ANTI-FRANCE ARGUMENT
DESCENDS INTO SELF-PARODY

As if France bashing wasn't stupid enough already. From good guy journalist Greg Palast's weblog:

How sad. The last remaining neurons of Thomas Friedman's shrinking brain were apparently lost in hot bubbling tub of deep fatuousness today.

The evidence is in Friedman's loony-tunes comment, "Our War with France," in this morning's Paper of Record. You can only conclude the man's mind has been French Fried.

What got Friedman's brain a-boilin' is the impertinent suggestion by French diplomats that, if the US invaded Iraq to bring democracy, then why not allow Iraqis to vote. Vote! Can you imagine! It's all that silly 'libertay, equalitay' stuff that unsophisticated Americans believed before the Patriot Act.

Friedman calls voting a, "loopy symbolic transfer of Iraqi sovereignty." Friedman, Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein all have the same line: Iraqis aren't ready for democracy. Well, I suppose Tom Paine would have disagreed -- but, hell, he moved to France.

For the entire Palast essay, click here. And be sure to read the above linked Thomas Friedman essay in the New York Times: it's good for a few ironic laughs. As Atrios said over at Eschaton, "It's time for the NYT to put this guy out to pasture."

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