{"id":2147,"date":"2008-09-16T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T02:31:53","slug":"captain-blowhard-blows-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/link-of-the-day\/09\/16\/captain-blowhard-blows-dick\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Blowhard Blows Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"

“[Thomas Friedman] is hailed as a foreign policy genius, and of course he was dead wrong on Iraq. He is hailed as a brilliant economist, and maybe he is, but his magical flat global future looks increasingly like the wet dream of a guilty rich liberal who doesn’t want to hear about inequality that can’t be solved by internet access. His most stunning insights are banal cliches, often attributed to cab drivers in exotic (developing) foreign locales.”<\/p>\n

From Gawker on Thomas Friedman Has Joke, Not Afraid to Use It<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[tags]thomas friedman, gawker, economy, US economy, american economy, iraq, foreign policy, economics, rich liberal, nytimes, new york times, idiot[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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