This guy can't let it rest. He just sent me a couple of articles that were critical of Giuliani. I have a feeling that they like to think of themselves as fearless pursuers of the Truth, no matter the contrary evidence. My reply back to him:
If you were so dead-set opposed to Giuliani's racism, why in hell would you write an article like the one you wrote today? I ask this sincerely because I did spot some articles in Lexis-Nexis that were of the character you sent me. Why would you call attention to the fact that these poor black men smelled? It never fails to amaze me how you can find such a split personality among the Timesmen. Thomas Friedman will spend 3 years promoting unregulated capitalist growth and then turn around and decide that the environment is under serious threat from exactly the market forces he was hailing. Do you guys have any underlying principles? Did you just wake up yesterday and decide to write a column on squeegee men that was a lame attempt at a David Letterman joke? As somebody who has been reading the NY Times since 1955, you remain unfathomable to me and to many other critical-minded readers as well, I'm sure.
