{"id":186551,"date":"2013-12-23T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/23\/because-its-always-a-good-time-to-lampoon-tom-friedman\/"},"modified":"2013-12-23T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:58:00","slug":"because-its-always-a-good-time-to-lampoon-tom-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/23\/because-its-always-a-good-time-to-lampoon-tom-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Because, It&#8217;s Always a Good Time to Lampoon Tom Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/tom-friedmans-yard-sale-122313\">always amusing Charlie Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Back a few years, David Halberstam was supposed to speak at my son&#8217;s graduation from Brandeis, but Halberstam died a car wreck shortly before the ceremony so, scrambling, Brandeis went to the alumni bullpen and called in&#8230;Tom Friedman. This was the worst strategic move since Darrell Johnson brought in Burton for Willoughby in Game 7 of the 1975 Series. I don&#8217;t remember what Friedman said, but it was pretty damned banal. I have considered asking for all four years tuition back ever since.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Pierce is good, Billmon wins the Internet today:<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"en\"><p>Friedman: &#8220;Reinventing the consignment shop on the web will save the U.S. economy. Also, PR pitches work with me.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/9Nq06LLVhs\">http:\/\/t.co\/9Nq06LLVhs<\/a><br \/>\u2014 billmon (@billmon1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billmon1\/statuses\/414836949904408576\">December 22, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of these days, I hope to be able to write well enough to lampoon Tom Friedman on my own \u2026\u2026\u2026 Then again, if I were to lambaste what he writes, I would actually have to <b>READ<\/b> what he writes.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&nbsp; I&#8217;m lucky just to quote people trashing him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have the always amusing Charlie Pierce: Back a few years, David Halberstam was supposed to speak at my son&#8217;s graduation from Brandeis, but Halberstam died a car wreck shortly before the ceremony so, scrambling, Brandeis went to the alumni bullpen and called in&#8230;Tom Friedman. This was the worst strategic move since Darrell Johnson &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1002,997,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-good-writing","category-internet","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}