re: #55 lawhawk

Friedman isn’t a tyrant, but his adulation of the Chinese government should be more than a little troubling. In fact, it made me retch. I can’t believe how far he’s fallen since he left the fieldwork to others to concentrate on his op-ed column. He’s now busy shilling that we’ve got a whole lot to learn from the Chinese (sounds a wee bit like Obama’s adulation of Chinese infrastructure - before the Sichuan quake showed the widespread failure of same, and don’t get me started on the environmental disaster that is China on a daily basis). That doesn’t even begin to touch on the blatant disregard for human rights and what they do to political prisoners.

At best, Friedman is merely a sycophantic apologist for a set of tyrants. Much like Duranty was.