Friedman’s Credibility Gulf (National Review, 06.14.10)

Posted by hpayne on June 14, 2010

A reeling President Obama and his media allies are trying to turn the damage of the Gulf spill to their advantage. The spill is a cry from Mother Earth, they say, that we end our “addiction to oil” and pass cap-and-trade.


The New York Times’s Tom Friedman does his bit in his Sunday column, “This Time Is Different,” and it is a marvelous piece of self-parody from the Greendaddy of green columnists.


“We have met the enemy and he is us,” writes Friedman. We?


Friedman is a rich journalist who makes his living jetting around the globe on carbon-burning airplanes researching, hawking books, and speaking to rotary clubs. When he’s not guzzling jet fuel, he’s driving home in his Prius to his 11,000 square-foot Maryland home. . .

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