Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.
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Thomas Friedman Is An Enormous Mustache
Thomas Friedman is like a goldfish who only sees China, jobs, and the Internet.
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@merl:
As James said in a OTB post at one point, Thomas Friedman is in favor of the creation of a political party that believes exactly the same things as Thomas Friedman.
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You know, in another thread I was just talking about jobs as being “a globalization, automation, and productivity thing.”
The Mustache may have been wrong, may be wrong, about a lot of things, but he should get some credit for pushing “the world is flat” out to the masses.
One thing you *can’t* say about him is that he missed the biggest story of the decade.
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A bit ironic that the video rags Friedman for the thing he was right about?
It isn’t that “China, Jobs, and the Internet” aren’t big, and do not continue to shape American business (perhaps more than anything else), it’s just that the cool kids are tired of hearing about it.
Never mind that we are in a jobless recovery that might be about that repeat message.
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He reminds me of a few guys I knew in college (friends of friends) – guys who shared many of the same ideas or policy preferences that I had, only they had a knack for making it sound like those ideas were original with them. It was somewhat annoying. Most of them were political science or history majors who went on to law school.
Friedman is a smart guy with a lot of influence in the world of journalism and op-ed columns. He’s an updated version of Bob Woodward. They’re both somewhat annoying.
