Posted on 06/14/2006 4:20:06 PM PDT by apackof2
I’ve spent much of the past week trying to get a letter to the editor published in The New York Times in response to the recent Tom Friedman rant (subscription required) against GM (see “Hyperbole and Defamation at The New York Times,” June 1).
I failed. This is my story.
For those of you who haven’t read it already, Mr. Friedman spent 800 words on the Times op/ed page to accuse GM of supporting terrorists, buying votes in Congress and being a corporate “crack dealer” that posed a serious threat to America’s future. He suggested the nation would be better off if Japan’s Toyota took over GM.
Mr. Friedman later acknowledged in television interviews that the column was a bit “over the top,” but that he wanted to get our attention.
He got it.
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Its a duplicate (sorry!)and there is new posting on the orginal thread here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1648127/posts
Thanks
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