Paul Farhi’s Turn to Be An Absurdist
Paul Farhi, a Washington Post staff writer, took on the Winter Olympics yesterday in as shortsighted, ignorant, mean-spirited and just plain stupid an article as I’ve read in . . . I don’t know, quite a while anyway; "Where the Rich and Elite Meet to Compete."
I can’t remember the last time I took off after an editorial piece, but this one made me steam. It would have to be termed editorial, it’s certainly not journalism. Farhi charges the Winter Games practice
Elitism (not enough representatives from the hot and deserty parts of the world)
Exclusion (where are Tonga, Paraguay and Burundi?)
The triumph of the world's sporting haves over its have-nots (unforgivably, some have snow and some have-not snow)
But Paul is so far off-track that I really had to do a double-take to make sure his piece wasn’t something from The Onion, slipped into the Sunday Outlook section of the Post, just to see if we were paying attention.
Not one to waste printers-ink, Paul tees off as follows in the second parag…