Tom Friedman Goes on PBS to Once Again Explore His Extreme Envy of Red China
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is asked to appear in all the liberal salons, including the rarefied air of the Charlie Rose show on PBS in the late hours, where few Republicans appear. On Wednesday (after his appearance on CNN), he and his co-author Michael Mandelbaum (a foreign policy adviser to Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign) came to promote their new book That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Rose and Friedman once again discussed how inferior American politics is to communist China, which naturally knows how to get things done…with such authoritarian panache. Friedman talked up how we feel weak, like when we couldn't have a Minnesota Vikings game when the Metrodome roof collapsed. We'd say “if this were China, they would have walked to the game in the snow, and doing calculus along the way.” CHARLIE ROSE:
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on September 9, 2011. Filed under