Monday, April 21, 2008
Rose - Friedman - Incredible!
Watch this clip from The Charlie Rose Show with his guest Tom Friedman, from May 30, 2003, three months after we invaded Iraq.
Charlie Rose: "Now that the war is over, and there's some difficulty with the peace, was it worth doing?"
Friedman says yes it was. We could have invaded Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, or just pick a country, any country in the Middle East to invade, but we had to prick that bubble and show our muscle and show we meant business.
They said the war was over five years ago. Well, our president, dressed up in his sexy flight suit, had told us all that the mission was accomplished on May 1, 2003, so can you blame them?
Do they ever replay the shows that display them uttering such blithering idiocies?
Tom Friedman still writes for the New York Times, and Charlie Rose still has a show on PBS.
And Bush is still president for 273 more days.
Video clip from Atrios at Eschaton.
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What an intersting chap.
ReplyDeleteTheMe, which chap?
ReplyDeleteAtrios has been persistent in pointing out that people who spout utter nonsense and are consistently wrong about everything are still courted, consulted, and quoted. They are given forums for their nonsense. And those who were right all along are still considered a bunch of DFH who haven't a clue about anything that matters. Thanks for highlighting this problem here.
ReplyDeletePS: Do you think MP can handle the fact that we got along without him for several days? [grin]
I hope you can relax a bit now.
Paul, thanks. That the blatherings of the folks who have been so consistently wrong still fill the airways and the newspapers is a major part of what is so very wrong with the media. That and the inordinate focus on the bottom line. Where is the accountability?
ReplyDeletePS: Do you think MP can handle the fact that we got along without him for several days?
Moreover, not a word of thanks for Eileen and Saintly Ramblings and me for our efforts, except the snarky comment about Tupperware parties.
Yes, somehow, it is more relaxing to have him around. As it says on his sidebar, "notorious, inflamatory, outspoken activists such as ...Madpriest [are] evil necessities."
I didn't say that. I'm just quoting what's there on his own blog.
I can't bear to watch this. I stopped watching that supercilious (did I spell that right?) Charlie Rose years ago, he irritated me so much, and I am not sure I can stomach him AND Thomas Friedman together. But I get the drift from your post. We really have hit 1984-land.
ReplyDeleteMr. Friedman.
ReplyDeleteJane, it's quite short. It's worth watching to see a man make a total ass of himself.
ReplyDeleteTheMe, Rose, too. They're something worse than chaps.
he's from my home town. (Mr. Friedman, that is.)
ReplyDeleteDiane, I see that you've taken a different path. Good for you.
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