Posted on 02/10/2021 8:03:08 AM PST by SJackson
Thomas Friedman overlooked accusations of genocide because China has high-speed trains
China is a much better place than America despite those pesky accusations of genocide against Uighurs, according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
A formal legal opinion recently published in the United Kingdom and cited by the BBC on Sunday concluded that here is a "very credible case" that China is carrying out genocide against Uighurs," but Friedman feels the communist nation is much better off than the United States anyway.
Friedman appeared on CNN’s "Cuomo Prime Time" on Monday night to declare that China has luxurious high-speed trains because they don’t have to worry about people like former President Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. The Times columnist said the GOP "sold their soul" to Trump and essentially claimed the United States would have better methods of mass transportation if it followed in China’s footsteps.
"Do you know that it takes four hours and 18 minutes to take the Bullet Train from Beijing to Shanghai? And it takes 21 hours to take the train from New York to Chicago and they’re both about the same distance," Freidman told Chris Cuomo, who nodded along to his every word, in a clip flagged by Mediaite.
"I'll tell you something they weren’t thinking about in China this week. They weren’t thinking about some knucklehead. They weren’t spending the week thinking about a knucklehead who claimed 9/11 didn’t happen. They weren’t thinking about some guy who is a QAnon shaman," Freidman continued. "They were probably thinking about some bad stuff with the Uighurs and all of that, oh, for sure, but I guarantee you they weren’t wasting their time on this nonsense."
The left-wing Cuomo didn’t ask a follow-up on the "bad stuff with the Uighurs,"
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Tucker Carlson played a clip of this braying jackass on a recent show.
Maybe the NY Times reporter will get a Pulitzer Prize just like Walter Duranty.
....and the NYT continues it’s apologetics for every tyrant on earth. They liked Stalin, Mao, Castro....they probably would have approved of Attila the Hun, as well.
Seems of a kind with the NY Times’ coverage of the Holodomor (Ukrainian genocide via starvation) by the Soviets, courtesy of Walter Duranty.
Give up your 14,000 sq ft mansion first, then we’ll talk.
I don't like Friedman, and there is a lot even in this interview with which I disagreed. But the particular point being referenced here isn't quite fair. Cuomo didn't say anything in response to Friedman because Friedman wasn't on board with impeachment, and Cuomo didn't want to draw attention to that point.
Friedman must be a great fan of Mussolini. He was said to have been a great leader because he “made the trains run on time.”
If you are in a hurry to get from New York to Chicago, you fly rather than take a train. Wheels up to wheels down, it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes.
Umm, OK -let’s put all democrats in da gulag.
New York Times = SNL Gone Bad
Dumbest thing I ever read, 秦先生。
“New York Times columnist dismisses ‘bad stuff with the Uighurs,’ says America should be more like China”
Hey, the way the Muslims have “migrated” into the US and then spend all of their time trying to destroy it maybe the Chinese know what was going to happen and stopped it.
Freidman lost his mind a long time ago.
I have LONG been a distinct NON-fan of Thomas Friedman. All he needs is a pair of long pointed ears to complete his look.
I wonder what this douche would have thought if the bad orange man had started ruling like China
why are they always so obsessed with trains ?
Yes, there was that business with the Jews, and the unpleasantness in Poland, but look how clean that country is, and what a wonderful Olympic host they were!
白色自由主义者 - A term of derision on Chinese social media. (White Liberal)
Thomas “Duranty” Friedman
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.