Hilariously and in just about the most tonedeaf writing exercise of all time, Thomas Friedman quotes at length from that mother of all clichés, the “you can’t take the truth” soliloquy by Jack Nicholson. Doesn’t the New York Times have editors? My editors would beat me to death with a rock if I wrote anything that hackneyed. http://nyti.ms/1amKN1Y
Thomas Friedman out-Friedmans himself
Ted Rall
http://rall.comTed Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Uncle Tom is a known commodity. Far from being a problem, the NY Times COUNTS on him doing this.
PF-F-F-FT!
TF: There is a Jewish state today because of hard men, like Ariel Sharon, who were ready to play by the local rules
CH: … and because his best buddy was the biggest bully on the planet who saw no reason to play by any rules.
TF: [Sharon] always had contempt for those in Israel or abroad who he believed did not understand the kill-or-be-killed nature of their neighborhood.
CH: Israel was the primary cause of that kill-or-be-killed nature. Sure, the Arabs were fighting amongst themselves at the time of Israel’s founding. So were the Europeans, Americans & Asians. At the end of WWII we all sat down together and decided we no longer wanted to live under “Might makes right.” Then we created Israel by stealing the Palestinians’ ‘traditional homeland’ and made it right with the threat of overwhelming might.
TF: Sharon remained skeptical that the Palestinians would ever make a true peace with Israel
CH: Imagine that. You throw people out of their own homes, kill their children, deny them humanitarian aid and the right to self-determination. Then those ungrateful bastards don’t even want to make peace. Israel’s flag should bear the motto, “We’ll stop killing you just as soon as you stop killing us back”
You want peace in the Middle East? Simple – let Iran have the bomb, and the ever loving peace of MAD will will rule the day.
Wow, how…accurate of you.
I’d like to save you the trouble of ever having to read him again:
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With that little gadget, we could also save the NYT the trouble of paying his salary….
Friedman correctly reasons that movie quotes are the best way to reach Americans.
I forgot to add that I did not realize that Nicholson was playing the good guy. I got the impression that he was the arrested criminal son of a bitch.
Friedman writes what most New York Times readers want to read. Accuracy is not a a spice they want sprinkled on their ‘news’. And his employer rewards him well for a job well done.