The Left is fully dedicated internationally and nationally to the idea that they would rather have bad things happen to the globe than allow their political opponents to ever achieve a victory.
Here’s an example: It looks right now as though Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, may be able to cut a deal with the Saudis to normalize relations between the two countries. This would be an earth-shattering move. It would be amazing for the Middle East. You&#8217;re talking about one of the most powerful countries in the region moving in tandem with the most powerful military country in the region — one Muslim, one Jewish.
That would be amazing — like the Abraham Accords but multiplied a hundredfold. Saudi Arabia has every interest in signing on because they need economic growth to modernize their technology and their military. And they can work with Israel in order to do that, because Israel has a very, very modern military. 
Here’s where the rubber meets the road: Neither side cares one bit about terrorist organizations like the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and what they would think of such a deal.
You know who does care about that? The leftist writer Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. Friedman really hates Netanyahu. He despises him.
Friedman wrote <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/opinion/biden-middle-east-deal.html">a column in the New York Times</a> saying you can&#8217;t normalize relations with a government that isn&#8217;t normal, meaning Netanyahu’s right-wing government. So Friedman’s encouraging the Saudis not to make peace with Israel because he doesn&#8217;t like Netanyahu. 
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You have the Biden administration, run by a man who’s not sentient. You have the Saudi government, which is a dictatorship. And lastly, you have an elected government in Israel that&#8217;s been in place for roughly six months with a prime minister who&#8217;s been prime minister several times before.
But according to Friedman, the “not normal” government is the Israeli government? 
He writes, “The more I learn about the complex peace and security deal that the Biden team is trying to put together between the United States, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinians, the more I’m convinced that if they pull it off, they’ll win both the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Physics. Because finding a way to balance the different interests of all four of these parties makes quantum mechanics look as easy as tic-tac-toe.”
Here&#8217;s the truth: The Palestinian interests are of very little consequence to anyone because they have routinely undermined every peace agreement ever offered. The Palestinian leadership has been a terrorist leadership since Oslo and beyond. Mahmoud Abbas, the current leader of the Palestinian Authority (that&#8217;s the “moderate” group over there) gave a speech the other day saying that the Germans murdered the Jews in the Holocaust because the Jews were usurious, because they charged interest.
That’s who Israel is supposed to be handing concessions to? 
Friedman says, “Given the many permutations this deal could take, let me just focus here on the only one that is in America’s interest and that I would support. It’s a deal that would normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, forge a deeper security relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and concretely advance a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.”
Here’s news for Friedman: Who cares what you think? 
Friedman states, “I want to appeal directly to President Biden and the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman: Do not let Netanyahu make you his useful idiots.”
The only idiot here is Thomas Friedman. He is perceived as a foreign policy expert, which is absurd. His entire foreign policy expertise consists of going to foreign countries and being wined and dined by dictatorial regimes and talking to taxi drivers. What a garbage heap he is. 
Political polarization is one hell of a drag. 
If you hate someone enough, you&#8217;d rather watch the countries involved fail, even though it would make the world a much better place to allow that person to succeed.
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New York Times columnist Tom Friedman told CNN during an interview on Monday night that while communist China does some bad things, such as locking up religious minorities in concentration camps, at least they don&#8217;t have to put up with the Republican Party and fringe conspiracy theories.
Friedman made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Cuomo Prime Time&#8221; with host Chris Cuomo in a segment that was primarily focused on the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;But you know what I&#8217;ve been thinking about Chris, as I was listening to your show, the lead in here?&#8221; Friedman said. &#8220;I was thinking like, what are they doing in China today? You know, Chris, do you know that it takes four hours and 18 minutes to take the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, and it takes 21 hours to take the train from New York to Chicago. And they&#8217;re both about the same distance.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you something they weren&#8217;t thinking about in China this week,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They weren&#8217;t thinking about some knucklehead. They weren&#8217;t spending the week thinking about a knucklehead who claimed 911 didn&#8217;t happen. They weren&#8217;t thinking about some guy who&#8217;s a QAnon shaman? I don&#8217;t know, they were probably thinking about some bad stuff with the Uyghurs and all of that, oh for sure, but I guarantee you, they weren&#8217;t wasting their time on this nonsense.&#8221;
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New York Times columnist <a href="https://twitter.com/tomfriedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@tomfriedman</a> compliments China on their fast trains in spite of the &quot;bad stuff with the Uyghurs&quot; and says that America is a &quot;deeply unserious&quot; country <a href="https://t.co/UBeVibkpuK">pic.twitter.com/UBeVibkpuK</a>
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<blockquote>TOM FRIEDMAN, NYT COLUMNIST: But you know what I&#8217;ve been thinking about Chris, as I was listening to your show, the lead in here? I was thinking like, what are they doing in China today? You know, Chris, do you know that it takes four hours and 18 minutes to take the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, and it takes 21 hours to take the train from New York to Chicago. And they&#8217;re both about the same distance. I can&#8217;t I&#8217;ll tell you something they weren&#8217;t thinking about in China this week. They weren&#8217;t thinking about some knucklehead. They weren&#8217;t spending the week thinking about a knucklehead who claimed 911 didn&#8217;t happen. They weren&#8217;t thinking about some guy who&#8217;s a QAnon shaman? I don&#8217;t know, they were probably thinking about some bad stuff with the Uyghurs and all of that, oh for sure, but I guarantee you, they weren&#8217;t wasting their time on this nonsense. And how do we do this week after week, month after month, and think we are a serious country? We are so deeply unserious as a country right now. And we need to put this crap behind us, okay, and get focused on the future. Because right now, we are going to be falling farther and farther behind. And that&#8217;s what&#8217;s really on my mind. And that&#8217;s why I am praying for Joe Biden, because I think he&#8217;s a serious guy. He&#8217;s trying to do the right thing. And I think he is cursed by a Republican Party that is chasing a madman who actually encourage people to sack our Capitol, you have to stop and repeat that. They sacked our capital on the basis of a big lie. And now a Republican majority is going to sit on their hands and be just fine with that. Shame on them. Shame, shame, shame on them.</blockquote>

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New York Times Columnist Tom Friedman On China: At Least They Don’t Have Republicans, QAnon

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We can all agree that grabbing the rear end of someone you are not in a relationship with and who doesn&#8217;t like that is wrong. But we must also consider the severity of accusations and what responses are appropriate.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, former head of the CDC under President Barack Obama, allegedly squeezed the posterior of a 55-year-old female friend whom he had known for 30 years while she was leaving an event at his apartment in Brooklyn Heights back in October 2017. By the woman&#8217;s own account, Frieden did this while their spouses weren&#8217;t looking <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/nyregion/thomas-frieden-arrest-cdc.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share">and apologized later</a>, blaming the alleged incident on personal problems. Yet nearly six months later, the woman &#8212; described by The New York Times as &#8220;a vocal #MeToo activist&#8221; prior to the incident &#8212; decided to write an article about how she was no longer merely an activist but now a &#8220;victim.&#8221;
She didn&#8217;t name her &#8220;abuser,&#8221; as the Times described Frieden, but three months after she wrote her article, she went to police and told them about the butt-grabbing nine months earlier.
Frieden was arrested and charged with &#8220;forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse and harassment,&#8221; according to the Times. He was released without bail but ordered to surrender his passport and to not contact the woman, whom the Times won&#8217;t name because it &#8220;does not name victims of sex crimes without their consent.&#8221;
Frieden has pleaded not guilty to the accusation.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Christina Hoff Sommers took to Twitter to denounce the arrest, asking if the proper response was &#8220;to tell him to buzz off&#8221; instead of calling the cops a year after the alleged incident.
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What? Former Head of C.D.C. arrested for allegedly grabbing behind of longtime female friend at family party&#8212;a year ago. Isn&#8217;t proper response to tell him to buzz off. Call cops&#8212;a year later? And he gets arrested? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SexPanic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SexPanic</a> <a href="https://t.co/PNxevBmjFi">https://t.co/PNxevBmjFi</a>
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In <a href="%3cblockquote%20class=%22twitter-tweet%22%20data-lang=%22en%22%3e%3cp%20lang=%22en%22%20dir=%22ltr%22%3eWhat?%20Former%20Head%20of%20C.D.C.%20arrested%20for%20allegedly%20grabbing%20behind%20of%20longtime%20female%20friend%20at%20family%20party&#8212;a%20year%20ago.%20Isn&#8217;t%20proper%20response%20to%20tell%20him%20to%20buzz%20off.%20Call%20cops&#8212;a%20year%20later?%20And%20he%20gets%20arrested?%20%3ca%20href=%22https://twitter.com/hashtag/SexPanic?src=hash&amp;amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%22%3e#SexPanic&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/PNxevBmjFi&quot;&gt;https://t.co/PNxevBmjFi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1033187543825625089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;August 25, 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src=&quot;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;">a follow-up tweet</a>, Sommers wondered if &#8220;any woman [can] accuse any guy she happens not to like of grabbing her a** at a party last year &#8211; get him arrested, publicly shamed and ruined?&#8221;
Headline updated to reflect the fact that Frieden has merely been accused, not convicted.

Former Head Of CDC ARRESTED For Allegedly Grabbing Woman’s Butt A Year Ago

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Appearing on CNN with Anderson Cooper, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has spent his career attacking the Israeli right wing, astonishingly ripped into Hamas for the violence along the Israeli-Gaza border and the Palestinians who were killed, saying Hamas had committed &#8220;an act of human sacrifice.&#8221;
Cooper precipitated Friedman&#8217;s response by assuming Friedman would buy into the media&#8217;s false narrative of the correlation between the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem and the Hamas riots, ignoring that Hamas had been rioting every week for weeks: &#8220;Tom, it was striking yesterday to watch members of the Trump Administration celebrating the unveiling of the new embassy and at the same time Palestinians were being killed on the Israeli-Gaza border.&#8221;
Shockingly, Friedman ignored Cooper&#8217;s attempt and targeted Hamas instead, saying:
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You know, the whole thing, Anderson, is just like diplomatic pornography from beginning to end. Let&#8217;s start with Hamas and Gaza. I mean, it was an act of human sacrifice. I&#8217;m sorry, when you throw thousands of your youth, the flower of your youth against an Israeli fence, supposedly to get into Israel, some of them surrounded by armed Hamas fighters, it was inevitable that a lot of people were gonna get killed. Israel was not going to open the border to them and Hamas knew that, and this was entirely designed by Hamas to distract the attention of the world, not to mention the Middle East.
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Cooper commented, &#8220;And Hamas controls what happens in Gaza.&#8221;
Friedman answered, &#8220;Absolutely. They&#8217;re totally in control. And this is their answer to failed leadership, to turn Gaza into some kind of decent flourishing state, which they could have done. They had the choice to do that before all these blockades began and they chose not to. They have a lot to answer for.&#8221;
But Friedman couldn&#8217;t help himself, positing that Hamas was the &#8220;bad Palestinian leadership&#8221; while the Palestinian Authority (which pays the families of terrorists who murder Israelis), is the &#8220;good Palestinian leadership&#8221;:
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On the other side, I don&#8217;t begrudge the Israelis defending themselves against people charging their border&#8230; but at the same time you have to ask Israelis: Hamas is the &#8220;bad Palestinian leadership,&#8221; what have you been doing with the &#8220;good Palestinian leadership&#8221; in the West Bank. Mahmoud Abbas? Where is the Israeli peace initiative there? Where is the Israeli imaginative, creative solution? What is Bibi&#8217;s peace plan? Neither Hamas nor Bibi have a peace plan on the table right now.
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Yet Friedman is the same guy who<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/04/tom-friedman-admits-no-idea-if-palestinians-are-peace-partners/"> said in 2014</a> that he had &#8220;no idea whether Israel has a Palestinian partner for a secure peace,&#8221; insisting that &#8220;given Israel&#8217;s predicament, it should be doing everything it can to test, test, test, and test again, whether it has such a Palestinian partner &#8230;&#8221;
Friedman has been railing against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for years; he has denounced the concept of Israel&#8217;s presence in Judea and Samaria (the so-called &#8220;West Bank&#8221;), <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/30/opinion/dead-man-walking.html">calling</a> Israeli settlements a &#8220;cancer for the Jewish people.&#8221;
After President Trump announced last December that he was going to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Friedman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssTZuFWNKSc">slammed the decision</a>, saying the United States should have demanded concessions from Netanyahu before committing to the move.
Still, his rhetoric regarding Hamas was spot-on.

SHOCKER: Even Leftist Thomas Friedman Rips Hamas, Says They Committed ‘An Act Of Human Sacrifice’

The New York Times&#8217; Thomas Friedman called for immigration policy to prioritize &#8220;high-IQ risk takers&#8221; during a Tuesday appearance on CNBC&#8217;s Squawk Box.
Friedman was asked by CNBC&#8217;s Andrew Sorkin to comment on President Donald Trump&#8217;s rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy of the Obama administration.
Partial transcript below. Freidman stated:
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I go back to the original immigration compromise; the Group of Eight. We need a strategic immigration policy. By the way, I&#8217;d happily give Trump his wall. My view on immigration; I&#8217;m for a very high wall. I believe a country has to control its borders. I&#8217;m for a high wall with a big gate.
So assure Americans that you can control the border, and then have a rational immigration policy that can attract the high-IQ risk takers that have made this country &#8212; and Silicon Valley, in particular &#8212; what it is, and also the high-energy lower-skilled workers, and do it in a rational way.
We need a compromise.
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Watch Friedman&#8217;s comments below.
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Friedman did not comment on cultural or political criteria to be implemented in screening prospective immigrants seeking residency in America.
Neither Friedman nor Sorkin commented on disproportionate outcomes between varying demographic groups that would result from using IQ as a screening criteria within immigration policy.

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On Sunday&#8217;s Meet the Press, Chuck Todd <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-03-05-17-n729271">hosted</a> a panel featuring The Wall Street Journal&#8216;s Kimberly Strassel, The New York Times&#8216;s Thomas Friedman, the American Enterprise Institute&#8217;s Daniella Pletka, and Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher to discuss Russia, Jeff Sessions, and President Trump&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14101/towergate-trump-accuses-obama-wiretapping-him-ben-shapiro">comments</a> regarding Obama.
During the panel, Pletka and Strassel kept pushing back against the media and the Democrats&#8217; weak case about Russian influence in the election as well as Russian influence within the Trump camp. Here&#8217;s part of the transcript of the conversation:
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DANIELLE PLETKA:

It&#8217;s not just the Russians who want to interfere in our election. Lots of countries want to interfere in our elections. Lots of countries have historically tried. Remember the Chinese and Al Gore? Right. That&#8217;s not the point. The point is, was there somebody inside the Trump campaign who was working with them, and did the president know about that? And were they successful? And I think on those latter two questions, we have no idea.
KIMBERLEY STRASSEL:
No evidence. There&#8217;s no evidence. I mean this is&#8211; I just heard Chuck Schumer suggest exactly what you, that we know that this is the case. Look, there&#8217;s nothing there. Especially this recent discussion about Jeff Sessions, which is the kind of height of the ludicrousness of this, okay?
If Jeff Sessions really was a mole working for the Russian government, he probably would have found a better place to have met within than his public Senate office surrounded by his aides. So the meetings are not necessarily what matter. They don&#8217;t prove anything. The question is&#8211;
CHUCK TODD:
But the one thing, Kim, I will say&#8211;
KIMBERLEY STRASSEL:
&#8211;is there any substance?
CHUCK TODD:
&#8211;this on these meetings is&#8211;
KIMBERLEY STRASSEL:
Is there any substance?
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While Todd and Belcher kept trying to push the seemingly baseless narrative, Thomas Friedman chimed into the conversation, admitting that there is no evidence of such collusion between the Russians and the Trump camp. Nevertheless, that did not stop Friedman from calling for a special prosecutor or an independent commission from looking into the matter despite the lack of credible proof. He also brought up Trump&#8217;s tax returns, which happens to be Senator Chris Murphy&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13513/moron-alert-senator-chris-murphy-insinuates-flynn-elliott-hamilton">favorite chew toy</a>.
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THOMAS FRIEDMAN:
I agree, there is no evidence, which is why we need a special prosecutor or an independent commission to get to the bottom of it.
CORNELL BELCHER:
Well&#8211;
THOMAS FRIEDMAN:
And we need to see Trump&#8217;s tax returns.
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Even though Attorney General Sessions made the correct call in <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14046/trump-stands-sessions-total-confidence-james-barrett">recusing himself</a> from any investigation into the Trump campaign, that does not negate the fact that a special prosecutor or an independent commission will only be necessary when a fact-finder finds credible evidence of collusion. However, Friedman moronically believes that the Department of Justice or another independent body should waste precious time, money, and effort on an investigation based off circumstantial proof in the hope of promulgating a shoddy leftist agenda.
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&#8220;I agree, there is no evidence, which is why we need a special prosecutor or an independent commission to get to the bottom of it.&#8221;
Thomas Friedman
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Then again, what else should we expect from a man who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html">believed</a> China&#8217;s one-party autocratic and dictatorial government was &#8220;led by a reasonably enlightened group of people&#8221; that &#8220;impose[s] the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward in the 21st century&#8221;?
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NYT’s Friedman: No Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion, So We Need An Investigation!

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On Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro appeared on Fox&#8217;s The First 100 Days with host Martha McCallum and radio host Richard Fowler to discuss the media&#8217;s overwrought response to the resignation of Lt. General Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor. Shapiro slammed the media for their hysteria, asserting, &#8220;Guys, if you want people to take you seriously, you have to stop setting your hair on fire and running into plate glass windows before you even know what the hell is going on.&#8221;
McCallum began by outlining the histrionics of the media, noting Thomas Friedman of The New York Times venting, &#8220;We were attacked on Dec.7, 1941, we were attacked on September 11, 2001, and we were attacked on November 8, 2016,&#8221; as well as former CBS anchor Dan Rather blustering, &#8220;Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now,&#8221; and Chuck Todd of NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press bloviating, &#8220; . . . one of what is arguably the biggest presidential scandal involving a foreign government since Iran-Contra. Take a breath; hyperbole aside, folks, hunker down, &#8216;cause this is a class five political hurricane that&#8217;s hitting Washington.&#8221;
McCallum asked Shapiro, &#8220;Ben, what do you make of all that?&#8221;
Shapiro replied:
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Everybody sounds like a used car salesman trying to hawk an old Chevy. Wow. The level of outrage over something that, we don&#8217;t even know what happened yet; I&#8217;m still confused as to what Flynn did that was supposed to be the worst thing that ever happened since the Biblical plagues; and between Thomas Friedman, who apparently has the brain power of an overused hair dryer and Dan Rather, the godfather of modern media &#8220;fake news, talking about how this is the greatest crisis that we&#8217;ve ever seen in modern political history; again, what happened? Should we know what happened before we start to freak out and lose our minds?
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McCallum turned to Fowler, pointing out that The New York Times admitted they had no evidence linking President Trump to a nefarious connection with Russia. Fowler replied that the Trump Administration had &#8220;circled the wagons, and they haven&#8217;t released any information.&#8221; He then gave advice to &#8220;the Donald&#8221;: release the transcripts of Flynn&#8217;s conversations to the intelligence committee and &#8220;get it over with so you could move on.&#8221; He added that Trump would need political capital for his future plans.
McCallum noted that the Flynn story really broke one month ago, then reminded the audience of Barack Obama&#8217;s infamous promise to Russian President Medvedev in 2012 that after the election he would have &#8220;more flexibility.&#8221; She asked Shapiro if Flynn might have made a similar promise to the Russian ambassador.
Shapiro replied: &#8220;I think that&#8217;s basically the idea; the only difference is President Obama was in the middle of an election cycle and Flynn apparently said a lot of these things after the election cycle was over. It was like three weeks before he was appointed NSA.&#8221;
Then he hit the media again:
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Richard, you&#8217;re giving a lot of advice to Donald Trump, and I agree with a lot of the advice that you&#8217;re suggesting for the Trump Administration but some advice for the media: &#8220;Guys, if you want people to take you seriously, you have to stop setting your hair on fire and running into plate glass windows before you even know what the hell is going on. You are jumping on every rake in a 300-nile radius before you eve let all the facts out. We can&#8217;t take you seriously unless you lay out a series of facts that we can believe, instead of blowing up &#8230; The headline on that New York Times piece could easily have been, &#8220;Investigation Shows No Causal Links Between Trump Campaign and Russians,&#8221; and instead the headline was, &#8220;Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence.&#8221;
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Shapiro Blasts Media On Fox: ‘Stop Setting Your Hair On Fire And Running Into Plate Glass Windows Before You Even Know What The Hell Is Going On’

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Appearing on Morning Joe with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/14/friedman_flynn_resignation_shows_russia_hacking_was_on_scale_with_911_pearl_harbor.html">hyperventilated</a> that the supposed hacking of the 2016 election by Russia was a &#8220;9/11 scale event,&#8221; a &#8220;Pearl Harbor scale event.&#8221;
The conversation revolved around the resignation of Ret. Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn as National Security Adviser after the revelation he had likely spoken to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions Barack Obama imposed on Russia in late December and given possibly false information to Vice-President Pence about the conversation. The White House had been warned Flynn might be a target of blackmail by the Russians roughly a month before his resignation.
Scarborough asked, &#8220;Is it credible that there&#8217;s any way this president could not have known about this, the conversation that White House had been warned about it a month ago?
Friedman answered, &#8220;Well, this is a question I&#8217;ve been asking since I&#8217;ve been reading the stories yesterday, Joe. I share Mika&#8217;s real outrage on this issue; I don&#8217;t care what he told Pence. We only care what he told Pence because Pence went out and basically misled the public on Face the Nation.&#8221;
He continued:
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The issue is what did he tell Trump? Did he and Trump actually cook up this whole thing after the Russians did not respond harshly to the eviction of their spies and diplomats? Trump actually tweeted out some positive encouragement of this. Did the two of them cook this up all along? And it gets, Joe, to two other issues. The first is we have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election. That was a 9/11 scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor scale event. Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton were where Trump was, what the right would be doing on this issue? This goes to the very core of our democracy.
The second point . . . my philosopher friend, Dov Seidman, likes to make the distinction between formal authority and moral authority. Trump has formal authority. In fact, that Steven Miller guy kept telling us and Kellyanne Conway keeps telling us, &#8220;We won. Get over it.&#8221; But Trump has no moral authority; he has squandered his moral authority by repeatedly lying and his people repeatedly lying on issues of fact that we know about. Why is that important? Because there&#8217;s gonna be a point in the next few weeks or months, whether it&#8217;s on an issue like North Korea or whatever where Donald Trump is gonna have to make a very hard call on the basis of intelligence. It may go bad; it may not go bad, but he&#8217;s gonna have to look the American people in the eye and say, &#8220;Trust me.&#8221; And the fact that he has formal authority and no moral authority is gonna be a real problem for him. All this lying is going to add up.
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Friedman, of course, never questioned former president Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;moral; authority,&#8221; despite his Administration&#8217;s repeated lies o the American people, whether it revolved around his <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435275/watch-obamas-speechwriters-laugh-if-you-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-lie">promises</a> on ObamaCare, the administration&#8217;s lies about Benghazi, (about which he<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2012/11/19/nyts-tom-friedman-proclaims-libya-not-scandal"> said</a>, &#8220;To me, this is an utterly contrived story in the sense that &#8216;this is the end of,&#8217; you know, &#8216;Obama&#8217;s foreign policy,&#8217;&#8221;) the <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/12/rhodes-to-ruin/">lies about the Iran nuclear deal</a>, the <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430153/fast-furious-obama-first-scandal">stonewalling</a> in the fast and Furious affair, the <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-investigation-documents-irs-scandal/">IRS scandal</a>, any of it.

New York Times Columnist: Russian Hacking Was Like 9/11

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who fancies himself a man of peace, penned some <a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/opinion/who-are-we.html?_r=0&amp;referer=https://t.co/Q8R9jnKwJ4">savage words</a> for two conservatives on Tuesday: Senator Ted Cruz and super-lobbyist Grover Norquist.
First Friedman wrote of his hopes that Norquist would drown: &#8220;Ted Cruz speaks of our government in the same way as the anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist, who says we should shrink government &#8220;to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.&#8221; (Am I a bad person if I hope that when Norquist slips in that bathtub and has to call 911, no one answers?)
Friedman wished Norquist dead, and then the Man of Peace dripped with more vitriol, saying of Cruz, &#8220;Ted Cruz does not have a good soul. He brims with hate, and his trashing of Washington, D.C., is despicable &#8230; Cruz wraps himself in an American flag and spits on all the institutions that it represents.&#8221;
Ah. In order to have a good soul, you must believe in big government.
For Friedman to play God, condemning political opponents to death or pontificating that they have no soul should not be surprising; Friedman&#8217;s narcissism rivals Barack Obama&#8217;s.
As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2003/05/14/thomas_l_friedman/page/full">wrote</a> in 2003:
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In February 2002, Friedman traveled to Saudi Arabia, where he played journalistic footsy with the Saudi royal family. Since the world revolves around him, Friedman decided that he would propose his Middle East peace plan to Crown Prince Abdullah. The plan involved an Israeli move to pre-1967 borders and acceptance of the phantom Palestinian &#8220;right of return&#8221; &#8212; in short, Israeli suicide. Oh-so-shockingly, Crown Prince Abdullah asked Friedman: &#8220;Have you broken into my desk?&#8221; Delighted that he had discovered the solution to Middle East peace, Friedman played the part of Saudi mouthpiece, breathlessly praising Abdullah as &#8220;the staunchest Arab nationalist among Saudi leaders, and the one most untainted by corruption.&#8221; 
In June 2002, Friedman visited Iran, where he proclaimed: &#8220;The most striking thing about Iran today is the honesty you can find in the newspapers. Some mornings, they take your breath away.&#8221; The Iranian government, one of the most restrictive in the world, shut down at least 90 newspapers between April 2000 and January 2003.
Shapiro concluded of Friedman, &#8220;He wholeheartedly believes that he is infallible. His vision is clouded by his own inflated view of himself. Thomas Friedman is a sucker, made to order.&#8221;
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NYT Columnist Friedman Wishes Grover Norquist Would Just Drown Already

Grover Norquist

Ted Cruz

Thomas Friedman, the left&#8217;s Most Useful Idiot, is <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum">bloviating again</a>, this time attacking GOP presidential candidates who choose to differ with global warming zealots. Writing in The New York Times, Friedman opines that now that China and India have pronounced themselves willing to do the bidding of global warming fanatics and curb their carbon emissions, only the GOP &#8220;knuckleheads running to be our next president&#8221; ignore the catastrophic effects soon to envelop the planet.
Why, smirks Friedman, even Ronald Reagan&#8217;s secretary of state George Shultz, who owns an an electric car powered by solar panels on his home&#8217;s roof, of course, admitted Reagan &#8220;urged industry to proactively address ozone depletion.&#8221; Friedman sneers at Senator Marco Rubio&#8217;s statement, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to destroy our economy the way the left-wing government that we are under now wants to do,&#8221; and Gov. Chris Christie&#8217;s rejoined to Shultz, &#8220;Listen, everybody makes a mistake every once in a while.&#8221;
Then Friedman tries to sell his fertilizer with facts culled from the global-warming handbook:
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1. &#8220;Hurricane Sandy &#8212; likely amplified by warmer ocean waters &#8212; caused over $36 billion in damage to Christie&#8217;s own state, New Jersey, in 2012.&#8221;
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Suuuure, According to the other bastion of American leftism, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/the-whole-truth-about-superstorm-sandy-and-climate-change/2012/11/15/d3b7ceea-29e4-11e2-bab2-eda299503684_blog.html">The Washington Post</a>, 
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While the human imprint on hurricanes is almost certainly more than zero, it would also be a stretch to say it&#8217;s anything more than small. According to a <a href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v3/n3/abs/ngeo779.html">consensus statement</a> from leading hurricane and climate change researchers published in 2010, scientists have been unable to definitively detect a human contribution in hurricane activity. NOAA hurricane and climate change researcher Tom Knutson &#8211; who contributed to the statement &#8211; put it this way:
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&#8220;Later will be too late. We elect a president who ignores this science at our peril.&#8221;
Thomas Friedman
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Try again, Tom.
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If you have time to read one book on this subject, I highly recommend the new &#8220;Big World, Small Planet,&#8221; by Johan Rockstrom, director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, and Mattias Klum, whose stunning photographs of ecosystem disruptions reinforce the urgency of the moment.
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Friedman quotes Rockstrom referring to the last 10,000 years of stable climate conditions as &#8220;our Eden,&#8221; adding, &#8220;we are threatening to push earth out of this sweet spot,&#8221; warning &#8220;climate change, chemical pollution, air pollution, land and water degradation &#8230; and the massive loss of species and habitats.&#8221;
An emotional argument, not one buttressed by any salient facts. More charges follow:
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We&#8217;re sitting on these planetary boundaries right now, argues Rockstrom, and if these systems flip from one stable state to another &#8212; if the Amazon tips into a savannah, if the Arctic loses its ice cover and instead of reflecting the sun&#8217;s rays starts absorbing them in water, if the glaciers all melt and cannot feed the rivers &#8212; nature will be fine, but we will not be.
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If, if, if.
And yet more unsupported statements:
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Forests show the first signs of absorbing less carbon. The oceans are rapidly acidifying as they absorb more CO2, harming fish and coral. Global average temperatures keep rising.
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But data compiled by NASA&#8217;s Langley Research Center in 2013 <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/040448_solar_radiation_global_warming_debunked.html#">showed</a> that atmospheric greenhouse gases actually cool the planet, as reported by Principia Scientific International (PSI). And there has been no global warming for at least the last <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/satellite-data-no-global-warming-past-18-years">18 years</a>, as Dr. John Christy, director of the University of Alabama/Huntsville&#8217;s Earth System Science Center, pointed out in 2014. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/12/04/fall-snow-cover-in-northern-hemisphere-was-most-extensive-on-record-even-with-temperatures-at-high-mark/">The Washington Post </a>allowed that more snow covered the Northern Hemisphere in the fall of 2014 than any time in the previous 46 years. And even NASA <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum">admitted</a> that sea ice surrounding Antarctica in 2014 reached a new record high.
Friedman quotes Rockstrom: &#8220;For the first time, we need to be clever and rise to a crisis before it happens,&#8221; then concludes loftily, &#8220;Later will be too late. We elect a president who ignores this science at our peril.&#8221;
As usual, with facts staring him in the face, Thomas Friedman prefers to pad his income by parroting the leftist party line.

Thomas Friedman Thinks You’re Stupid If Climate Change Isn’t Your Top Priority

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