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Grist for Bush's mill....

Friedman gets interviewed by Grist... why am I not surprised. .. The same right wing ideologue who a few short years ago ridiculed environmentalists as being wrapped up in a flat-earth mindset,  suddenly "gets religion" (after ridiculing European progressives and environmentalists in a recent program aired on PBS a month back) and is courting the "green vote" to once again cozy up cheek and jowl with the Bushistas once again.
Friedman is a racist, a big supporter of globalization, in a letter dated March 31, 1999, former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay recommended a Friedman article on globalization to his friend George Bush as "an excellent account of most of the basic issues."  he doesn't blush about profitting from poverty (then again, I'm sure the trustifarians who make up a portion of Grist's readership don't either.. ) Do you people ever research before making a value judgement?
The fact that some among you are buying it isn't so much a surprise... 2000 documented that no matter which extreme.. right or leftist, when it comes right down to it, there really isn't that much difference. Both dogmatic extremes share an overwhelmingly inflated sense of entitlement, a lack of commitment to the ethics they tend to wave around like banners, more than a tendency to border on the fascistic, a firm belief that the poorest among us should be sacrificed for political and economic profit.
So fall for Friedman's snare.. be grist for Bush's mill. Sell out the environment and progressiveism because you're so easily deluded and stroked.On An interview with New York Times columnist and "geo-green" advocate Thomas Friedman posted 4 years, 6 months ago 9 Responses