Tom Friedman just vaulted into first place for the Marie Antoinette Privileged-class Obliviousness Award for 2016. And he’s set a high mark, folks. Can the perennial favorite, David Brooks, best him? Stay tuned!
Update: Catch the comments at the New York Times. Friedman is being skewered.
Popularized by Horatio Alger, embodied by Henry Ford. I guess the pluralism includes pedopliles and raging anti-semites. Every shoulder to the wheel!
That editorial was the most smarmy paean to capitalist exploitation in an editorial I have seen him write in years – and that’s saying something. I can see why he is getting skewered in the comments. Why didn’t he just come out and say that he wants us proletarians to quit complaining about our exploitation and work harder because his class isn’t getting rich enough fast enough?
Goatherd’s comment reminded me of the words of a Mormon hymn that was popular in my youth:
Put your shoulder to the wheel, push along!
Do your duty with a heart full of song!
We all have work, let no man shirk,
Put your shoulder to the wheel!
I could have added:
‘Cause we capitalist pigs ain’t gettin’ rich enough, quick enough!
Friedman writes: “Ted Cruz speaks of our government in the same way as the anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist”.
No shit Sherlock and every Republicant for last two decades has signed Norquist’s anti-tax pledge, so where the fuck have you been? Your right Maha, Obliviousness pretty much nails it!
I refuse to read Neckbeard (Douthat), the Cabbage (Brooks), and now I must add Milk Mustache to the list.
Curse you, maha!
I haven’t read a Friedman column since he was in his, “If we do X in Iraq, it should work! We’ll know in another 6 months, “glory.
Well, on the plus side, in this column, he didn’t find some brown-skinned cab driver in some 3rd World country who, despite not speaking a word od English, agrees with everything Tom “The ‘Stache of Doom to Others” Friedman, has to say.
Jeez, when will the NY Times realize that all Bobo, Douchehat, MoDo, and The ‘Stache have to offer, are some chuckles amongst all of the derision.
And nice of ‘Stache to finally notice that the GOP train jumped the rails after leaving Crazy Town, and headed for parts no sane people have gone before
Btw Tom, that started happening about 52 “Freidman Units” ago.
Yeeeeeeeesh…
With enough hard work anyone can use entrepreneurship to pave their own way to prosperity and strengthen their communities by creating jobs and growing their local economy.
There’s something missing from this equation. And I think it’s more than just quantifying what enough is. Although I do like the sound of paving my way to prosperity..It give me an entrepreneurial erection.
Thirty years ago I might have eagerly lapped up every ounce of drool that Friedman spilling, but after getting bit by the 2008 financial crisis I had a sobering epiphany that gave meaning and truth to interpreting the American Dream..”I was blind,but now I see!”
Friedman needs to go write another self help book.. What I can conceive,I can achieve.
Dear Tommy-
Suck.
On.
This.