Ok, I confess. When I need to crank out a quick column, I find somebody who writes something idiotic, and I give them their deserved dressing down. When my list of idiots gets too big, I just go with my favorite bastion of worthlessness, the Jayson Blair Times. I can’t help it. They simply do not know how to say anything positive, unbiased, reasonable, or accurate. Being liberal, shrill and wrong may offend some, but as a conservative columnist, I delight in their intellectual deficiencies. The Gray Lady is the main reason I support euthanasia. Somebody kill this old bag already.
The JBT’s columnist Thomas Friedman is your standard Jewish liberal, which means I often have to apologize for him to the normal Americans who lump me in with the 80% of Jews that need cranial-glutial extraction surgery. If I dealt with the JBT’s idiocy every day, I would have to ignore other topics. However, today being Monday, and the mercury on the JBT ridicule meter going sky high, they deserved a heaping of scorn.
The title of the newest debacle put to print is entitled, “9-11 is over.”
Oh really? I took a nap, perhaps I missed it. Did we win the War on Terror? Did all the terrorists surrender? Or did we all join hands and start a love train?
Mr. Friedman takes umbrage at the fact that Rudy Giuliani is running partially on his leadership on 9/11. First of all, he is also running on his spectacular record of turning around New York City. What the heck is he supposed to run on? An imaginary record with empty promises for the future with nothing in the past to provide a credible track record? Well if you’re a democrat, sure, but thankfully the JBT doesn’t get to bully republicans and decide their platforms for them.
Friedman laments that, “how much, since 9/11, we’ve become ‘The United States of Fighting Terrorism.’” Yes! We have become that! What the heck else should we become? Oh I know…we could just politely ask the terrorists to stop it and play nice!
Mr. Friedman “does not know whether to laugh or cry” at what is happening to America. That is how I feel about the JBT.
Like the cancer of liberalism itself, this JBT article spread stupidity and insincerity with each passing sentence. Friedman wrote, “Times columnists are not allowed to endorse candidates, but there’s no rule against saying who will not get my vote:”
The JBT has its head so far up the democratic party’s hide that to say that the lack of an official endorsement means it is openminded and unbiased is insane. In the cases of Mondale, Dukakis and McGovern, the JBT was the only entity supporting these people outside of their own families.
Now who is not getting Mr. Friedman’s vote? Let’s find out. “I will not vote for any candidate running on 9/11. We don’t need another president of 9/11. We need a president for 9/12. I will only vote for the 9/12 candidate.”
Now in the real world, a 9/12 candidate is a person who witnessed 9/11, shook their fists in a state of rage, and wanted justice. This was not bloodlust. It was human decency demanding that our leaders honor our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
In the JBT-Friedman bubble, 9/12 is a post modern world where intellectuals sit down and rationally deal with all that ails us. We dialogue with people, because if we could all just learn, love and understand each other, we could communicate better.
I want to make it clear that I am not in any way, shape or form advocating violence against Mr. Friedman. Yet liberals truly are conservatives waiting to be mugged. Does somebody have to break into Mr. Friedman’s multi-million dollar mansion, take a crow bar to his winery, and smash an expensive bottle of Chablis over his family’s skulls before he realizes that some people are just bad? What is he going to do, defend himself with the gun that he doesn’t own because only criminals should have them?
Yes, I am stereotyping and trivializing this guy (with help from him), but the issue itself is far from trivial. To turn a phrase on a famous left wing hate group, no we cannot just “Move on” to a 9/12 world without 9/11. Saying it does not make it so.
“9/11 has made us stupid.” Speak for yourself and the dozen people who read your paper. I have an advanced degree, I disagree with you, and my brain actually works.
“You may think Guantánamo Bay is a prison camp in Cuba for Al Qaeda terrorists.”
Yes, because it is.
“A lot of the world thinks it’s a place we send visitors who don’t give the right answers at immigration.”
Are there 12 million people at Gitmo? I thought it was closer to 300.
“I will not vote for any candidate who is not committed to dismantling Guantánamo Bay and replacing it with a free field hospital for poor Cubans. Guantánamo Bay is the anti-Statue of Liberty.”
A free what?????? Can we please send the Gitmo detainees to this man’s home? If some wealthy republicans are willing to build a sanctuary for Gitmo and homeless people right across the street from this fellow, I would support it. Also, since there will be strict gun control laws, he will be safe because these terrorists would never break the law. Firearms are against the rules, especially if they want parole.
“I’d love to see us salvage something decent in Iraq that might help tilt the Middle East onto a more progressive pathway. That was and is necessary to improve our security.”
It’s called the surge, you left wing horse’s hide. It’s working.
“I still can’t get uninterrupted cellphone service between my home in Bethesda and my office in D.C. But I recently bought a pocket cellphone at the Beijing airport and immediately called my wife in Bethesda — crystal clear.”
Yet this fellow lives in the USA. “Love it or leave it” is not perfect, but “change it or lose it” mistakenly believes that all change is good. America must do a lot right, because billions of people, including many from China, want to come to America, inferioir cell phone service be d@mned.
“We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy. Al Qaeda is about 9/11. We are about 9/12, we are about the Fourth of July — which is why I hope that anyone who runs on the 9/11 platform gets trounced.”
The only thing getting trounced is the JBT’s financial well being. What Al Queda contributed to infrastructure, the JBT contributed to quality writing.
I have a right to life and liberty, despite Friedman’s desire to live under a Caliphate. No, he never stated that he desired, this, but he does not have to state this. Anyone can say that fighting is wrong. Wanting peace is easy. The problem is not that peace is wrong, but that the way peaceniks try to achieve peace does not work, cannot work, will not work, and has never worked ever ever ever ever ever!
Winning the War on Terror is more important than every other political issue combined. Maybe if we spent more on health care and prescription drugs we could get Friedman and his ill ilk the care they need. Yet if America is blown to kingdom come, there will be nobody alive to administer anything to anybody anywhere.
To every normal civilized foreigner, I want to say that I am a normal New Yorker. I am a mainstream Jew. I am an intelligent American. The people at the JBT may have certain traits in common with me, and I will repeatedly apologize for all of them if need be. However, these post modern 9/12 imbeciles do not speak for me.
I want to live. I support people that want me to live. I will only vote for a candidate who will repeatedly remind voters why 9/11 matters.
Yes, I am willing to support killing terrorists, even if it means keeping the JBT headquarters and all its worthless inhabitants on this planet where they will continue to detract from what is right in this world.
Maybe I should try to just understand the JBT and give their people a big hug. Or maybe, what they really need is a kick in the hide.
I am willing to put aside my own disgust with their stupidity to save their lives. If only they valued mine…and their own…the same.
eric
Eric,
Someone should tell Tom Friedman, this is the argument the President of Iran just made. Is Friedman taking his talking points, from the State Sponsor of Terrorism? Did he think no one would notice?
The Left is in big trouble and they know it, we took a hard shift to the Right after 9/11 which is more then understandable to anyone who witnessed the CARNAGE….remember the storys of the children on those planes? remember the horror storys of flight attendents and crews, getting their throat’s cut so they couldn’t moblize and fight back. remember the ones who did, and the passengers who fought back…remember the Pentagon smoldering on fire and smoking. remember all those cell phones calls from the towers, and the planes, telling their loved ones, they loved them and good bye… I guess Tom Friedman has one of those selective memories, lucky him. The rest of us have to live with the memories till the day we die.
Tom friedman is not all that liberal, but on this I completely and totaly agree with him. We have acted disgracefully since 9/11. All the international goodwill we garnered that day has been squandered. All the sense of of commonality has been twisted into a more divisive society than before 9/11. The conservatives who shouted the battlecrys are dropping like flies. It’s time to shake off the hangover we’re now feeling after that ridiculous 9/11 drunk. It’s time to see that bills piling up and start paying them. It’s time to either correct or end the blunders Iraq and Afghanistan.
The left is in big trouble? 2006 ring a bell? Read a poll lately – even a GOP poll? The only reason you might be able to hold onto the White House is because the Dems just might be naive enough to think that America would vote for a black man named Obama or a woman people believe is “shrill.” Americans aren’t very bright – just look at our infantile reactionism after 9/11. The cons have lost the Senate and the House and the governors and state legislators are following along. They are losing everywhere. It took them a record time to lose their power, because it was so blantantly and arrogantly misused that even the dumbest Americans can tell what a steaming pile of lying, poisonous, conflicted, rabble-rousing malfactors the GOP turned out to be.
Good night, 9/11. Welcome to today.
JMJ
From the waste of a good tree turned into a paint-catcher:
But, but, but I thought the Cuban health ‘care’ system was the envy of the world.
“…I thought the Cuban health ‘care’ system was the envy of the world.”
Envy of the world? Not quite. Better than nothing, I suppose. And their doctors are great. And at least now the people actually have healthcare, whereas prior they did not. Give me liberty or give me death is all well fine, but I’ll take life is I have no other choice!
The embargo is certainly not the envy of the world, and Batista’s Cuba was no one’s envy, and if you recall your history, had we just played some ball with Castro in the beginning, we would have gained a happier neighbor, lost only a few bucks, and denied the USSR a valuable ally in the Caribbean. A few damned sugar bucks, oil rights and the mob came between us and a happier, albeit more socialistic, neighbor to the south. Yet another shameful, perpetual motion machine, legacy of the Cold War.
JMJ
I have a question. If we dismantle Gitmo, where do we put the prisonsers? Their home countries almost universally don’t want them. Some of the ones that do would treat them a lot worse than they are treated at Gitmo. Do you want them going through our federal court systems a la Moussaoui? Did that trial give you confidence that these people could and should be prosecuted like criminals? Yes, I don’t think anyone likes Gitmo however what I fail to find from any of its detractors is a viable solution. You seem to have zero solutions for where to put these prisoners. Tom Friedman joins a plethora of critics that pokes holes at our policies without offering solutions. You cannot just say let’s dismantle Gitmo without saying where those prisoners go.
Mike, I dare to interject.
“If we dismantle Gitmo, where do we put the prisonsers?”
Good question! What will we do now? Why did we leap fistfirst into a conflict without end? Gee… Uh… WE WERE STUPID! Now we’re stuck with all sorts of characters, who now undoubtedly hate us, who could be anything from hardcore terrorists to unlucky shmucks who had a neighbor who didn’t like ’em and wanted a reward.
“Some of the ones that do would treat them a lot worse than they are treated at Gitmo.”
And those would be our “allies!” LOL!
“…fail to find from any of its detractors is a viable solution. You seem to have zero solutions for where to put these prisoners. Tom Friedman joins a plethora of critics that pokes holes at our policies without offering solutions. You cannot just say let’s dismantle Gitmo without saying where those prisoners go.”
These detainees are the product of OUR “War on Terror.” As Gore Vidal said, “It’s like a war on dandruff!” Terror, like dandruff, is not a product of itself. It’s sardonically funny that dry land produces terror the way a dry scalp produces dandruff. Now we’re stuck with these detainees. Good job there, cons!
JMJ
Oh yeah – How about this? How about you cons figure out what to do? You’re the ones that made this mess. (And no,you can’t just shoot people without a trial.)
JMJ
i see you found another someone to debate with, Jersey
“even the dumbest Americans can tell what a steaming pile of lying, poisonous, conflicted, rabble-rousing malfactors the GOP turned out to be.”
.” Americans aren’t very bright ”
The cons have lost the Senate and the House and the governors and state legislators are following along. They are losing everywhere. It took them a record time to lose their power,
Uh… WE WERE STUPID!
Gosh, seems like the stupid Americans are going to make another intelligent vote in 08 by bringing in the moonbats.
Sorry, I couldnt resist seeing someone call Americans idiots for voting in Bush.
But now its O.K. because even though they’re still idiots they’re going to vote democratic.
After 200+ years Americans will all have an epiphany on election day 2008,
Even after seeing what happened when they voted in the worst congress ever in our history.
LOL
I’m not going to debate you on this. I just thought that thought would be good for others to chew on.
I cant even keep a straight face anymore.
Your guys lose and fail and screw up and you don’t want to debate me, huh?
Sur-prise, sur-prise!
Face it – the GOP failed in every way for the past almost seven years (and they weren’t doin’ much before that!). The only success the cons and Reps can claim is that enriched themselves and their friend a little at the expense of the American taxpayer and consumer. Yeah, great job there.
JMJ
Debate yourself first. And try to figure out if we are all as stupid as you say.
Or not. My god, if we are all so stupid theres not much hope is there? Move to Canada, or France.
The same idiots you speak of that gave us the war you think is such a big mistake are the same ones you have such great faith in to elect moonbats.
Make up your mind.
I dont really want to debate you because its all the same thing everytime. And Ive chewed you up and spat you out before. And all the olive branchs you offered had thorns in them.
But you really should decide if we are all idiots that you despise. Or smart enough to see it your way.
You really have an awful lot to bitch about, god dont you get tired of it ? Look at your last 4 posts ! Bla bla bla this is screwed and they scrwed up this and they scrwed up that and they cant do anything right and what a bunch of idiots and bad job this and that, and they failed and we’re stupid and they lost this and they hate us.
You’re boring already.
But dont ever think I’m afraid to debate you my friend.But there is no point in it because you are entrenched with hate. I have moved on to a higher and more substantial place. I wont climb back down there with you.
Interesting that you would take on Friedman as your “standard Jewish liberal” that needs “cranial-glutial extraction surgery.” Although it is a clearly debatable issue, many people — both liberal and conservative — would strongly disagree with painting Friedman with the liberal brush.
In November 2003 Friedman argued that the war in Iraq was the most important U.S. democracy-building project since the Marshall Plan. He praised the war as “one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad.”
He has also written that “The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. . . . McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the U.S. Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.” See Friedman’s book “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” and I think the words appeared even earlier. “For globalism to work,,” he continued, “America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is.”
One can be patriotic, support the troops, support America, and continue loving God, mother and apple pie and still realize that American foreign policy in the Middle East and especially in dealing with terrorism has been so patently mishandled by the Bush Administration as to actually make us not safer but more vulnerabile than ever.
hey, Jersey, I’m adding your blog to my blogroll
The only reason you might be able to hold onto the White House is because the Dems just might be naive enough to think that America would vote for a black man named Obama or a woman people believe is “shrill.”
Nice, Jersey. I see where your head is at today. America just isn’t ready to get over it’s racism and sexism.
I’ve no problem with a black man named Obama if said man is more than a liberal junior senator with a resume as thin as Hillary’s, prone to idiotic pronouncements on foreign affairs and laboring under the idea that Amercians aren’t taxed enough.
As for Hillary: A woman? Sure. Even a shrill one, if she isn’t lying, pandering, bullying, power-mad socialist who is trying to become commander-in-chief of a military that she loathes. If you think being a shrill woman is what makes level-headed Americans run away screaming from her, you’re being purposely obtuse.
Oh, yeah, and on the accomplishments of the political parties. Since their big 2006 “mandate,” the only significant thing congressional Democrats have accomplished is the one thing they swore they wouldn’t do – continue to fund the war.
You can claim we’re more vulnerable than before, but given the number of terrorist attacks in the U.S. since The Date That Can No Longer Be Named, that’s a tough one to make stick. I certainly feel less vulnerable than I would if the Dem candidate had won in 04, or will if a Dem wins in 08.
Eric,
I found the most extraordinary column about Rudy in a local Midland, Texas paper. It seems a lot more appropriate for the New York Times than for a heartland Red state america paper. Here is my blog.
http://proprietornation.blogspot.com/2007/10/hatchet-job-masquerading-as-political.html
I am going to write the editor letting them know that I will make this article the symbol of biased and unfair journalism. If you want to help write them as well.
I loved this part about Guiliani:
“Yes, he cut taxes 23 times. Yes, revenues went up. Yes, welfare rolls went down. This is not a miracle. It is Economics 101. He referred to rich people during his speech as “productive people.” When you punish those who are productive, they lose incentives to produce. Everybody loses.”
This is the message that needs to reach the people. Most people are striving to be successful, and in America (at least for now) it is still possible. The socialism that the Democrats want to impose on us will make success impossible and reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator all of whom will be dependent on the benevolence of he elitists in charge.