Our gnosh pit turns its lonely eyes to you! You’ve not shared a conversation with Jim Lehrer at your website for years. Your last New York Times column posted at the NYT web site was May 28, 2007, and I understand from the talk in the hood that you’re busy writing a new book which I hope will arrive just after the next Dem convention. It will make good eye-wash, I’m sure, and your inevitable appearance on the Charlie Rose Show (make it TWO; one is never enough) will be easy on the ears; provoking to all who don’t believe the earth is flat.
I can’t believe that no competent journalist or “columnunist” (as the flat earthers might say) has spent serious time in Iraq over the past several months. John Burns is safer where he is in London, having earned his respite after years of immersion in that gritty purgatory, but no one with his credibility or talent has taken his place over there. The rest of our country may have chosen to regard that ghastly travesty as two brats throwing mud at each other in a distant corner of a distant back yard, Tom Friedman, but I do not, and I do not believe you do. Where’s Martha Radditz? At the White House now. She earned her reward if she regards it as that. As long as there’s germicide for her hands and feet when leaving that foggy morgue of hopes, I’m glad she’s safer with less gunfire, though the wanton ravishing of Truth is about the same.
We need you to reawaken caring legal citizens of these United States of America (and the world) who vaguely remember you and still sincerely await your wisdom.
In the meantime, I’m finding a lot to like about E.J. Dion in the local State Journal-Register. Same goes for Donna Brazille who is a surprise and delight. I miss Maureen Dowd, thougth Matthew does a fine job on This Week Sundays. Where are YOU hiding Maureen — in the Halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli? You’re every bit as hip as the other Dowd, and you do more with your smile and acerbic wit than Matt does with his Friedmanesque urbanity.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not whining over the state of the journalism. As long as any of our brave men and women die for a lie, I feel a shame for my nation that knows no amelioration. I know Rudolph He…….. make that #43 turns a deaf eye to you, others of his ilk may be smarter. You can never tell. But I can tell you without your voice on the page and in the air, some good folks will forget . . . . . or get sidetracked in pettiness. That would be a shame Tom, and do you know why?
That’s how wars get started.
Live long . . . . . . . and proper.
Another excellent post.
Annie O.
Muchas danken, madame!