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From BTCNews (where I've been chatting it up a little bit).

Tom Friedman: the left’s “guru on foreign policy?�

Rush Limbaugh announced yesterday that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman is the “foreign policy guru� of the left. Limbaugh’s coronation of Friedman was occasioned by an interview on Iraq Friedman gave to ABC’s “Good Morning America� yesterday morning which was brought to my attention by a reader.

Friedman, of course, has been mocked unmercifully during the past three years by almost everyone who could pass Limbaugh’s lefty litmus test, including me (most recently here and here; for a more comprehensive assessment of his credibility among those to the left of Limbaugh, click here). His various positions on the invasion of Iraq have ranged from delusional to flat out insane.

Of course anyone that knows me or the Left for that matter will see what kind of strawman it is to present Tom Friedman as the "Guru". His presense on the map of the left is brief, his analysis is shallow, and his influence is minor. Without a doubt when we (the Left that is, not a Right Wing mouthpiece) talk Guru names like Noam Chomsky pop up first. Duh. So while Rush pops up this strawman, it makes me wonder that perhaps this is some right wing meme that will re-appear over the rest of the year as the radical Right tries to grasp at straws, I mean maintain a little bit of control after the mid-term elections.