Barrett:

It's great -- and I've forwarded it to our resident "Well, as Thomas F says..." idiot.

I don't read Friedman enough to have an opinion -- I prefer Krugman, whom I don't understand but find reassuring and he has a beard -- but the people who cite TF are enough to alarm me.

Have you checked the VF website? This is the most popular article.

And have you seen the hatchet job that Jon Stewart did on CNBC? You guys should start a "deflate the talking heads" movement. All this makes Obama's "well, I screwed up" concession even more remarkable.

Well done. I've read that he's thin-skinned. I wonder if you'll hear from him.

Chuck

Charles Marsh, Ph.D.
William Allen White Foundation Professor
Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communications
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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-----Original Message-----
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 3/5/2009 8:26 PM
To: Marsh, Charles
Subject: Vanity Fair piece
 
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/03/friedmans-follies.html