Should Tom Friedman's Sins Be Forgiven? Vote Now

The Tom Friedman poll is right below the fold:

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[TRex]

Did you know that Tom Friedman got robbed by his driver in Baghdad in 2004?

True story.

[Marvin Meadors]

Thomas Friedman is an idiot. For one who has lived in the Middle East, he should have know its complexities. He is most in love with the sound of his own voice, so he can probably take 50 sides on any issue, as long as he keeps talking.

[Ron Weinert]

Mr. Friedman is a typical "pundit." He is excellent at hindsight. He has been consistently wrong about Iraq, as was noted in the article, but he has yet to acknowledge his error and to seek atonement. He must apologize publicly in a NYT column. As of now, I discount all of what he writes, and deign from watching him if he appears on television. He is a comptetent writer, but his thinking is skewed toward supporting his policital theory of the moment.
I want an apology before I forgive and forget.

[Eric Vance]

Off hand I can't think of anyone more consistantly wrong about the middle east than Mr. Friedman. I once saw him on C-Span ranting about green men from Mars. This was at a public question and answer session about 2 or 3 years ago. A very strange man.

[John Gwazdosky]

He is just another Swift Boat pawn which keeps his pay check coming to him. He is a classic example of what is wrong with journalist. Good Journalist like Drew Pearson or Jack Anderson are not to be seen again. The Repuk's have destroyed all what our Country had once stood tall for.Just remember one lasting memory of which is that we now have seen what the Worst President in American history has done for us.

[Thorn Wolf]

Friedman needs to beg forgiveness. Friedman needs to atone for his sins.

[Dr.Teresa Canal Meyer]

I am pretty sure Tom Friedman drives a
prius which should buy him some forgiveness and you should have checked that before assuming he drove a lexus. Maybe we should check to see if we forgive you for not fact checking. :)

[Jason Collett]

Friedman should be made to spend the rest of his life in Baghdad, but not in the Green Zone and without any means of communication with the outside world - he's done enough damage already in this respect.

[Jason Collett]

I forgot to mention that all the other zionist neocons and their war criminal associates like Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Blair should likewise be forced to work in Iraq for the rest of their lives to repair in some small way the devastation they've caused.

[faye krause]

It is Oh so well that Mr. Friedman has had a change of heart, or is he trying to remain in the spotlight with a new, improved approach. It is good that he apologized, better, if he had not been a born-again McCarthy, and best if he leaves the driving to others.
Faye

[KENNETH HERBER]

Yes, it is true that Tom is not a pawn to be used by elites, rather a true free thinker and a real journalist.

[Ron G]

I'll vote yes....but I will only be impressed if Tom can approach the current 'conflict' with Iran rationally and convince us that he understands the limitations and folly of an interventionist policy and why we are considered the bully on the world block.

[Irwin Moss]

Mr Friedman should leave the NY Times, and try to work his way back, if that is possible, or the NY Times should ask for his resignation. He should leave the dance with the guy who brought him, President Bush. His word and/or analysis have proven worthless. He has outlived his usefulness.

Although you haven't asked, I would say the same for the likes of William Kristol, not as to the propaganda sheet he writes for, but for all television talk shows. He was/is so wrong his word is worth less than Mr. Friedman's.

News analysis may/should be subject to the market place as with other competitors. Losers fade, winner rise to the top.

[pmfredi]

Being stupified and now mortified does not suddenly make one qualified.

[Ames Gilbert]

First he has to ask for forgiveness.
Natural law.

[JOHN L. OPPERMAN]

FORGIVEN for pushing the outright decimation of HOW many fellow beings???
Not just No but HELL NO!!!
He has pushed this criminality in his too cutsie ways in writing and on air for years, and is a toe sucking ignorant liar.
Now that the US public is finally waking up, he's scrambling to catch up.
I'll "forgive" him when those slaughtered do.
~JOHN L.