Interesting this Freidman...
Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002 10:31 a.m. EDT
N.Y. Timesman in Nutball Rant: Bush Is a 'Silly Frat Boy'
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New York Times ace Mideast columnist Thomas Friedman manages to sound relatively sane and evenhanded when writing under his own byline, but he comes off sounding like an anti-Bush nutball conspiracy theorist in an upcoming interview with Rolling Stone Magazine.
"I don't think [Bush] is a particularly complex human being, and a lot of the rap on him is true: There is a real, silly frat-boy side to him," he tells RS.
"The Bush people are really good at smashing things," Friedman continues. "If you've got a wrecking job, they are your guys. They're cold. They're calculating, and they have the potential to be cruel."
The RS excerpts, reported Tuesday in the Washington Post's "Reliable Source" column, reveal the Timesman as something of a left-wing conspiracy nut:
"I think these guys [in the White House] are bought and paid by Big Oil in America, and they are going to do nothing that will in any way go against the demands and interests of the big oil companies."
The Times ace continues:
"I mean, let's face it. Exxon, Mobil - I think this is a real group of bad guys, considering that they have funded all the anti-global-warming propaganda out there in the world. And Bush is just not gonna go against guys like that. They are bad, bad guys. I mean, Bush's ranch is going to look like a moonscape in ten years if these trends continue."
Friedman didn't comment on the left's wacko October Surprise charges of a couple of decades ago, that had Bush 41 flying an SR-71 spyplane to Paris to arrange a deal with the Ayatollah Khomeini to keep the Iran hostage crisis going until after Ronald Reagan was elected.
But perhaps the vaunted Timesman will offer his analysis of those nutball charges in his next interview. |
