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Old Jan 13th, 2007, 09:41 AM        Re: Sorry, I had to share this
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You get a whole nation full of people who spend 99% of their free time worrying about their lawns or their short iron game, you convince them that they know something about something they actually know nothing about, and next thing you know, they're blundering into a 1000-year blood feud between rival Islamic groups, shooting things left and right in a panic, and thinking that they get make it all right and correct each successive fuckup by "keeping our noses to the grindstone" and "making lemons out of lemonade."
Man, if only we couldget Matt Taibbi--shitty political writer who writes for Rolling Stone and other second tier publications--to educate these people in the place of Thomas Friedman.

Friedman is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist who spent years covering war, poverty and politics in the Middle East. i don't care if people don't like his ideas, and yes, he has flip flopped on the war (he certainly isn't alone in that boat). But I find it hysterical that a hack like Taibbi somehow feels he is in any position to not only judge the credentials of Friedman, but the political wisdom and understanding of the "whole nation." What trash.
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