NY Sun Claims Tom Friedman Physically Attacked Lawyer at Lecture

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Lawyer Claims Friedman Fracas ‘HE HAD FIRE IN HIS EYES’ By JACOB GERSHMAN Staff Reporter of the Sun


New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has been pushing Israel to make peace with the Palestinian Arabs. He may have taken things a bit far at a recent dinner in New York City.
A Manhattan lawyer says Mr. Friedman shoved him into a small crowd of people and cursed at him,apparently angry over comments the lawyer had made to the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Mr. Friedman — a columnist for the Times since 1995, best-selling author, and more recently a documentary filmmaker for the Discovery Channel — did not respond to calls yesterday asking for comment.

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Mr. Schwartz says Mr. Friedman shouted an expletive and then “thumped” him with the palm of his right hand against the shoulder of his double-breasted navy-blue suit. He said the columnist then delivered a more forceful blow against his shoulder, driving him backward about three feet and into the backs of several other people. The second shove, he said, had much more of a “follow-through.”

more: http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2003/12/10&ID=Ar00104

Has anyone else heard about this?

[TacticalPeek]

1. Somebody hates somebody's freedom.

Time out for both sides.

[RBHam]

2. Tom needs to smoke a big fat doobie, chill, brew some green tea

Get in touch with his chakra points...

[legin]

3. Gosh !!

It almost sounds like Friedman was in the right place, doing the right thing for about the first time in his life.

I ought really to give him some credit for it.

I'll delete one of the f-words in the next post I make about one of his grotty articles. That seems fair to me.

[legin]

4. He's still a lowlife fucking weasel though

next post, I promise. :evilgrin: