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This is terrific. Especially if you share Matt Taibbi's opinion that Friedman's writing is a bloviated mess of half-baked ideas and nonsensical metaphors. htt
by skannamalai 14y ago
This is terrific. Especially if you share Matt Taibbi's opinion that Friedman's writing is a bloviated mess of half-baked ideas and nonsensical metaphors.
http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/23/tom-friedman-strikes-again/ http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/04/23/tom-friedman-stri...
However, I am surprised by the several posters here who feel this is a great approximation and yet also that Friedman is a great author. I am curious how a predictably impenetrable and meandering style is worth reading.
- VolatileVoid 14y agoSure, except that Taibbi's writing is /also/ so predictable that he practically <expletive> <amusing metaphor> Goldman Sachs. See what I did there? :)
- skannamalai 14y agoI feel you, I don't love Taibbi at all, but at the same time, he's not on the NYT's most e-mailed articles list every week. You can escape Taibbi, whereas Friedman is like Sauron's eye, gazing into your soul no matter where you try and hide.
- scarmig 14y agoAnother Taibbi contra Friedman classic: http://rolocroz.com/junk/friedman.html http://rolocroz.com/junk/friedman.html Sure, it's catnip, but we all deserve catnip sometime. Living life without catnip is like a trout driving a car without a steering wheel, which leads you to a oval world pretty quickly.
- mitchi 14y agocontra or contre?
- scarmig 14y agoI believe contra is Latin, contre francais?
- skannamalai 14y agothank you, this is the one I vaguely recalled existed, vs the link the one I posted. I remember reading this with a sigh of relief with the reassurance that I wasn't, in fact, crazy.