The Mustache of Understanding

Needs a good shave with Occam's razor. Followed by a public flogging. Followed by a meal of crow, with hat for dessert. Then his column should be outsourced to Thailand, and he should be relegated to sweeping up clippings at Jon's World.

The Blog | David Sirota: Tom Friedman Becomes America's Chief Revisionist Historian | The Huffington Post

Now, you might say, so what? So what if a pundit like Tom Friedman is lying? He's just a columnist, right? Wrong. Friedman is not any old pundit - he is an agenda-setter. He is someone the insulated political class in Washington - especially Democrats - bows down to, regardless of how self-serving, inane or dishonest his pronouncements are. You can bet that the political chattering class in Washington read this column of his, and nodded its head in agreement - regardless of the fact that it has no relations to actual facts. When you understand this, you understand how dangerous Friedman and the pundit class really is - and you suddenly realize why the opposition party still has no real position on Iraq, and why our government's policies are so totally misguided and out of step with mainstream public opinion.

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