Letters to the Editor
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RMP
Did you see the clip of the May 2003 Friedman interview just now? I linked to it. The whole hour-long interview can also be found on YouTube if you Google thomas friedman charlie rose. Yes, an entire hour with the Moustache. The whole thing is icky as hell, with Friedman hopping around with his ridiculous hand gestures and dramatic pauses, talking about everything like it all fits so perfectly into his armchair micro-theories. He's like a male Peggy Noonan, who I find equally cloying in her grandiloquence.
The "suck on this" part is truly priceless though. That Friedman can actually use those three words in that manner to describe an invasion of a sovereign nation that posed absolutely no threat to the U.S., and still be glad-handled by academia and the media as such an intellectual, is truly a sad commentary on the state of things.
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RMP & DCLaw
@ DCLaw1
I didn’t see the Friedman interview. Your description...
-- Retired Military Patriot
DCLaw's description of Friedman in that interview, and of the effect the interview was intended to have on Rose and other unbearably shallow rubes, was exactly perfect in my view. He described the picture, as I saw it, and the reactions and anguished emotions that I felt while viewing it exactly.
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@ jackie -- Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, eh?
just checking in to shut down la machine ... best belly laugh all week ...
I think "we" have no - zero - nada - nyet idea of what "true grit" really looks like ... I think it looks like every Iraqi.
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RMP, it's probably just a coincidence
but I did email the NewsHour, asking them to consider using some of the sources that Glenn cited earlier on who were right during the runup to the war.
And, even though they aren't the lesser known experts, they did have both Juan Cole and Trudy Rubin on tonight asking their thoughts on what is in store, especially given al Sadr's likely withdrawing the ceasefire.
Their prognosis was fairly grim overall. No happy talk.
They have had a few diverse groups of voters on panels during the earlier part of the primary season. Real folks.
With your credentials, perhaps you could make a case with them for such an interview.
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On second thought LWM don't.
Don't send them to riverbendblog. Any winger that sees that blog is likely to think the poor woman works for Jeremiah Wright. After all, she ain't exactly saying, "God Bless America" is she? And all those Iraqis going, "Who the hell's Zarqawi?" Don't they read the Weekly Standard over there? That woman got raped. She's a terrorist. We know that because she was on Al Jazeera. It's run by al Qaeda from Iran.
Amazing that they fled to that ruthless dictatorship in Syria that we haven't gotten to yet. And just so they could walk down the street standing straight up and not look behind and not say prayers in traffic jams! Haven't they heard of Benjamin Franklin? Serves 'em right, reading communist literature like Emily Dickinson.
The whole damn blog is one of Rumsfeld's unknown unknowns. Don't send the wingers there, their heads will explode. Their lapel pins will burn through to the holes where their hearts are supposed to be.
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ondelette's right...
Riverbend's exquisite prose could easily make some people's minds spontaneously combust.
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Kitt
Isn't the Friedman/Rose clip just the grossest interview you've ever seen? The whole interview is like that. It's a sick, sick glimpse into the swaggering, oblivious hyper-nationalism of 2002 and 2003. That particular manifestation of the hyper-nationalist fervor wore a blazer and spoke to us like college freshmen. Gag.
Now we're just nationalist, rather than hyper-nationalist. Which I suppose is a marginal improvement.
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Shooter Scores!
Did I miss the post where you answered my question regarding your final farewell?
You must have. At the time my condition precluded further posting. However, I made a not-completely-unexpected miraculous recovery, and my medical team were persuaded that a little light posting would not be dangerous, in fact might be ameliorative, palliative, or just downright therapeutic.
Your concern is touching, while I'm sure it in no way measures up to your concern for the freedom, liberty and well-being of the Iraqis.
Thanks for asking.
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Good for you Anonymust
I did watch NewsHour. Cole seemed kind of subdued. He's very knowledgeable, but he is not very dynamic on TV. Some degree of passion would help him sell his messages. We need some emotional messengers like Chuck Hagel showed when he had taken enough BS from his Repug colleagues. You can't sell the horrors of war intellectually. Fadhil and Antoon were full of emotion and you could see it in all parts of their bodies and hear it in their voices even though it was subdued because their feelings were genuine. Viewers see so much showmanship versus emotions, that it is shocking to see the real thing.
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@ DCLaw1
You can learn a lot about people when their gladness comes to pass. What I learned about Friedman today, although not out of character with what I already knew, really disgusted me. I had one of those Old Testament feelings, the kind that makes you wish Friedman an intimate encounter with that angry old man who leveled Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Ouch!
Thank you for reminding us all of the most important issue facing America: your ego and petty rivalry with other liberal bloggers.
-- DCLaw1
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A Simple, if Naive Question
Who is controlling the "range of opinion regarding Iraq and the US occupation," that Americans are exposed to?
I agree that, with the signal exception of Chris Mathews, serious questionings of the Iraq fiasco have been few and far between in the broadcast MSM. But why?
I know the following assertion will provoke a firestorm, but:
Is it possible that the people in the broadcast media business are simply not that bright, rather than controlled? Incapable of serious analytical thinking? Pretty and/or handsome faces, nothing more?
If not, again I ask, Who controls them?
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Did you see the clip of the May 2003 Friedman interview just now?
Friedman's just another word for nothing left to lose.
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FredrickBernanke
If not, again I ask, Who controls them?
Who controls what you do at work?
Almost all of these people are employees of one sort or another.. Very well paid employees indeed, but still employees.
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I' m just gettin' home and ready to conk dead fer da' day...
The 1st page Amerigo says it will be okay if we all just "come to Jesus".... No worry.
We can't grow a contemptuous moustache with food particles or ya's get a drubbing.
Anonymust @ 8:22 hints about a 'spontaneous burp' .... er, that's in preparation to read?
okay. hiccup. ah,
o, grandiloquence.
heh.