Open Letter from Friedman's Would-be Editor
Mike Taibbi of the NYPress spews vitrol on Tom Friedman, the NYT's maven of middle east affairs, for high crimes against the English language. The charge? Mixing metaphors like fish in a barrel of monkeys. I don't know how I feel about this one. Its kinda funny, kinda mean spirited, kinda not funny or clever enough to nail the angry-literary-guy schtick, but amusing nonetheless. Taibbi's ex-addict-holding-the-editorial-line bit reads like a Hunter S. Thompson rant, if the old gonzo had been chained to an Aeron chair and forced to edit Convenience Store News for thirty or so years.