Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman: no evidence of Trump/Russia collusion, ‘which is why we need a special prosecutor’

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on March 05, 2017 1 Comment

Friedman illustrates Rush's rule: for liberals, it's not the evidence that matters; it's the seriousness of the charge...

Media Hysteria: Tom Friedman Invokes 9/11, Pearl Harbor over Sessions/Russia

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on March 02, 2017 92 Comments

Overnight a mass media hysteria developed over Jeff Session's answer to questions regarding contacts with Russians. As detailed in this NBC News report and elsewhere, Sessions was responding to questions regarding contacts in his role as a Trump surrogate:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions denied meeting with Russian officials during the course of the presidential election to discuss the Trump campaign, he told NBC News in exclusive remarks early Thursday. "I have not met with any Russians at any time to discuss any political campaign," he said, "and those remarks are unbelievable to me and are false. And I don't have anything else to say about that." ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7cnehkQpdY

Thomas Friedman’s Unhinged Attack on Trump and Netanyahu

Posted by David Gerstman on January 01, 2017 21 Comments

Probably the one columnist I have critiqued more than any other in my blogging career is Thomas Friedman of The New York Times. Friedman, one-time NY Times Jerusalem bureau chief, is considered The Times' go-to expert on the Middle East, globalization and environmental issues. However, when reading Friedman's columns, it's easy to see that rather than being an expert on any of these topics, he holds certain beliefs and uses all of his observations to support his deeply held beliefs. He often conveys his convictions using superficial metaphors that sound clever, but are meaningless or misleading.

Giving Iran’s Rouhani the benefit of the doubts never given Netanyahu

Posted by David Gerstman on October 07, 2013 9 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 10/07/2013 - The Columnists who Cried "Sheep"...

John Kerry’s most worrisome testimony: Thomas Friedman “most often correct”

Posted by David Gerstman on September 09, 2013 16 Comments

Mideast Media Sampler 09/09/2013 - Friedman has made a career of being wrong. ...

Obamacare innovation: who does it benefit?

Posted by David Gerstman on May 30, 2013 11 Comments

The other day, when I was researching my post about Thomas Friedman and Obamacare, I contacted an old blogging buddy of mine - I was on the Watcher's Council with him a few years ago - Scott Kirwin (aka The Razor). Scott views Obamacare through the...

Electric car company “A Better Place” has gone to a better place

Posted by David Gerstman on May 28, 2013 16 Comments

A Better Place, the Israeli electric car company, filed for bankruptcy after burning through over $800 million. https://twitter.com/PrivCo/status/338912756872916992 Unlike other electrical vehicle makers, A Better Place was based on a concept of battery swapping instead of charging stations. The first obvious sign of trouble was when CEO Shai...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/24/2013 – Friedman, Fayyadism, Failure

Posted by David Gerstman on April 24, 2013 2 Comments

1) Friedman resurrects "Fayyadism" Some time ago, Thomas Friedman coined the term "Fayyadism," a concept that, according to Nathan Brown, never had a chance. https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/324912965759401984 (No I don't agree with everything Brown argues, but the fourth and fifth paragraphs are good observations.) In his most recent column, Goodbye to...

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