By some weird coincidences, I knew Tom Friedman’s mother. She was heartbroken over his anti-American and anti-Israel views.
I don’t closely follow the guy nor do I read the NYTimes. I initially noticed Friedman over his articles touting the wonderful efficiency of the ChiComs, and he got much of his notoriety over those claims and that story.
At the time, perhaps a decade ago, I wasn’t quite so aware of the extreme leftist bias of the NYT and did not especially make the connection that, if TF was proudly emblazoned inside the NYT, he must have the same kind of flaming liberal views we all know the NYTimes of today has.
Somehow, TF seems to have backed off his ChiCom bandwagon a tad, but, as I said, I don’t really follow him in real time...or any other way for that matter. Actually I think he’s kind of a complete idiot, and an especially irritating one at that because he believes he’s possessed with some special insight. Well, yeah, he figured out a way to marry into astounding wealth.
Now we know that TF resembles nothing so much as the kinds of folks from the thirties who thought Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin ran really cool, efficient countries with their imposed disciplines and wouldn’t it be great if we emulated them.