The Flat Head of the World is at it again - Steyn, Miller mock Thomas Friedman's China obsession

Steyn, Miller mock Thomas Friedman's China obsession [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller
  08/08/2012  

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has a well-documented fascination with China’s authoritarian means the nation uses to run its economy and govern its people. But Friedman’s appreciation for benevolent authoritarianism is dangerous, National Review columnist Mark Steyn said Wednesday.

On Dennis Miller’s radio program, Steyn gave his best effort to explain the logic behind Freidman’s theory on governance, which is predicated on a distrust on the citizenry to elect the right people.
“I think it’s not so odd because Friedman succumbs nakedly to the totalitarian temptation,” Steyn said. “In other words, every so often he writes these columns and he’s supposedly the most influential in-house thinker at the New York Times saying, ‘China — sometimes if you have benevolent authoritarianism, you can do the things that need to be done,’ which as he sees it is banning the plastic bag.

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