It is sort of a sad irony that Tom Friedman's airy avowal that his editor's indulge his every whim no matter how expensive is just the sort of double standard that may drive the Boston Globe's unions to turn down the NYT's deal next week.
For the record, as of 7:45am this morning, Friedman is blissfully unrepentant, he thinks it is great that his editors let him fly off to Haifa at the drop of a hat while the city room at the Globe is fighting to hold onto their soda machine.
Again, there is a deadly double standard at play here, but just for a moment let us consider the larger issue...which is WHY is the New York Times continuing to enable such a fatuous, credulous old hack like Tom Friedman?
The earth once trembled when he shook his pom-poms on behalf of the Iraq Invasion...he faithfully believed every lie that Colin Powell and Dick Cheney told about Saddam's nuclear weapon's program, truly Tom Friedman is cursed with what H.L.Mencken once called a "believing mind".
And if said lies issue forth in tones oracular from the pie hole of some GOP macher, Tom's mouth falls open in sheer adoration. Truly if Gingrich ever grows a pair and announces for President, Friedman will no doubt follow him from town to town in New Hampshire like a cocker spaniel.
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