The NY Press's Matt Taibbi, who once had an obsession with NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, admits that he once called publisher Arthur Sulzberger's office "pretending to be Friedman himself, [and] screamed at Sulzberger's secretary." ("I told her that I was pissed, that "Arthur better get his car out of my fucking parking space" and that "golf this weekend [was] out of the fucking question.") Taibbi points out that Friedman seems to have an ongoing problem with metaphors: "The hallmark of the Friedman method is a single metaphor, stretched to column length, that makes no objective sense at all and is layered with other metaphors that make still less sense...When you read Friedman, you are likely to encounter such creatures as the Wildebeest of Progress and the Nurse Shark of Reaction, which in paragraph one are galloping or swimming as expected, but by the conclusion of his argument are testing the waters of public opinion with human feet and toes, or flying (with fins and hooves at the controls) a policy glider without brakes that is powered by the steady wind of George Bush's vision."
Cage match [NY Press]