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Would The New York Times's far too heavily promoted columnist Thomas Friedman please stop telling us to stop wasting energy even as he bloviates from his 11,000-square-foot mansion in Potomac, Md., between innumerable flights around the world first class.

Besides his high pay, open-ended expense account and book royalties boosted by The Times's relentless marketing of the often wrong World's Greatest Expert, being married to a member of a billionaire mall operator's family doesn't hurt his life style, extremely energy-wasteful since The Times's promotion department decided to turn him into a celebrity in the '90s.

The rest of The Times's staff gets shorted to promote Friedman the Globalizer Inc.

He's like those senators in Washington who talk up the energy crisis and
the needs of the poor while using vast amounts of energy at their multiple mansions and giving tiny amounts to charity. (Hello, Senator Kerry!)

Then there's former Vice President Al Gore, famous for his Nashville mansion and love of SUV travel, who, like Senator Kerry, also gave minuscule amounts to charity -- until he started to make a lot from his anti-global-warming business and then (commendably) gave some of that to his anti-global-warming charity, which, in turn, has helped build up his anti-global-warming business...

Global warming has very, very, very good to Al Gore's bank account!

Meanwhile, he continues to have a carbon footprint perhaps 20 times that of the average person whom he lectures to cut back on energy use.

Personal behavior isn't public policy, but it would be nice if there were at least some small connection between them.

 Tags  Al Gore John Kerry Thomas Friedman

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weatherman said:

Like Al Gore who tells everyone to drive less, turn down the thermostat, Tom Friedman is taking himself too seriously.

That's what comes from having too much time on your hands and believing your own press releases...

Save energy, sell a house and a few cars tom.

Link | March 12, 2009 8:31 AM
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