McSame Gets To See The Friedman Unit

Steve Benen notes Tommy Boy thinks McSame is a doodoohead.

It’s probably safe to say John McCain is losing the NYT’s Thomas Friedman.

Oh reeeeeeeeeeally?

Despite McCain’s negligence, he’s running TV ads during the Olympics, showing a wind farm full of spinning turbines, the exact same energy McCain would not vote to support.

Without directly using McCain’s name, this led Friedman to suggest a certain candidate “cynical,” and thinks “Americans are so stupid — so bloody stupid — that if you just show them wind turbines in your Olympics ad they’ll actually think you showed up and voted for such renewable power — when you didn’t.”

Friedman isn’t always my cup of tea when it comes to foreign policy, but I can’t help but notice that when it comes to energy policy, the NYT columnist seems very unimpressed with the presumptive Republican nominee.

And there's actually several indications that Friedman has a long time problem with McSame's "Energy Policy".

Today, Friedman hammered McCain on his negligence on alternative energy. In July, Friedman mocked him and his party for his coastal drilling canard.

You'd think Friedman would like that.

And in April, Friedman excoriated McCain (and, in this case, Hillary Clinton) for the ridiculous notion of a “gas-tax holiday” over the summer months.

Note how McSame's dropped that from his platform, too. Sit and spin Johnny Boy, sit and spin.