We are all wankers now
Thomas Friedman, the Art Buchwald of the op-ed page, turns to comedy:
Ah, those French. How silly can they be? The European Union wants to consolidate its integration and France, trying to protect its own 35-hour workweek and other welfare benefits, rejects the E.U. constitution. What a bunch of antiglobalist Gaullist Luddites! Yo, Jacques, what world do you think you’re livin’ in, pal? Get with the program! It’s called Anglo-American capitalism, mon ami.
No, it’s called shut your motherfucking pie hole you annoying piece of excrement. There. It sure is fun poking fun at Thomas Friedman.
The French economic instinct is not one we want to start emulating now, just as the global playing field is being flattened, bringing in more competitors from Poland to China to India. This is a time to play to our strengths of openness, flexibility and willingness to embrace creative destruction, and lead on free trade.
Just as? Except for Tom Friedman, is there any sentient adult over the age of 21 who hasn’t known about a “global playing field” for a couple of decades by now?
Isn’t he a bit late? The French NO vote was about 2 weeks ago. And God forbid that any country except for America should make their own choices about anything, that just makes them a bunch of lily livered pansy gay motherfuckers.
Global playing field my ass. It’s a global killing field.
Just as? Except for Tom Friedman, is there any sentient adult over the age of 21 who hasn’t known about a “global playing field” for a couple of decades by now?
No, that quote isn’t about the global playing field. It’s about how that playing field is now flat, which coincidentally happens to be the theme of his new book-length turd.
Hey! Lay off Art Buchwald! What did he ever do to you?
I wonder if Tommy would change his tune if he were to suffer some of that “creative destruction” he’s so fond of? Strip the fatuous dunderhead to his underwear, drop him in Lagos, and say, “Hey, Tom, see if you can find your way back to prosperity and your high-rise condo in New York from here, where the world’s really, really flat.”
Jeez, if Brooks and Tierney weren’t sharing the op-ed page with him, you could say there’s no way the New York Times could sink any lower.
Airmiles: The French economic instinct is not one we want to start emulating now…
It would appear that you could summarize the French economic instinct as “protecting the interests of the French working class.” We, Friedman? We don’t want to emulate the French economic instinct by protecting the interests of the American working class?
If that we includes me, I can tell you for damn sure that at least some of us would like to see someone in the U.S. Government trying to do something that would benefit the American working man for a change. It would be a welcome relief from the last quarter-century of non-stop pounding by the investing class’s servants in Washington.