That Used to be Us, by Thomas Friedman

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Tuesday September 04, 2012 · 8:27 AM PDT

2012/09/04 · 08:27

this is the only link i can find to Matt Taibbi's original takedown of Thomas Friedman:

http://delong.typepad.com/...

this Taibbi article helped me to realize that i was not, in fact, insane or addled. the Great Man Friedman really was an ass. Thankyou, Matt! i was not alone!

below the squiggle is my review of friedman's book. i wrote it and posted it on Amazon. it is not necessary to have bought the book from Amazon to review it on Amazon.

friedman makes me do a face-palm every time. he and david brooks represent, to me, most everything that is rotten, fraudulent and pseudo-intellectual in many political ideas and essays. they are foolish rich men purveying bad ideas because they form pretty metaphors and fill up some column inches. anecdotes and metaphors sell your rotten ideas to the unwary every time! Newt Gingrich is also a grand master of this form of shilling for the pseudo-idea.

i encourage you to write your own interviews on Amazon to fight the tide of conservative propaganda. as someone considers buying a book by say, Friedman or D'Souza, a scathing negative review by a liberal may be the only signal available to a potential reader that this book is BS and that there is another side to the story.

this diary may only be useful for the link to the Radio New Zealand interview of Friedman. enjoy it - it is delightful to hear, for once, the Great Man challenged! he is obviously accustomed to much more obsequious interviewers. i culled that link from Glenn Greenwald's Salon blog.

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Wednesday November 02, 2011 · 1:04 PM PDT

2011/11/02 · 13:04

need a new heart? new lungs? we nearly have the technology to grow you your own genetically identical body part in a petri dish. the .1% may already be growing their own cloned spare parts in china or india.

but you can’t do this with the brain. you can’t download the memory and software to that new grey hardware. and if you live long enough, alzheimers does come for everyone.

so in the future, we will have alot of physically healthy but very senile wealthy people living off the interest on their interest. driving their fucking bentley’s real slowly and erratically, blocking supermarket aisles in Boca Raton and Monaco, and asking the same fucking questions over and over and over again. these senile pests will be here on earth running the world when our children are born, and they will be here when our children’s children are dead, and it will be the same goddamned people. same names, generation after generation. these people will need a new name for their group’s identity. something like Vampires or Zombies. the Frankenwealthy.

but it is easy to rip off old senile people with roofing and driveway sealant scams, so we have that going for us.

the test

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 2:31 PM PDT

2009/03/24 · 14:31

i am not a conservative. i am a liberal. but i am not a good liberal. i am a bad liberal. a very bad liberal.

maskling11

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Saturday July 09, 2005 · 9:32 PM PDT

2005/07/09 · 21:32

When I want to find out what the republicans are thinking, I don't have to go to LGF or Instapundit, I just go to my blue collar, red-state job. My mates are stoked with Fox news talking points, and they are happy to share. We have a lot of time on our hands for discussion, and I stick up for our side regularly. I am a 45 year old lifelong democrat. I like my workmates. In spite of their red ignorance, they are good people. And they respect me because I spent time in Iraq as an electrician in support of our troops. My rethug buddies don't quite know what to make of a "liberal" like myself - and neither do some kossacks.
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i can't. i won't. would you?

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Monday March 07, 2005 · 8:18 PM PST

2005/03/07 · 20:18

so i met this woman on the internet, and we go out, and we go back to my place, and we get intimate, and i was on the computer a little later looking at The Onion, a very funny article about GWB's new "prayer guided missile", and she sees the pic of bush and says "god, i love that man!"

my goddamned blood freezes. Read More

Cain and Abel sharpen their knives.

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Sunday November 07, 2004 · 1:56 PM PST

2004/11/07 · 13:56

I'm a union member, IBEW in Oklahoma. And once again, my "brothers" betray my interests.
Look at the statistics. Blue state vs. Red state union membership is 2:1. Union voters for Bush vs. Union voters for Kerry is 2:1 in Ohio and everywhere else. It's as if all red state union members voted Bush, and all blue state members voted Kerry. Of course I know it's not that clear cut. But its close to that. Read More

Poop Valhalla!

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Saturday October 23, 2004 · 10:31 AM PDT

2004/10/23 · 10:31

If you missed Triumph the insult comic dog working spin alley, you can look at it here:

viral video

Begala, Lockhart, Mehlman, Rove, Eskew and otheres unknown to me all get hit. It's hilarious. I must say, the dems come through this trial by poop much better than the thugs.

Unrelated: Somehow I got on a wing nut email list and recently received this piece of propaganda:
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my iraq diary

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Thursday October 14, 2004 · 11:12 AM PDT

2004/10/14 · 11:12

A couple of people have wanted to know more about Iraq and my experience there. Everyone is curious about war, particularly men. I think every man wonders how he would react in combat. It's a manhood thing. I was curious myself. Since I worked for Halliburton, though, I was an unarmed non-combatant, so my experiences cannot be compared to what our soldiers do over there. I did not have to go out on missions, I did not have to kill anyone, and I could have left anytime I wanted to.
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"miserable failure" video

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Tuesday October 12, 2004 · 6:42 PM PDT

2004/10/12 · 18:42

tell me if this has been previously posted and i'll remove. this is a terrific windows media player format video spliced together from the first debate. nice soundtrack.

kirghizlight.blogspot.com

a political primer

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Tuesday September 21, 2004 · 7:54 PM PDT

2004/09/21 · 19:54

"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
English author & Anglican prelate

"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
Bertrand Russell
English author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) Read More

this is disturbing-please take a look

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Saturday September 18, 2004 · 10:06 AM PDT

2004/09/18 · 10:06

6 senators, including Zell Miller, Brownback, and Inhofe introduced a bill called "the constitutional restoration act of 2004" in Feb of 2004. It has picked up 34 cosponsors. It has received very little press attention. It is truly radical-possibly the start of a fascist theocracy.
The bill would allow government officials to cite god as the source of their authority. Decisions they make under the cover of this citation would be exempt from review by the courts. The wing nuts are selling this bill as something that would allow the display of nativity scenes and the ten commandments and so forth, but that is a Trojan horse. The wording of the act cuts broader than that.
Check out Yurica Report.
Also check out Peroutka2004 for the wing nutter view.
Hope I embedded those links correctly. Google around. Tell me what you think. Liberal paranoia or WTF?

I'm not a tinfoil hat guy, really. I believe that one man, Oswald , killed Kennedy. But this smells pretty bad.

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