcement makes do as military demand increases
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
news...0,4556616.story
Well Ann Coulter has more teevee appearances and poorly citationed books than Duncan Black..of cousre she is a public intellectual.
cspan has the court of appeals Alice-in-Wonderland arguments about the illegal wiretapping.
these sociopathic republicans laugh at democrats for caring about people
modern politics in a wingnut shell
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No, he isn't. Stop saying things like this and he'll have a hard time getting paid as tho he were.
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Sept. 11 happened because America had lost its deterrent capability. We lost it because for 20 years we never retaliated against, or brought to justice, those who murdered Americans.
Except for, you know, Bill Clinton who caught the people who tried to bomb the World Trade Center during his administration, tried them, and put them in jail.
Abu Ghraib interrogation chief faces court-martial
18 Aug 2007 21:30:08 GMT
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/...k/
N18234720.htm
You know, Friedman is a poster child for the baby boomer hippy culture that somehow seemed to really lose their moral compass sometime during the 1980s. Not everyone's like that, but there sure are a lot of these morons who are stone-dead stupid but think they're smarter than everyone.
I do believe that killing a bunch of people just to prove you can as a political/foreign policy act is pretty much the definition of terrorism.
friedman is just a part of what duncan refers to as the floating class...
without the class.
knowing they are being painted into the corner of the dustbin of history, they are going to become increasing shill and irrational as they defend their past ludicrous positions on the iraqi invasion.
good times.
baby boomer hippy culture that somehow seemed to really lose their moral compass
am i supposed to apologise to you for caring about ordinary people who get screwed by forces in society?
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You know, Friedman is a poster child for the baby boomer hippy culture that somehow seemed to really lose their moral compass sometime during the 1980s. Not everyone's like that, but there sure are a lot of these morons who are stone-dead stupid but think they're smarter than everyone.
puppethead
Huh?
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drifty's take scroll down.
Bill Moyers on WETA discussing how the press enabled Bush and the war. Friedman is included in the long list of enablers and liars.
baby boomer hippy culture that somehow seemed to really lose their moral compass
yet another sign of the conservative movement falling off the edge of its flat earth
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Cameron Diaz was pictured in US Weekly carrying his book, The World is Flat. I think that solidifies it: he's the idiot's intellectual.
Cameron Diaz!
Sept. 11 happened because America had lost its deterrent capability. We lost it because for 20 years we never retaliated against, or brought to justice, those who murdered Americans.
Inside the Oval Office
President Bush gives journalists a "heads up" about the mid-term elections, among other things.
by Fred Barnes
09/13/2006 1:54:00 PM
WE NOW KNOW WHY the Bush administration hasn't made the capture of Osama bin Laden a paramount goal of the war on terror. Emphasis on bin Laden doesn't fit with the administration's strategy for combating terrorism. Here's how President Bush explained this Tuesday: "This thing about . . . let's put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Co...12/
696wnfcp.asp
Huh?
A big part of Friedman's appeal is his very serious nature, and the seeming "I care for everyone" aura he projects. He's not a heartless capitalist, but his ideas are just as toxic. It's just that his perceived persona makes him more acceptable and important than he should be. He's kind of like the McCain of punditry, pulling off a big con job.
Well Ann Coulter has more teevee appearances and poorly citationed books than Duncan Black..of cousre she is a public intellectual.
Mudge
Ann Coulter - what happens when a drag queen isn't pretty enough to play night clubs in Reno.
sheets.
Sept. 11 happened because America had lost its deterrent capability. We lost it because for 20 years we never retaliated against, or brought to justice, those who murdered Americans.
As pointed out above, this is a lie: since Clinton did capture and bring to justice the WTC1 bombers. It is also insane: since it is based on the assumption that suicide bombers will be dissuaded by possibility of retaliation! And finally, it is part of the big lie effort to hide President "you covered your ass" Bush's culpability in the biggest intelligence failure in US history.
Whatever worth your views may or may not have on other topics, puppethead, you know jackshit about boomers. First, it's a span that covers twenty fucking years, which makes for a big difference in experience from beginning to end.
Moreover, not everyone was a "hippy," though most of us held at least some of those values. Some of us were working people who grew up less than privileged in one of those (non)economy-size families.
Yet the upcoming generation we raised is overall liberal, with less race and gender hangups than we battled. I'd say we must have done something right.
I think we have lost both our cats.
Zoe has been gone for days and I spent some time last nite out calling her. She usually comes, but no Zoe.
Julie was out with me and the dogs and we all came in. I left the door open for Zoe, so maybe Julie went back out.
She's a big cat now, so maybe she'll be OK, and come home.
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baby boomer hippy culture that somehow seemed to really lose their moral compass
I knew people like that who seemed to take advantage of the peace movement of the 60's and 70's--music, costume, etc., but really never had any moral compass. On close examination I found they came from families who had always been conservative and they took great pride in screwing the poor and voting for the crooks--very strange conflicted people!
you know jackshit about boomers
Touchy, touchy. This is a big problem, you know, being unwilling to acknowledge the problems from that generation. There are two types of boomers running things these years who are badly fucking things up: the 1950s-as-utopia conservative types and the good-intentions-but-lost-the-way liberals. Friedman is an example of the latter.
sister of ye
Well said
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I knew people like that who seemed to take advantage of the peace movement of the 60's and 70's--music, costume, etc., but really never had any moral compass. On close examination I found they came from families who had always been conservative and they took great pride in screwing the poor and voting for the crooks--very strange conflicted people!
Cass
WTF?
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WTF?
Something you can't understand or express?
You don't expect your readers to watch Friedman, do you Atrios? Friedman is too serious. Yup, he is a wanker.
"being a billionaire chickenhawk and advocating free trade policies that will make factory workers homeless makes you qualified for an hour interview"-Charlie Rose
That was a tough hour to watch.
Friedman's someone who advocated killing large numbers of Arabs to prove we could.
Fixed your typo.
I watched about 3 minutes. That man has more shit than a xmas turkey.
"I knew people like that who seemed to take advantage of the peace movement of the 60's and 70's--music, costume, etc., but really never had any moral compass."
Yeah, and I knew people who sometimes wore blue but never had any moral compass.
Tom Friedman and Joe Liberman are the two Jews I like.
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Tom Friedman and Joe Liberman are the two Jews I like.
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Ahmad Chalabi
You can have both of them.
Friedman's a 'useful idiot', an amoral bloodthirsty jerkoff who helped pave the way for the biggest disgrace in American history.
He's abrogated his duties as an 'intellectual' and as a journalist and shouldn't be allowed near a computer or a microphone for the rest of his days.
It's as simple as that.
I watched as much as I could stand. The word that kept coming to mind was ....how "pathetic" is this interview. It was awful to watch. Freidman took whining to a whole new level.
advocated killing random innocent people
yes - this could be considered a crime...if one is not a 'public intellectual'.
You know we're living in a totalitarian state when the voices of Friedman and Coulter are never balances with the likes of Chompsky and Zinn.
Friedman will never admit he was wrong.
He will blame the failure of Iraq on all of us who tried to stop the invasion in the first place.
The book should be "The World is Full of Liars Like Me!". Protect the Kurds because there are a model of good things happening? Rather he means, protect the oil.
Yes, the Body and Soul Blog clock Friedman saying so really ugly stuff.
Something along the lines that Iraqis only understood Saddam's ugly behavior. Than advocate doing the same to them.
I don't know why NYT keeps him on, he's lost it worse than Don Imus lost it, and I'm pretty sure that the Pulitzer prize judges would NEVER have given Friedman anything if only they knew how ugly Thomas would get – in defense of his own ego.
"John has a long moustache
daver9 "
That was a message to the French Underground during WWII meaning that the invasion was to occur the next day.
Charlie Rose is an idiot.
I tried to watch but was unable to continue. Perhaps I am not yet schizophrenic enough to consider his flat world anything other than the reflection of his flat head which leaves little room for the brain.
Punch him with a pin and there is no one there.
Bombs That Made World Flat
Friedman Pulled Them From His Ass
Freed Men Of Their Lives
Friedman is an "intellectual" for people who don't like to actually, you know, think.
Thank you cal1942. One of my favorite funny scenes from "The Longest Day" movie, when the french wife tastes the soup.
If I had a television interview show, I'd smear The Moustache with tar and set fire to him.
And *not* just during Sweeps Week.
A most loathsome little man.
I thought the Charlie Rose interview was pretty good.
You guys like to just bag on Friedman but you never actually engage his arguments. "A most loathsome little man." "Friedman is an "intellectual" for people who don't like to actually, you know, think." Nice.
Yes he's a liberal interventionist who mistakenly thought all we needed to do was get rid of Saddam and Iraq would establish a democracy. In that interview you all so deride he admitted he might have been wrong, in hindsight. He also called for setting a date-certain for withdrawal of all U.S. troops and expressed his feeling that the various factions in Iraq have shown no inclination to move towards accomodation, and that U.S. troops shouldn't be standing in the middle of all that. He also said he didn't apologize for wanting to give the Iraqis a chance at freedom, which I can understand while disagreeing with it (in that it's not our role to go around "granting freedom" to all the oppressed people of Earth). He has the right vision of the global future, he has some good insights on the modern world's interconnectedness, he's articulate and entertaining to listen to; you can at least grant him all that while disagreeing on how we get to that global future. He's not an idiot, no matter how fun it is to call him one. He's not loathsome, any more than your average man-on-the-street is loathsome (EVERYONE except a very few pacifists wanted to "kick some arab ass" after 9/11).
BEDEVILMENT
I heard it first on Charlie Rose,
Then afterward on Terri Gross,
And then it seemed on every show
Esteemed the author made a go.
It always is to sell a book,
And talk supports that thesis,
But after you have had a look
Bedevilment increases.
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