Ted Rall for June 13, 2011
June 10, 2011
June 15, 2011
Transcript:
The adventures of Tim Friedman, Boy Reporter. Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner. (Man: Mubarak is an egg: white and rotten and yolky.) Tom is intrepidly researching his next column at the four seasons in Istanbul. (Man: The world is flat but also warped. Here I come, NYT bestsellers list!) Suddenly: inspiration strikes! (Man: Your luggage is heavy" my redcap in Times told me. Which got me thinking: my luggage is like a peace process it's hard to carry but you need it to get where you are going!) At the Beirut airport gift shop: (WOT? Why isn't this made in the USA? Or lebanon?) 30 minutes later, yet another gem of op/ed gold is in the can. (That T-shirt should've been made in Lebanon. Why wasn't it? Well? Huh?!) But then- (Pack your bags, Tom- your book "The middle east is flat: Chats with tourist industry personnel" is #1 again!
Melikey almost 13 years ago
nyuk nyuk nyuk
mjnyc almost 13 years ago
I have no idea what Mr. Rall is trying to say here other than to deride Friedman in some mysterious way. I suspect most readers of this don’t know who Tom Friedman is anyway.
Kvasir42 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
As Teresa would say, feel the love.
rockngolfer almost 13 years ago
I like Thomas Friedman. He is often on PBS.
Motivemagus almost 13 years ago
Friedman wrote The World Is Flat, a book talking about globalization which is relentlessly positive about the “flattening” of the globe and shrinking of boundaries, without regard to the consequences on many of the actual human beings involved. I think Mr. Rall is making a point about the level of research, which is at least dramatically one-sided, if not actively bad as suggested by this cartoon.
Anarcissie almost 13 years ago
Whiner is a non-story. Although at least we do know where the beef is.
Yammo Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Tom Friedman is a ignorant douche who thinks the world of himself. Realists in the US, as well as in Israel, are sick of him
mattro65 almost 13 years ago
LOL!! And that was just at the title, before I read the rest of the strip. Ted, you’re a genius.
SABRSteve almost 13 years ago
Rall’s purpose in life is to demean everything and everyone.
Josephus79 almost 13 years ago
Friedman: poor self-loathing Jewish scrivener.
henrydubb almost 13 years ago
Will this be a regular strip. Got the boy reporter pegged.