It's all Your Fault
George Savage ·
June 14, 2010 at 12:50am
Blaming Bush is running out of steam as the motive force of our electoral politics at the same time President Obama is dropping the ball on the Gulf oil spill, so Thomas Friedman feels compelled to blame, well, you.
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May '10
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So... by following Friedman's (and his buddy from the Pentagon) reasoning the oil spill is the fault of big time oil consumers. Which means, hey! It is actually Obama's fault. Our Pres. and his posse consume a lot more oil than I could even dream about.
May '10
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Sometimes I wonder how many liberal commentators keep their jobs because conservatives promote their articles as objects to laugh or sneer at. Just a general observation.
Jun '10
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Just to be clear...
Mr. Friedman is writing that column at a desk in his 11,400 sq'ft house (read: large petroleum-based, carbon spewing footprint) while being the husband of a woman who's family fortune ($2.7 Billion) was made from real estate development and shopping malls (read: sprawl).
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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Jay Perrotta: Just to be clear...
Mr. Friedman is writing that column at a desk in his 11,400 sq'ft house (read: large petroleum-based, carbon spewing footprint) while being the husband of a woman who's family fortune ($2.7 Billion) was made from real estate development and shopping malls (read: sprawl).
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson" · Jun 13 at 4:49pm
So while Mr. Friedman enjoys his mansion and the oil flows unabated, Mr. Obama is doing what he does best -- making demands:
Any guesses as to who will soon be in charge of allocating BP's money?
May '10
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If you were wondering whether Friedman is often spotted being chauffeured around in a Towncar in Washington, DC -- despite the fact that there's a Metro stop with plenty of nearby parking in Bethesda, where he lives -- the answer is yes, he is.
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George, Jay -- I mentioned this briefly in the podcast, but since you bring it up: I think there's something to this idea, that the left (and elite NYTimes op-ed writers -- but I repeat myself) secretly like this oil spill. It's as if Obama and Friedman and the rest of them think, well, we deserve this. You deserve this. Because of your Hummers and your A/C and your Big Gulps. Notice how un-dramatic it all is? No weeping celebrities. No telethons. It's because it's....our fault.
May '10
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Jay is right on the money... I'll start taking Duranty--uh, I mean Friedman--seriously just as soon as he gives up his dacha and NYT travel expense account.
May '10
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This reminds me of the comparisons between George Bush's carbon footprint and that of Inconvenient Truth Al Gore's.
May '10
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Unfortunately, none of this seems to have much effect on voters these days. The only Officially Recognized Hypocrisy is when a family values Republican steps out on his wife.
For the record, I remain outraged.
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As Freud would remind us, every anxiety craves its release. Just as fans of zombie movies secretly long for the zombie apocalypse, and some nutjobs would feel a massive rush of patriotic catharsis if the US were surprise attacked again, there are environmental catastrophists who thrill in spite of themselves to the prospect that the destruction of the earth will really start happening right before their eyes. They'll be proven so right, with such thunderous finality! All that pent-up fear and loathing will gush forth unimpeded, like eons of once-trapped underwater oil...
Pynchon put it best: "that attractive nuisance so dear to adolescent minds, the apocalyptic showdown."
May '10
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I should probably clarify that he lives in the snooty part of Bethesda.