Tom Friedman on Lou Dobbs

Red State from Yale Law School ^ | Feb 28th, 2006 | Pat Cleary

[george76]

Globalization guru Tom Friedman called Lou Dobbs, "a blithering idiot" in a lecture at Yale Law School last week...

Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of bestsellers "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and more recently "The World is Flat" (which sold a million and a half copies, far more than Dobbs' viewership), begins his answer.

"One of the problems", he begins, explaining that we need leaders who can explain the complexity, not who will just stir the pot, "is we have politicians that are making us stupid, who are throwing sand in our eyes."

But then he goes on:

"And then you have a blithering idiot like Lou Dobbs, in my view, who's using the platform of CNN in...the frame of a news show.

This is not news.

And so we have a political class not making sense of the world for people and that's why the public...is so agitated."

Ouch.

[Jake The Goose]

You would do well to read, and listen - and stop reacting to what others tell you.

Do you honestly beleive the UAE are not our allies?

My oh my .... yee of little understanding and knowledge.

The world is more complicated than the nightly news broadcasts.

[fireballxl5]

There is nothing anti-latino or anti-chinese in what Lou Dobbs says. There is disagreement among respected economists on the benefit of free trade with China and the current illegal immigration situation.

I'm anti-illegal mexican. If that makes me a racist in your opinion, so be it. Lou hasn't said anything different.

Small business men who hire legal workers and minorities are being hurt by the flood of illegals. The overall US economy may grow in total, but Larry Kudlow and others have it wrong. It is like blood money. We can't screw citizens at the bottom bracket to keep the GDP and dow up.