{"id":294,"date":"2009-01-17T06:10:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T13:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-01-17T06:10:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T13:10:25","slug":"friends-dont-let-friends-read-friedman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/01\/17\/friends-dont-let-friends-read-friedman\/","title":{"rendered":"friends don&#8217;t let friends read Friedman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I read with much pleasure all of Matt Taibbi&#8217;s pitch perfect and brilliant critiques of Thomas Friedman&#8217;s books and several of his columns. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html\">His latest<\/a> may be the best of them all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My initial answer to that is that Friedman\u2019s language choices over the years have been highly revealing: When a man who thinks you need to break a vase to get the water out of it starts arguing that you need to invade a country in order to change the minds of its people, you might want to start paying attention to how his approach to the vase problem worked out.Thomas Friedman is not a president, a pope, a general on the field of battle or any other kind of man of action. He doesn\u2019t actually do anything apart from talk about shit in a newspaper. So in my mind it\u2019s highly relevant if his manner of speaking is fucked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, why did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2008\/11\/10\/081110fa_fact_parker\">the New Yorker piece<\/a> on Friedman neglect to mention that he married into General Growth Properties? Do they often write pure puff pieces and I&#8217;m too ignorant to know better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I read with much pleasure all of Matt Taibbi&#8217;s pitch perfect and brilliant critiques of Thomas Friedman&#8217;s books and several of his columns. His latest may be the best of them all: My initial answer to that is that Friedman\u2019s language choices over the years have been highly revealing: When a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}