Robert Parry: The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman

[marmar]

from Consortium News:


The Madness of NYT’s Tom Friedman
April 10, 2013

Exclusive: Looking back at the Iraq War and other disastrous U.S. foreign policy choices, you might wonder about the sanity of American leadership. But if you read star columnist Thomas L. Friedman, you’ll learn that it’s the rest of the world that’s crazy, as Robert Parry explains.

By Robert Parry


When ranking which multi-millionaire American pundit is the most overrated, there are, without doubt, many worthy contenders, but one near the top of any list must be the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman – with his long record of disastrous policy pronouncements including his enthusiasm for George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.

Friedman, of course, has paid no career price for his misguided judgments and simplistic nostrums. Like many other star pundits who inhabit the Op-Ed pages of the Times and the Washington Post, Friedman has ascended to a place where the normal powers of gravity don’t apply, where the cumulative weight of his errors only lifts him up.

Indeed, there is something profoundly nonsensical about Friedman’s Olympian standing, inhabiting a plane of existence governed by the crazy rules of Washington’s conventional wisdom, where – when looking down on the rest of us – Friedman feels free to cast aspersions on other people’s sanity, like the Mad Hatter calling the Church Mouse nuts.

Friedman describes every foreign adversary who reacts against U.S. dictates as suffering from various stages of insanity. He accepts no possibility that these “designated enemies” are acting out of their own sense of self-interest and even fear of what the United States might be designing. ......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/10/the-madness-of-nyts-tom-friedman/

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Friedman is a clown!

It is truly amazing how so many stars of our modern media paid no price for their cheering on these wars.

Proud to K & R this post!

Cheers!

[PETRUS]

3. Yup, an insufferable hack.. And he's hardly the only one with a big megaphone.

[truebluegreen]

2. +1000 n/t

[bemildred]

4. I have noticed his illiterate and adolescent screeds in the media again of late.

These well-off plutocrats think we will forget what they said before, because even they know they are spewing empty bullshit.

[blm]

5. Parry has more integrity in his little finger than the entire WH press corps can muster up

between them.

[Doctor_J]

7. The entire cheering section of OIF has made a comeback

Never mind they helped us geti into the worst foreign debacle in our history. Here they are a decade later spoting their "wisdom" again.

The US is well and truly broken

[Indepatriot]

6. I Spoke to Mr. Friedman once.....

Outside a matinee showing of SICKO (I kid u not) in Pasadena. I walked up to him in the lobby and said.."Pardon me, Mr. Friedman, I've been reading your stuff for years, and I'd like to ask you a question." He: "Sure, what would you like to know" Me: " How have you managed to be so completely wrong about absolutely everything and yet still get paid?" He frowned and walked quickly away....

[navarth]

8. support consortium news whenever you can

just like DU, that site is deserving of support.