Comments on: Tom Friedman Strikes Again

By: When You’ve Lost Tom Friedman… « David Klion

When You’ve Lost Tom Friedman… « David Klion — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:09:12 +0000

[...] avenger Tom Friedman has a column today in which he unloads on Israel. Friedman may have the most famously awful prose in all of punditry, but he’s still a useful barometer of liberal Jewish public opinion. And [...]

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Flathead: Occupy Thomas Friedman | Occupy | Decolonize | Liberate — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:41:03 +0000

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By: Bashing NYT Columnists, Then and Now « David Klion

Bashing NYT Columnists, Then and Now « David Klion — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:08:58 +0000

[...] prose is practically a rite of passage at this point, of course, with able examples here, here, and [...]

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Death-Defying Institutional Brands | china lifestyle — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:24:58 +0000

[...] who think The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman is a foreign policy expert, or at least a good writer (warning: the Matt Taibbi prose behind those last two links could cause dangerous convulsions of [...]

By: Say what, Tom Friedman? « Joint Stock Company

Say what, Tom Friedman? « Joint Stock Company — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:53:32 +0000

[...] and only you hated it, then you’ll really, really appreciate these three brilliant Friedman reviews by Matt [...]

By: Why did Conservation International invite Thomas Friedman to go to Brazil? « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:20:48 +0000

[...] fucked,” Taibbi writes. Taibbi has taken apart Thomas Friedman’s manner of speaking on several (very entertaining) [...]

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deleted account — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:23:37 +0000

“I’m with Diane. If you don’t like him–and it’s clear by your language you don’t–then stop reading and ranting. It makes you sounds like an angry young man. Full of sound and fury darlin’.”

But it’s funny and it makes Friedman look bad I don’t see the downside

By: How not to write (part 2) &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time

How not to write (part 2) &#8212 Matt’s Waste of Your Time — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:22:34 +0000

[...] was critiqued by Matt Taibbi in typical style: I’m not sure how possible it is to swim “buck naked — in more ways than [...]

By: andras

andras — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:42:07 +0000

Gee Nora,

I guess this might read like a rant if you thought that T.F. was a great writer. To me it looked like a deconstruction of some really lame-assed writing. Also, rants are seldom as funny and well reasoned in their undeniable truth as this is.

I do like your use of condescension though, “darlin’”. Very effective way to patronize some very effective criticism. Looks like you just hit a nerve Matt.

By: ptullis

ptullis — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:49:16 +0000

The column– Taibbi’s– is genius, and needed to be written. The “sound and fury” reference, with its implied corollary — that Taibbi here “signif[ies] nothing” — is completely inappropriate for the context. Friedman has such a reputation for brilliance (despite his alarming rate of error, and tendency toward repetition), yet is such an atrocious writer, that someone needed to deconstruct exactly why: too often readers are left scratching their heads, thinking there’s something they don’t get, when in fact it’s TF’s boneheadedness, laziness, and lack of an editor that are the problem. Thanks to Matt for pointing out that when it comes to Friedman, it’s not us, it’s him.