Karl Rove, a Cancer on American Politics? [Columnist Tom Friedman..........]

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[proud_yank]

On some level, they realise that living in exact harmony with their so-called principles would require moving to (or even visiting) North Korea or Cuba. But there is no Chardonnay and brie there.

True, but many of them do hold true to their principles that 'being generous', means doing so with someone else's money :-)

[My2Cents]

Good point. One last beltch of hate before election day.

[My2Cents]

Friedman is a pimple on the arse of the body politic.

[Straight Vermonter]

His 'genius' is taking some irrelevant aside by John Kerry and twisting it to bring out the worst in us, so you will ignore the mess that the Bush team has visited on this country.

I wonder if Mr. Friedman can explain what Mr Rove's role was in all of this. I sure as hell can't see it.

[StAnDeliver]

"Karl Rove is supposed to advise the President on the political implications of decisions. If Karl couldn't figure out Harriet was a major flub, or that amnesty for illegals was bad, or that spending like a drunk sailor wouldn't endear the republican party to its base - then Karl is damn stupid!"

I didn't know Rove was President. Please cite where Rove approved of each of those memes.

"And I'm not harming the republican party by pointing that fact out!"

Neither am I for pointing out ill-informed malcontents.

[nitejohnboy]

Tom is preaching to the choir. Who else will read his blatherings. The stalinist left has been after Rove since the very first days of the Bush Presidency. Rove has the nerve to be politically savvy and win for his client! I guess he didn't get the message that only the swells at the NYT and WOP and the rest of the stalinist media know how to win.
Rove is a cancer? Friedman and his sick circle of freaks is a leperous boil.

[Mr Rogers]

Please cite any indication Rove OPPOSED those moves.

Either he approved, or the President ignored his advice on the most important areas raised for political concern. If the former, he should be fired of incompetence. If the latter, he should be fired for irrelevance.

[big'ol_freeper]

[GOP_Raider]

I'll take Karl, the Magnificent Bastard any day over stooges like Joe Lockhart or James "I can suck a golf ball through a garden hose" Carville.

[mad_as_he$$]

Friedman a pox on the house with a dripping pen of gonorrhea. If you are dong disease name calling

[jaycee]

AMEN~~~~

[jaycee]

Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!

[jaycee]

I'm for that.

[jaycee]

Ewww, he is uglier than usual!

[Panzerlied]

Will you send me naughty pictures of yourself if I do, Johnny sweetykins?

[atomic conspiracy]

Rats can get cancer too, so in a sense Friedman is right.

[texicali]

that's sad Miss Marple but understandable

[kcvl]

5/16/06

New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman is considered by many of his media colleagues to be one of the wisest observers of international affairs. "You have a global brain, my friend," MSNBC host Chris Matthews once told Friedman (4/21/05). "You're amazing. You amaze me every time you write a book."

The Washingtonian reports that "his annual income easily reaches seven figures." In the Maryland suburbs near Washington, three years ago, "the Friedmans built a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million," on a parcel of more than seven acres near Bethesda Country Club and the Beltway.

Throughout his journalistic career, Friedman has been married to Ann Bucksbaum -- heiress to a real-estate and shopping-mall fortune now estimated at $2.7 billion. When the couple wed back in 1978, according to The Washingtonian article, Friedman became part of "one of the 100 richest families in the country."

David Sirota wrote at the time, "what's truly astonishing is that Tom Friedman, the person who the media most relies on to interpret trade policy, now publicly runs around admitting he actually knows nothing at all about the trade pacts he pushes in his New York Times column."

It's reasonable to ask whether Friedman -- perhaps the richest journalist in the United States -- might be less zealously evangelical for "globalization" if he hadn't been so wealthy for the last quarter of a century. Meanwhile, it's worth noting that the corporate forces avidly promoting his analysis of economic options are reaping massive profits from the systems of trade and commerce that he champions.

"Thomas Friedman is arguably the world's most influential and popular foreign-policy thinker," The Washingtonian reported. If so, he may be a prime example of the unfortunate effects of "globalization."

[usmcobra]

Imus thinks he is the stuff. He has him on his show all the time. And then Imus will turn around and say he is a Republican. Give us a break Imass!!

Never misunderestimate the power of Rove to cloud the minds of liberals.

[kalee]

Rove? No.
James Carville gets my vote as one form of cancer in American politics.