Thomas Friedman hate thread, let’s fucking go.
When I was in Cairo during the Egyptian uprising, I wanted to change hotels one day to be closer to the action and called the Marriott to see if it had any openings. The young-sounding Egyptian woman who spoke with me from the reservations department offered me a room and then asked: “Do you have a corporate rate?” I said, “I don’t know. I work for The New York Times.” There was a silence on the phone for a few moments, and then she said: “Can I ask you something?” Sure. “Are we going to be O.K.? I’m worried.”
Also, let’s not forget NoHo Hank schooling Thomas Friedman about the rise of Asia. (Prompted, you may recall, by Hank’s conflict with a Burmese crime organization.)
Ooh, more:
A young Saudi woman wrote an email to Friedman in 2002, not a question but a statement of profound truth. It’s excerpted in Longitudes and Attitudes: “I dream of the day when I become independent and have my own car. I dream of having all my rights as a human being. Saudi women need your pen, Mr. Friedman.” https://friedmanforher.tumblr.com/FAQ
It has been the best performance of alliance management and consolidation since another president whom I covered and admired — who also was said to be incapable of putting two sentences together: George H.W. Bush.
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Thomas Friedman is a classic journalist in the sense that he is willing to undermine the professed “morals” of his profession in order to cozy up to power and then he uses that position to broadcast that closeness through anodyne anecdotes.
It’s all a big game of pretend to these people. You can’t be close to power and be anodyne. You are riding the crest of the wave while pretending otherwise so your drivel has mass appeal. My contempt for him and his ilk goes beyond human words and human numbers. I need that fucking bit about ten million circuits and miles of hate.
This extremely based, actually.
I mean, it’s terrible because Biden sucks and this journalist probably too, but i would love to have lunch with Xi and then get paid because i talked about the menu.
If I went to a white house lunch and they served me a tuna salad sandwich and a choccy frosty I would immediately become a 3rd world Maoist
When Trump was president he had a button on his desk to summon an attendant with diet coke on a silver tray. Also remember freedom fries? The white house had never been the height of culinary excellence
Nothing beats when he served cold ass McDonald’s to Clemson when they won the championship.
oh to be a fly on that wall
‘look jack i wanna see you guzzle that milkshake like a dog-faced-pony-soldier in heat. go!’
