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scottxyz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:21 PM
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Thom Friedman has been outsourced! (Warning - Parody)
Tom Friedman, well meaning NYT columnnist lunkhead, gets job outsourced In a stunning development, Tom Friedman - until recently the famous NYT op-ed columnist who has downplayed the outsourcing of American jobs, finds his job has been outsourced due to an egregious factual error concerning T-shirts.

"{BANGALORE, India} I am delighted to write to you today as the new foreign-affairs columnist for the New York Times . My name is Tam Veeraraghavan. Ah, you say, you've never heard of Tam Veeraraghavan, but the name sounds vaguely Indian. Well, I am an Indian. I live in Bangalore. And I'm now the pundit you read in this newspaper. Now some of you might think that I'm an example of how outsourcing is hurting American workers. Well let me introduce you to Yamini Narayanan, an Indian-born 35-year-old with a Ph.D. in economics....."

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/31719

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/opinion/07FRIE.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fThomas%20L%20Friedman
http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_03_07.html#001384
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_03_07_atrios_archive.html#107888342743334610


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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-13-04 10:39 PM
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1. Oh yeah, baby!!
DoublePlus Funny!!
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