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[David Morris]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:40 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> growing up in post-Vietnam era its hard to stomach this crap about the hope for America--that's led us right down the republican asshole of reagan and bush

OK, but we've escaped that legacy, though not with as much vehemence
as many of us would wish...

But, really, this has nothing to do with Bellow's having been inspired
by the Columbia Exposition as "hope for America."  I mean, do you
really want

>Friedman of the Times flies in for a few days, talks to a few people and bam he's home writing articles like he knows the place inside and out

Friedman is a confirmed (albeit polite - in contrast to most of
today's) asshole(s).  Everything he writes is really about him and the
way he wishes the world was.  Have you heard of a thing called the
"Friedman Unit?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_(unit)

The term is in reference to a May 16, 2006 article by Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) detailing journalist Thomas Friedman's
repeated use[10] of "the next six months" as the period in which,
according to Friedman, "we're going to find out...whether a decent
outcome is possible" in the Iraq War. As documented by FAIR, Friedman
had been making such six-month predictions for a period of two and a
half years, on at least fourteen different occasions, starting with a
column in the November 30, 2003 edition of The New York Times, in
which he stated: "The next six months in Iraq—which will determine the
prospects for democracy-building there—are the most important six
months in U.S. foreign policy in a long, long time."[11]