If you ever doubted that Tom Friedman is truly stupid and out of touch

Then read his May 6 editorial in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/opinion/06friedman.html

Friedman breathlessly wrote:

Here are the two most important things I learned from a recent book tour:

First, many educated people seem to be getting their news from Comedy Central. Say what? As any author will tell you, the best TV book shows to be on have long been Don Imus, Charlie Rose, C-Span, Tim Russert on CNBC, "Today," Oprah and selected programs on CNN, Fox and MSNBC. They are all still huge. But what was new for me on this tour was the number of people who also mentioned getting their news from Jon Stewart's truly funny news satire, "The Daily Show." And I am not just talking about college kids. I am talking about grandmas. Just how many people are now getting their only TV news from Comedy Central is not clear to me - but it is a lot, lot more than you think.

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This is so f*cking hilarious. In May 2005, Friedman discovered and reports to you that the Daily Show is HUGE, just HUGE! Remember, folks you read it here first, in Tom Friedman's flatland.

When did the MSM pick up on the importance of the Daily Show? A year ago? Two years ago? Sometime during the Democratic primaries, perhaps? Certainly by the time Jon Stewart called Tucker Carlson an "even bigger dick," that "news" must have seeped up by osmosis from the Arts & Leisure section to Friedman's Olympian post at the editorial page. Or was Friedman too busy formulating world economic and political policy by talking to Turkish cab drivers and Bombay computer nerds?

I mean, couldn't the more hip Mo Dowd have given Friedman a heads up?

to plug his book, go figure.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

how much it's valued compared to the corporate crap that's out there.

because he was so jetlagged from seeking out cabdrivers from around the world for expert political observations?

The fact that he wrote this after going on the show is mindboggling.

a comedian who owns the journalistic sandbox! Really puts it into perspective for the troll from the NYT: A satirical show about real news is more influential than your Sunday drivelfest which masquerades as news. :rofl:

Long live Jon Stweart!

on edit the u from masquerade went MIA!

Long answer is NO.

I think he is name-dropping "Jon Stewart" to associate himself with Jon's success in order to sell more of his pathetic little books.

Tommy Friedman is a little weenie.

as the host. Watched it religiously. And I knew that the Iraq War was a crock of shit well before it started. I must be some kind of freakin' genius! Taxi!

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How could any newspaper print his rubbish. A ten-year-old could provide a more sophisticated analysis of the nuke situation, today's rant.

Brussels Sprouts

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/opinion/11friedman.html?hp&oref=login