Fristman unit!

“…you’re just an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill…”

Kathy Griffin delivers that line funnier…

Phillip Weiss said we should be listening to Henry Siegman instead but he’s not invited anywhere.

Let Us Praise the Greatest Mensch Who Walks the Earth. Henry Siegman

http://www.philipweiss.org/mon.....us-pr.html

Is there a transcript? I find a lot of these disgusting idiots difficult to watch.

Sorry, but:

“You was in the wrong place at the wrong time, f****t.”

Is NOT an effective foreign policy, Mr. Friedman.

Yeesh. He’s so clearly getting his jollies saying that.

why so late to the party on this one?

this video has been bandied about for the last few months.

and i love C&L, but frequently you all post some bit of news that’s at least a week old. i can’t be the only one to notice this.

Wow, Friedman speaks as annoyingly as he writes, with that lightly condescending tone and annoying metaphors. Shut up dude.

“Suck on this” is not a foreign policy.

It’s time to stop letting the children run things.

Why is it so easy for these macho clowns to differentiate between countries and their own neighborhoods? Could not this same argument be used to go door-to-door in LA, killing and terrorizing everyone because you were car-jacked six-blocks away? Might as well take all their possessions and burn down the house too – just to show’em who’s boss. “What part of this do you not understand, ‘I was car-jacked!’”

It doesn’t matter that they’re in a different country; the people in those neighborhoods DIDN’T FUCKING DO IT! And remember, we we’re there to PROTECT them and RESCUE them from Sadaam and his WMDs – not TEACH THEM A LESSON.

This bellicose beat’em up mentality works only as long as it’s not YOUR house they’re breaking into. But that’s what bullies do; they beat up the little guy because they’re so fearful themselves.

On the other side however, he was somewhat refreshingly honest in saying that we started a war in Iraq (as opposed to other MidEast countries) simply “Because we could”. He didn’t try to obscure the reasons with WMD/Democracy/AQI/OverThereNotOverHere/etc. He just kind of confirms the most cynical reasons for starting a war of choice: 1. to “carry a big stick”, 2. to break a bubble of mideastern perception of the US, 3. Becuase we could. I wish the other “pundits” were this honest.

What a complete dickhead. Fine to send “our” boys and girls over there to go house to house. “Our”???? You got a turd in your pocket you think tank piece of shit? Suck on that you asshole!

You are allowed a place in the national media because THEY ARE IN ON IT. There is no other explanation for these pundits being so historically wrong and not only escaping any damage to their careers, but as in the case of Bill Kristol, actually being rewarded with a column in Time.

THERE IS NO OTHER EXPLANATION. Stop scratching your heads.

oh wait, shhhhh, everyone be quiet, thomas FRIEDMAN, the smartest man on the planet, is going to speak….

/snark off

but, seriously folks, this douchebag must be ridiculed at every possile moment. friedman has been proven wrong almost as much as paul wolfotwits.

and the fact that people read ‘the earth is flat’ and take it seriously still astonishes me. the man is never right, believes his own bullshit (to a scary degree), and still is treated like some sort of svengali… i think i am going to go pull my hair out one by one.

FU indeed tom, FU indeed.

Oooh. He’s on Charlie Rose. That’s means he gotta say sumpin’ smart. Douche.

They ought to send these hawks to Anbar to show the Iraqis the ways of freedom and democracy. I guarantee the Iraqi response will be “suck on this”.

Hey, at least he seems like he is being honest about what he feels. Refreshing aye? Makes you wonder if other pro war politicians think this but know how much trouble they would get in if they said it.

My gaydar is going off again– BIG time!!! He’s acting “macho” to hide a secret. I’ve seen it a million times. Ha ha ha, what a loser. I think this is the first time I’ve seen this guy. Hopefully the last. What a cretin.

PS Friedman, if you wanna score with the boys do something about your hair– actually get a total make-over. Simply repulsive. My flesh would crawl if you touched me.

Tom Friedman has the credibility of some of Jerry Springer’s guests. Heck, he even uses the same language. If it weren’t for the black background one could have easily confused this video with a clip from the Jerry Springer show.

…Holy shit. That’s some evolved discourse for you. “Suck on this.”

When was this?

Just watch his hands flit around and his head bobble on a gymbal. The more he tries to act like a man, the more his bodylanguage looks like a strung-out transvestite hooker.
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You must understand: It’s not only the World, but Friedman’s “brain waves” that are “flat.”

I always get a laugh when I watch people like Tom Friedman. Oh sure they have the tough talk down pat but they never had the guts nor the brains to go along with it. They have been wrong about everything in Iraq but yet they still get up there and beat their gums. Besides, its “geniuses” like friedman that shifted the balance in the Middle East to Iran. They did this by removing Hussein and the Taliban. Real smooth nitwit!

Frankly, I do not see a “mancho man” sitting there on that screen. I see a fool that should be ignored or at worse, thrown out of the building.

“Suck on this”? For the sake of humanity, please please, leave it in your pants (or call Larry Craig. I hear he’s tapping for action.)

Another Iraq war cheerleader bites the dust.
Will Friedman follow Judy Miller to rightwing thinktank Manhattan Institute?

Six months!

Since shame is extinct, maybe regret could be resuscitated.

Paleoliberals 1
Neocons 0

Can we send his atrocious combover to Iraq?

he’s crazy

Boy I tell ya. Times sure have changed. I have read that in history, many advisors to countries that where this incompetent and wrong as Friedman where either thrown out or sent to the front lines. Some where even beheaded by the ruler that listened to them. George Bush on the other hand likes to promote these people. The more incomptent and wrong they are the more Bush likes them.

I abhor violence. But I hope someone, someday makes thia man face the hell he and his ilk have unleashed on so many innocents.
Why aren’t these developmentally delayed morons being institutionalized instead of interviewed? Are we as a nation so morally bankrupt that this is considered a reasonable and responsible voice?
If so, we deserve the consequences that will surely come from listening to this “man”.

I enjoyed learning that we hit Iraq for the same reason that a dog licks his balls.

That clip is from the 30 May 2003 show. Just a couple of months after the start of the war.

There’s not much to suck on, sir.

Or in other words: You can throw out your faux-macho analogies as much as you want, “that part of the world”, as you call it, thinks that they got us by the balls pretty good. If this whole sorry enterprise was meant to impress someone it’s gone pretty badly wrong. Cause everybody now sees, what a little “insurgence” can do to our moral.

So much for locker room policies. Well done, indeed.

This guy is a nutcase, BIG time. Reminds me of tirade from some drunkard. He is part of the the 36% .

If anyone ever needed a bitch-slappin’, he’s the man.

“Because we could”???? What happened to the WMD and the mushroom cloud, Tommy-boy. You’re nothing but a big-talking, cowardly creep.

He sounds like Ted Nugent. I wonder why these guys are so obsessed with making other guys suck on things?

I’m astounded; I’ve never liked Tom, but normally he is at least a bit more subtle, and doesn’t babble about bubbles. Honestly, what is he talking about other than lashing out in misguided rage? Props to Dave for the Apocalypse Now reference.

It would appear the only thing standing between Tom F. and a oneway ticket to the Funny Farm are his good personal grooming habits.

Nicole,

I think maybe this will end if Clinton were elected?

For me I personally believe that US Americans will be safer if we elected the first woman capable of being elected…

Look at the Nordic countries! There are a significant number of women in public offices and you see how they wage wars with the world?

THEY DRAW CARTOONS OF THEIR ENEMIES!!! hahahahahahahaha

Actually I think this is a good way to solve a lot of the world’s problems!!! If everyone did it…

Tom Friedman married a billionaire but the media lets him do the “average guy” shtick

“something so heinous, so egregious, so over-the-top offensive”

Best definition of American national platform I’ve heard.

What he fails to metion is he is a for Israel only writer. Protect and defend Israel at all costs. Thats the message he is hiding under all his posturing. And that includes most of the Irag study group too. Perle, wolfowitz, on and on it goes.

This guy looks like he can be found any evening down on all fours in some men’s room!

I’ve come up with a new definition that fits Friedman and his Neocon buddies. We will call them what they really are:

Neron-(n): 1. A cross between the Roman Emperor Nero and a Moron. 2. A person that thinks they are as ruthless, tough, and sadistic as the Roman Emperor Nero but tend to be totally incompetent and wrong about every military conflict.

Grand Moff Texan @ 19:

Just watch his hands flit around and his head bobble on a gymbal. The more he tries to act like a man, the more his body language looks like a strung-out transvestite hooker.
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That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read. LMAO.

Actually, ‘Suck on this’ is probably what was going through the heads of bastards who flew those planes into the WTC in the first place. When are we going to stop listening to simpletons who reduce geopolitics down to the level school yard shit-talk???

Sometimes “a very big stick”, is just that,a weapon, a stick.

Unless one follows with the “suck on this” schtick.

As he abuses his Astroglide to keep his hair slick.

(snick)

Well, I just emailed the NYT, telling them what an idiot I think Friedman is, and that I couldn’t understand why they keep publishing him. I am sure they will reply saying that I am a fool who doesn’t understand the intricacies of US foreign policy as the Very Serious People Who Write For The Very Serious Establishment Media. But then, I am only a patriotic American who deosn’t really want to see my fellow country run through a meat grinder. Pity my foolishness. Maybe I’ll change my mind in SIX MONTHS (LOL!).

Thomas Friedman, ehh… I give up

I think I’m going to be ill…

It’s fascinating that the clip you have following this is from a real journalist and a real man named Walter Cronkite. Friedman isn’t even man enough to shine Cronkite’s shoes.

Quoting Ted Nugent!@#$%^ - that’s it, I’m moving to Never Never Land. Who’s he going to quote next, Ted Bundy??

Friedman is an ass.