Taibbi's hilarious take on Friedman's latest mangled opus

Bottom line: if any of you still believes that Thomas Friedman is a cogent geopolitical analyst, or even (wince!) a good writer, then please read these two Matt Taibbi posts.  Friedman doesn't just mix metaphors, he holds them in his iron fist as he blows them up and drenches them in acid then midwifes them into a new twisted (non-)meaning.  (No kidding, those are all real Friedman mixed metaphors).  The dude really must be smoking weed.

The Grenade of Understanding: Winners of the Write-Like-Friedman Challenge

By Matt Taibbi

November 15, 2012 | Rolling Stone

URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/the-grenade-of-understanding-winners-of-the-write-like-friedman-challenge-20121115#ixzz2CVrqvAby

Rewrite Thomas Friedman's Syria Column, Win a Free Hand Grenade

By Matt Taibbi

November 14, 2012 | Rolling Stone

URL: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/rewrite-thomas-friedmans-syria-column-win-a-free-hand-grenade-20121114#ixzz2CVrh3yOP

Taibbi's readers' responses to his challenge to one-up Friedman's nonsense were hilarious.  When random smart people chime in brilliantly it renews my faith in the Internet.  On the other hand, Thomas Friedman still writes for the NYT, he's still all over the Internet, still filthy rich, and still gets listened to by all sorts of influential people, which kind of cancels out my faith in the Internet.  Or just humanity.  I cant decide which.