Tom Friedman: Foolish Consistency Is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds

I think Emerson's above comment must refer to the NY Times Tom Friedman. I have said it once, twice, thrice and I will say it again: Tom Friedman is a pompous pontificating pundit who is simply always wrong. compare these 2 Tom gems:

"And, as we sit here today, the popular trend is not with the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, what makes the uprising here [in Egypt] so impressive--and in that sense so dangerous to other autocracies in the region--is precisely the fact that it is not owned by, and was not inspired by, the Muslim Brotherhood."--Thomas Friedman, New York Times website, Feb. 13

"The fact that the Muslim Brotherhood and the even more fundamentalist Salafist Nour Party have garnered some 65 percent of the votes in the first round of Egypt's free parliamentary elections since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak should hardly come as a surprise. Given the way that the military regimes in the Arab world decimated all independent secular political parties over the last 50 years, there is little chance of any Arab country going from Mubarak to Jefferson without going through some Khomeini."--Friedman, New York Times, Dec. 7

(Hat Tip: Morton L.)