Matt Taibbi is a National Treasure

And his devastating take-down of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is one of many jewels that drip from his mouth.

A sample:

My initial answer to that is that Friedman’s language choices over the years have been highly revealing: When a man who thinks you need to break a vase to get the water out of it starts arguing that you need to invade a country in order to change the minds of its people, you might want to start paying attention to how his approach to the vase problem worked out.

Brilliant.