[Peace-discuss] Capturing Friedman

[C. G. Estabrook]

  The question is, Why does TF think it worthwhile to invoke a third party for 
2012? The answer, I think, is to try to keep political discussion within the 
limits of allowable debate. The teapartiers threaten to breech the limits, as do 
those sympathetic to the victims of the FBI raids.  Friedman, by naming the 
danger, hopes to turn it aside.

On 10/3/10 11:17 AM, David Green wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion 
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opinion/03friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion>
> The subject reference is to a movie about an accused child molester. Thomas 
> Friedman is a pompous, pretentious, self-absorbed gasbag. But what he says 
> indicates how (liberal) people who own the country think. Today's columan is 
> important for a number of reasons: the promotion of a frightening "radical 
> center" (analagous to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s promotion 60 years ago of a 
> "vital center" to favor the invasion of Korea, etc); and the specter of the 
> cooperation of that proto-fascist, establishment "radical center" with 
> whatever aspect of the Tea Party movement is more authentically fascist--i.e., 
> TP leaders and publicists, rather than the inchoate populism of many of its 
> adherents (with nowhere else to go). And Friedman's posturing that equates the 
> "far left" with the "far right," without mentioning their common opposition to 
> war. Unlike pundits like Walter Lippmann of an earlier era, Friedman has no 
> measured conception of the use of our military--Lippmann actually opposed the 
> Vietnam War as inconsistent with "containment", and was punished with 
> obscurity late in his life for doing so. Friedman would not allow this to 
> happen; thus he will support a Hindenburg cutting a deal with a Hitler, and 
> will volunteer to write a book justifying it, which will be better than 
> anything Goebbels could have come up with.
> DG
>
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