Atrios reminds us that its been five years to the day that Friedman shared this wonderful sentiment with America.
Friedman: What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?” You don’t think, you know we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna to let it grow? Well, Suck. On. This. That Charlie is what this war is about. We could of hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. Could of hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.
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And yet the media still tries to excuse their blunders that have resulted in this unnecessary war that has killed thousands and thousands of people. Live—breathing—people. Does it appear to you that the talking heads are not talking to the American people these days, but rather—they seem to be talking to themselves. “We didn’t cover the run-up to the war so badly.” “Yea, way to go Brian. You too Charlie!
Wikipedia explains what an F.U. or Friedman Unit is right here.
Duncan sums up Thomas Friedman quite nicely:
But the problem with Tom Friedman is that he’s very serious and taken very seriously. Unlike Maureen Dowd whose gibberish has lost its influence over the years, Tommy “Suck On This” Friedman is still The Most Serious Foreign Affairs Man In America. When Tom Friedman speaks, people listen, even as his metaphors become as bad as his advice.
So on Suck On This Day we should do our part to convince as many people as we can that Tom Friedman is a blithering idiot and a moral monster. Suck On This Tommy!
David Sirota writes: Billionaire Scion Tom Friedman
As the July edition of the Washingtonian Magazine notes, Friedman lives in “a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club.” He “married into one of the 100 richest families in the country” - the Bucksbaums, whose real-estate Empire is valued at $2.7 billion…read on
Jane Hamsher writes:
Forget celsius and fahrenheit, fathom and furlong. When the story of the online media revolution is told, people will wonder where the ubiquitous term for a six-month interval known as an “FU” came from…read on
Booman has more.
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Reap the whirlwind, Tommy!
Let me be first to say” Happy suck on this day Tommy. ya fuckhead
What a maroon.
Yeah, they sucked on it, and bit it off. How does that feel, loser?
“could of” should be “could’ve”
Nothing is taken more seriously than someone sitting on Old Money.
Terrorism bubble ……….. what a complete fuckwit …….. why are so many americons like this ?
O/T But McClellan on Wolfies show was very good. Need a transcipt or video pleeeeaaaassssseeeee
terror: Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
Were these all bubbles too Thomas?
US invasions
1950 Korea
1950 Puerto Rico
1953 Philippines
1954 Vietnam
1955 Europe
1956 Egypt
1957 Jordan
1958 Lebanon
1958 Indonesia
1958 Japan
1959 Haiti
1959 Nepal
1960 Congo
1960 Cuba
1960 Iraq
1961 Cuba
1961 Dominican Republic
1962 Vietnam
1962 Cuba
1962 Brazil
1962 Dominican Republic
1963 Iraq
1963 El Salvador
1964 North Vietnam
1964 South Vietnam
1964 Panama
1965 Vietnam
1965 Dominican Republic
1965 Indonesia
1965 Laos
1965 Thailand
1965 Peru
1966 Vietnam
1966 Laos
1966 Central Africa
1966 Bolivia
1967 Vietnam
1967 Cuba
1968 Vietnam
1969 Cambodia
1969 Vietnam
1970 North Vietnam
1970 Uruguay
1970 Oman
1971 Laos
1971 Vietnam
1972 North Vietnam
1972 Nicaragua
1972 Australia
1972 Iraq
1973 Cambodia
1974 Vietnam
1974 Zaire
1974 Portugal
1975 Vietnam
1975 East Timor
1975 Iraq
1975 Morocco
1976 Indonesia
1976 Philippines
1977 Pakistan
1977 Egypt
1977 Zaire
1977 Indonesia
1978 Guatemala
1979 Iran
1979 Central Africa
1979 Afghanistan
1979 Cambodia
1979 Vietnam
1979 Yemen
1980 El Salvador
1980 Honduras
1980 Iraq
1980 Cambodia
1980 Italy
1980 South Korea
1981 Tanzania
1981 El Salvador
1981 Libya
1981 Indo-China
1982 Lebanon
1982 Guatemala
1982 South Africa
1982 Afghanistan
1982 Iraq
1983 Lebanon
1983 Nicaragua
1983 Zimbabwe
1984 Mozambique
1985 Lebanon
1985 New Zealand
1985 Chad
1985 Honduras
1986 Nicaragua
1986 Libya
1987 Iran
1988 Iran
1988 Iraq
1988 Colombia
1988 El Salvador
1988 Turkey
1989 El Salvador
1989 Panama
1989 Cambodia
1989 Libya
1990 Nicaragua
1990 El Salvador
1990 Guatemala
1990 Bulgaria
1990 Germany
1991 Iraq
1991 Philippines
1992 Somalia
1992 Colombia
1992 Albania
1992 Angola
1993 Iraq
1993 Cuba
1994 Haiti
1994 Jordan
1994 Colombia
1995 Turkey
1995 Iraq
1995 Mexico
1995 Iran
1996 Iraq
1996 Mongolia
1997 Rwanda
1997 Iraq
1998 Afghanistan
1998 Iraq
1998 Sudan
1998 Turkey
1998 Guatemala
1998 South Korea
1999 Yugoslavia
1999 Iraq
1999 Guatemala
2000 Israel
2000 Kyrgyzstan
2001 Colombia
2001 China
2001 Israel
2001 Iraq
2001 Afghanistan
2002 Afghanistan
2002 Angola
2003 Iraq
2007 Somalia
we the American people should declare tommy and his
palatial estate enemy combattants and seize ALL his property,
this bastard is much like why there was a “french revolution”.
use the populace for your bidding and screw them as much
as possible. fuck the wealthy neocons and their political buddies.
such a tool
Is my girlfriend unpatriotic if she refuses to practice the standard ritual for Suck.On.This. day?
The attitude was part of the atmosphere this worst administration ever created, insisting that the little posturing tyrant Saddam was a Big Threat and we would stand up to, step over the line of, and show manhood over this Big Threat. It took a lot of fiction to make this work. Friedman was a pitiful victim. More pathetic are the millions of Iraqis this nonsense brought into play, who should be compensated by confiscation of the fortunes amassed through this moronic war.
Of course it would be highly inappropriate to suggest that Friedman be confronted at gunpoint in his own home in exactly the same manner that he urged US soldiers to invade the homes of Iraqis, Saudis, and Pakistanis.
The talking heads have been talking to themselves for years now, and begrudgingly, “letting” America eavesdrop, although they believe that we are too stupid to comprehend what they are saying.
…And there was the neocon and radical zionist bubble…
Before there was:
The World is Flat.
There was:
Iraq should be flattened.
Happy 5th, Dickhead.
That first sentence out of Rose’s mouth, “Now that the war is over.”, is just chilling.
sub human Chicken Hawk scumbag.
Quit enlisting in the military!!!!!! Stop giving them your bodies…please!!!!!!!!!!
That is the only way they can be stopped. Soldiering = criminality!!!!
“No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years” Bob Dole said that about Terry. I think it fits Mr. Fman
Friedman recently got a well-deserved pie in the face. How about another one?
How could anyone take Friedman seriously — the man is obviously………insane.
By the way. Charlie Rose is worthless!! That is why he still has a job for the military industrial complex.
You loathsome arrogant asshole ! You and your wealthy friends are the reason we invaded Iraq. It was for oil, you pompous pissant. You and your class don’t want democracy because you would be the first target; no more loop holes in the tax code for the rich. no more invading foreign countries to protect your profits, no more complacent media to lie to the populace, and you and your kids would have to fight the wars that you start. You disgust me,you murderer.
The Friedman Unit will be the basic measure of the next administration. An Obama presidency will show decreasing deployment at the end of each FU, and a McCain presidency will promise decreasing deployment at the end of the current surge, which will only last another FU or two. BTW and OT, does anyone else have an ad on this page showing a Homeland Security guard trained by the “National Polytechnic College of Science”? Is it my imagination or does he have his shoes on the wrong feet?
Hey, Freidman haters…your problem is that you’re not wearing the “Moustache of Understanding”:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc.....nding.html
Better now?
“Thomas Friedman’s Happy ‘Suck On This Day!’”
SAD FOR TOMMY BOY TO HAVE TO SHARE THIS DAY WITH MCCLELLEN’S BOOK SIGNING….
SO MANY ASSHOLES, NOW THEY HAVE TO SHARE MEMORIAL “DAYS”
Oh, this idiot is classic. “suck on this”…..how about “kiss my ass, you f*cking ass hat”.
I can’t believe time is given to such foolish talk, and such stupid theories of bullshit.
Send this ass hat door to door in Basra …with any message. I’d like to see trash like this butt hole sent over there to support this stupid act of aggression that HE is responsible for.
A classic example of dumb money talking, and the ignorant media giving them a platform to spew pure unadulterated BULL SHIT!!
27 Patricio — Thank you … now that I have hurtled through space like unfettered global capital, I do feel better.
What an ignorant, arrogant, imperialistic, crusading, explanation of a complex problem…that we helped create. Tom Friedman, you can suck your OWN dick!
Six o’clock in the freaking morning and THIS is what I get to read?
I’m going back to bed.
The “suck on this” phrase is such a juvenile phrase for him to use. That alone would discredit anything else he says.
Bob Dole has sent a letter to Scot McCellen that is so freakin’ angry. In that message he too sounds like a juvenile with the language he uses.
rend @ 9:
Excellent post, comprehensive in its length and brevity. This is the truly intolerable history of the plutocraps using others as fodder to maintain egomaniacal power and live in gluttonous luxury. A fuller history here, all good except the libertard conclusions at the end…
Looks like ‘Fuck Unit’ Friedman earned his way into economic royalty…
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ @ 32:
Good Morning Sunshine!
Well I think all of you are underestimating the world changing power of a pithy slogan!
Friedman has the defect of totally lacking self-reflection.
If he could see himself in his mind’s mirror, he’d probably be disgusted.
12 Blue–The appropriate Suck.On.This day rituals go both ways… ;-)
Blue Lensman @ 12:
Maybe someone should design a “suck on this” pin to wear to show patriotism.
…
1999 Iraq
1999 Guatemala
2000 Israel
2000 Kyrgyzstan
2001 Colombia
2001 China
2001 Israel
2001 Iraq
2001 Afghanistan
2002 Afghanistan
2002 Angola
2003 Iraq
2007 Somalia
Actually, if you look at those numbers, we find that G.W. Bush has given the U.S. its longest period of not invading other countries since 1950!
2004, 2005, 2006. THREE YEARS WOOOOHOOOO
“9-11 was the peak of that bubble.”
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it.
tehghey @ 5:
And “and a moral monster.” Should this be “and amoral monster.” ??
Lish @ 14:
But entirely appropriate to suggest that these plutocrap fuckers need to have their chains yanked hard to make their oh-so-comfortable lives unpleasant enough to knock off the murdering, starving and enslaving of their fellow humans… Personal violence is wrong, but property violence… Robin Hood, anyone?
JudyLou @ 38:
Thinks she’s gotcha licked there, Blue(something).
;-}
This guy is the poster boy for corporate America, the arrogant 1% who presume to lead all other citizens.
A hilarious and obvious attempt to suck up to ‘rock iraq’ crowd. It would be kinda sad actually, like watching the chubby, nerdy kid to try impress the cool kids and failing miserably, if there wasn’t so much suffering involved.
Its a good thing we celebrate Suck On This Day, lest we allow the Friedmans of the world to forget their suckings and regain influence.
What kills me is that when asked about Iraq, he goes on for three minutes or so blabbing about terrorists. As we all know, Iraq had nothing. to. do. with. terrorism.
It’s not “could of,” it’s “could have.”
So, the guy that planned the attack was reading right out of the Saudi playbook, and we hit Afghanistan and Iraq???
Next time some punk has a fight with me, I’ll ensure the cops arrest people two neighborhoods over and four neighborhoods over and that would make just as much sense as what the Administration mofos did. (shakes head.)
So, was Iraq responsible for 9/11? Look at the people who flew [more or less]–from which nation? Tom–why didn’t we go after Saudi? 3 breaths–
There’s no wall high enough,
No INS agent smart enough,
ain’t no mountian high enough,
ain’t no valley low enoigh,
ain’t no river wiiiiide enough….
To keep me from gettin to you babe.
“Well SUCK ON THIS.”
I love it.
mary @ 50:
Because Saudi could squeeze our balls with a grip of iron with all the oil they have.
I stopped reading Tom Friedman ages ago when helped propagate the war. His only interest lies with Israel. Whatever serves Israel’s purpose is okay with Tom no matter the cost of blood and treasure from the US. Another overpaid “Pulitzer” out the famous NYT.