NY Times Friedman bashes pesky Americans to esteemed audience in Taiwan

• NY Times' Tom Friedman joins the global fun bashing America while in a foreign country. An easy way to make a buck today is
• pander to a foreign country by saying America is really a bad place:

(Taipei Times): "Citing his book Hot, Flat and Crowded,"...

• Flat is Friedman’s metaphor for a world in which more and more people can live a
• middle-class American lifestyle, have their jobs and drive their cars.

“I’m gonna tell you a secret. Don’t let anybody else know,” he said.

• “There are too many Americans in the world today.”"...

from Taipei Times, 1/12/10, "Taiwan to join fight to save world," via Northwardho.blogspot.com, via Tom Nelson

• Certainly Friedman doesn't view himself as an extraneous American? I didn't think so.

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