"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Tom Friedman: Liar or Actor?
Charles Davis: The true nature of this "Friedman" character aside, the latest column bearing his name embodies all the imperial arrogance one can only get from, well, basically every pundit ever on television (more than once), taking the leaders of Turkey and Brazil to task for the "ugly" and "shameful" crime of practicing diplomacy with that "Holocaust-denying, vote-stealing Iranian thug" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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