{"id":187212,"date":"2013-05-12T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/12\/matt-taibbi-gets-owned-by-thomas-friedman\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T02:05:00","slug":"matt-taibbi-gets-owned-by-thomas-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/12\/matt-taibbi-gets-owned-by-thomas-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi Gets Owned by Thomas Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"

We live in a strange world.<\/p>\n

There are very few things that I depend on, but brilliantly crafted takedowns of Thomas “The Mustache of Stupidith” Friedman by Matt Taibbi is one of them.<\/p>\n

Recently, he held a reader to, “Come Up With the Ultimate Thomas Friedman Porn Title<\/a>, ” and notwithstanding some fine entries by his readers, Thomas Friedman won the contest with his recent column, “This Ain’t Yogurt<\/i><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

I can only conclude the Friedman was aware of Taibbi’s effort, and he took appropriate action:<\/p>\n

The winner, of course, is Thomas Friedman himself, whose very next column <\/i>after this contest was announced was entitled, “This Ain’t Yogurt<\/a>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Jesus F%$#ing Christ,” noted a friend, impressed. “This Ain<\/i>‘t Yogurt <\/i>is more obscene than anything a mere commentator could think of.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“He took your contest,” noted another “friend” of mine, “and shoved it right up your poop-chamber.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Friedman’s revenge,” chirped a reader.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Tom Friedman \u2013 human masterpiece machine,” commented a fourth. “Matt Taibbi, Suck On This.<\/i> Grab some bench, rook.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(%$# mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Tom Friedman, just this once, I take my hat off to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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