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Tom Friedman Sees Metro As Metaphor For …

by Ken Layne

3:58 pm December 20, 2009

The Metro and the Olive-Head.
We guess New York Times op-ed satirist Thomas Friedman went so broke with the collapse of his wife’s shopping-center fortune that now he’s forced to ride the Metro like a common poor person who doesn’t even understand how playing golf in China explains the miraculous way KFC and Taco Bell often share the same building in an Arizona mini-mall. The world is … dumb? Yes, dumb. Thanks to Wonkette Operative “Chris” for taking this shocking photograph and sharing it with the entire globalized world community.

{ 48 comments }

Neilist December 20, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Where are his HANDS? If there’s a snowball in those hands, I’m shooting!

chitrade December 20, 2009 at 4:15 pm

Maybe his license was revoked, or his registration expired .. “The Lexus and the DMV”

Maybe the “Earth Race” is really a giant round-the-world rally, like “Wacky Races”, and this is the part on the DC Metro.

Is he really Dick Dastardly?

Cinderella Boy December 20, 2009 at 4:27 pm

I can’t wait for Taibbi to deconstruct this photo in a hilarious, brilliant, smug manner.

Edywin December 20, 2009 at 4:30 pm

Hairstyle provided by the “Hot Crowded and Flat” hair enhancement store.

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 4:31 pm

The next six stops will be critical for his metro-riding experience.

Edywin December 20, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Remarkably the highlighting is in the shape of my ex wife’s vagy part. So THAT’S what she was hiding in there!

Paul Tardy December 20, 2009 at 4:35 pm

I always fantasized that a journalist for a top shelf organization who shilled for war, war, and more war would have like a massive swiss bank account. Could it be they were actually doing that for nothing?

But then again it looks like the shopping center fortune was restored. Yeah Federal Reserve!!!!

wife’s shopping-center fortune

Mad Brahms December 20, 2009 at 4:36 pm

[re=482611]Edywin[/re]: If your wife birthed Friedman, she’s got a poison womb.

It’s a shame the Noonster doesn’t ride the Metro, or we might have an Idiot Columnist meet-up. They could share stories about how seeing Mexicans relates to, uh, yeah.

chascates December 20, 2009 at 5:09 pm

[re=482613]Mad Brahms[/re]: I see Peggy Noonan riding the bus as an over-the-top comedy vehicle for Goldie Hawn or Jane Fonda. She’d first board and ask for something nice in first class, maybe close to the bar.

Yellow Cake December 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Maybe he couldn’t get his snowbound gas-guzzler out of the extra-long driveway of his palatial suburban mc-mansion.

Scandalabra December 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm

This post could be used as a handy, all purpose illustration of the word, “esoteric”.

memzilla December 20, 2009 at 5:38 pm

If he’s photographed not wearing a hat, can we still call him an asshat?

Way Cool Larry December 20, 2009 at 5:38 pm

At least, blessedly, he won’t be getting any more words of wisdom from taxicab drivers. Now, will it be from fellow metro riders? Or will he be too embarrassed to admit this in a column?

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 5:42 pm

[re=482620]Yellow Cake[/re]: I thought he could just slide down the pole to the secret cave, and hop in the rocket helicopter. Perhaps he only does that when the mayor calls on the “Friedman Phone” or flashes the “Friedman Signal”.

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 5:43 pm

[re=482622]memzilla[/re]: I don’t see a hole in the top of his head, but he’s still a douchenozzle as far as I’m concerned.

Oldskool December 20, 2009 at 5:44 pm

It looks like his cheeks are full of acrons or sumthin. Times really are tough I guess.

rocktonsammy December 20, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Hope those thugs didn’t steal his wallet.

proudgrampa December 20, 2009 at 5:52 pm

Who is Thomas Friedman?

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 6:01 pm

[re=482630]proudgrampa[/re]: Thomas Friedman is a douchenozzle who writes for the NY Times. Now, I want to know what a metaphor is. It sounds french, and probably illegal.

Mustang December 20, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Hey, how are you guys doing out there? We’re laughing at how people were just driving down the highway and stopped, just stopped without pulling over so the snowpow can’t get thru. This would be nothing here in Montana. We would put on our flip flops and walk to the beach and go swimming if we got ONLY two feet of snow. Kidding. We’d freak out a tiny bit. Like for a second. Those U.S. senators there should declare a disaster so you can get assistance and buy whiskey. Healthcare my ass! What good is healthcare when you’re up to your butt in snow? Thinking of you!

Mustang December 20, 2009 at 6:29 pm

[re=482630]proudgrampa[/re]: He’s the most liberalest liberal ever.

user-of-owls December 20, 2009 at 6:38 pm

[re=482634]Mustang[/re]:

Burned all my health care, what good is health care?
It won’t help me survive
My chest is aching, burns like a furnace
the burning keeps me alive

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no cloture
this ain’t no fooling around

gurukalehuru December 20, 2009 at 6:40 pm

[re=482631]Sparky McGruff[/re]: The question is not what a metaphor is, but what is a meta FOR?

Also, kudos to the editors. Despite the lack of a Peggy Noonan commentary, this has been a fairly busy weekend Wonkette.

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm

[re=482638]gurukalehuru[/re]: I drove a 1972 Meta when I was in high school, until the transmission burned out.

Extemporanus December 20, 2009 at 7:22 pm

I was on a Paris train; I emerged in London rain, and he was waiting there, swimming through analogies.

I remember searching for the perfect words. I was hoping he might change his mind.

He wore white, smiling as he took my hand. So removed, we spoke of wintertime in France. Units passed with shallow words; years have passed, and still the hurt.

I remember the op-ed wrinkled in my hand: “Well…Suck. On. This.” filled my eyes. I remember a night we walked along the Seine, riding on the Metro.

102415 December 20, 2009 at 7:24 pm

[re=482604]Neilist[/re]: Okay.It seems fair to me.

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 7:30 pm

[re=482643]102415[/re]: [re=482604]Neilist[/re]: You have to assume there’s a snowball there, and shoot. Afterwards, you can blame it on bad intelligence. It worked for Bush, so there’s precedent.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 20, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Dude on the right is totally getting a bj. I’ve seen that facial expression on many a porn star. So why isn’t Tommy watching the bj? I would be.

x111e7thst December 20, 2009 at 7:52 pm

[re=482622]memzilla[/re]: Hatless asshat. It’s a Zen thing.

Master Unmon said: “The world is full of asses and hats. Why do you put on your robes at the sight of an asshat?”

But also:

Unmon said: “I do not ask you about asses. But what about asshats? Come, say a word about this!” Since none of the monks answered, he answered for them: “Though hatless is he not an asshat”?

x111e7thst December 20, 2009 at 7:54 pm

[re=482645]Sparky McGruff[/re]: Too true. We live in a post 9/11 world.

trondant December 20, 2009 at 8:04 pm

OT – Ha ha ha – Senator Pampers is now on the Senate floor discussing his inability to “digest” the latest iteration of their bill.

NJB December 20, 2009 at 8:18 pm

I wonder if his lips move when he Twitters.

Hedley Lamar December 20, 2009 at 8:25 pm

[re=482626]Sparky McGruff[/re]: I’m pretty sure his fontanelle never closed, however.

Darkness December 20, 2009 at 8:49 pm

[re=482638]gurukalehuru[/re]: We can call these posts “Snowstorm Babies” then.

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 20, 2009 at 8:59 pm

[re=482651]trondant[/re]: Which one is Senator Pampers, again? Pity that description would match so many, hop over into the House, and describe even more there, starting with Rep. Boner.

Lee Hussein Oswald December 20, 2009 at 9:19 pm

[re=482625]Sparky McGruff[/re]: I asssumed he would do a pole dance. WHERE’S THE JOURNALISM? DOESN’T HE WANT TO BE THE STORY?

Lee Hussein Oswald December 20, 2009 at 9:20 pm

[re=482660]Lee Hussein Oswald[/re]: whoops. too many esses.

trondant December 20, 2009 at 10:25 pm

[re=482658]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Vitter the shitter, of course. Boner is the Oompa-Loompa from Ohio. I’m hoping the 10% tax on tanning beds in the current Senate bill was included just to fuck with him.

Sparky McGruff December 20, 2009 at 10:44 pm

[re=482658]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Pampers would refer to the “honorable” David Vitter, who apparently likes to have prostitutes who look just like his wife smack him around while he wears diapers. You know, just like Jesus did. Party of Family Values and all that.

lulzmonger December 20, 2009 at 11:16 pm

You know who ELSE had a moustache & a greasy forelock like that & rode the Metro?

Your mom.

trondant December 21, 2009 at 12:00 am

AXELROD IS NOT MY MOM!

TGY December 21, 2009 at 6:36 am

How many Frieman Units does it take to get to work?

I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO December 21, 2009 at 10:02 am

[re=482675]trondant[/re]: [re=482684]Sparky McGruff[/re]: You know, the image of some hooker wiping the doodies from his ass crack I think made me mentally block all diaper references to US Senators.

Thank you, I am not re-injured mentally.

ioksotot23 December 21, 2009 at 11:09 am

Why is John Leguizamo laughing at him?

S.Luggo December 21, 2009 at 11:50 am

Tom’s plotting the overthrow of the Caliphate. Work, work, work.

Mr Blifil December 21, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Why is he staring at his penis so hard?

Suds McKenzie December 21, 2009 at 1:20 pm

[re=482604]Neilist[/re]: shot angle please

OrangeAlert December 21, 2009 at 6:03 pm

“Please stand clear of the doors…Please stand clear of the doors…Suck on this. Thank You.”

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