See NY Times Columnist Thomas L. Friedman Bomb at ‘Jeopardy’
- Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:48am by
Billy Hallowell
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For those who got a “thrill” seeing MSNBC’s Chris Matthews bomb at “Jeopardy,” you’re in luck. On Friday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman took his turn appearing on the game show along with CNN‘s Anderson Cooper and NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell. Rather than wowing the audience with his intellect, the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner ended up coming in last place — even falling short of the $2,300 Matthews was able to win just days before.
(Related: See MSNBC‘s Chris Matthews Bomb at ‘Jeopardy’)
Newsbusters‘ Noel Sheppard provides a recap of Friedman’s first two answers, which were less than successful:
With the category “21st Century Lingo,” the answer was, “In 2011, BusinessWeek said European government bonds were this ‘poisonous’ kind of debt.”
Friedman responded, “Sub-prime.” I guess he missed the clue in quotation marks “poisonous.”
The correct response of course was “toxic.”
In the same category moments later, the answer was, “It’s the ‘tiny’ term for a person who writes short posts about one’s personal life on Tumblr or Twitter.”
Once again, the word in quotations marks was the clue, and once again Friedman missed it.
“What is a tweeter?” he replied.
Of course, the answer was “micro-blogger.”
Then, came Final Jeopardy. Going into it, Cooper, who was in first place, had a sum of $15,600. Friedman was at $8,400 and O’Donnell was in third place with only $2,000. Interestingly, Friedman wagered a whopping $7,400, O’Donnell put up $500 and Cooper only placed $1,201 on the line.
When all was said and done, none of the three answered the Final Jeopardy question correctly, thus — Friedman was left with only $1,000 (and for those inquisitive minds, the question was: “The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work ‘brought the south prosperity,’ but he was out of business within 5 years.” The answer? Eli Whitney).
Watch the spectacle, below:
(H/T: Weasel Zippers)
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Comments (71)
Volsense
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:41amIts obvious that an intelligent liberal is a misnomer.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:15amSmart people… are never as Smart… as they think they are; MENSA accounts for only a few Leaders or Rich!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:40amIt’s an oxymoron. Those words should NEVER be used in the same sentence.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:34amHighly educated certainly does not mean highly intelligent. The video was funny.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 1:02pmHe can join Matthews in the Jeopardy pseudo intellectuals Hall Of Fame. Birds of a feather…..
Report Post »FreeCarolJoy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 2:23pmYes, they seem to be bombing out a lot on that show.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:21amEducation an Intelligence are not Synonymous.
Report Post »Ever watch a Man on the street with College Students ?
Most Can’t Answer Simple Questions.
an would lose on are you smarter than a 5th grader.
TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:14amLiberals are usually purveyors of useless information but I guess in the case of Cwis Maffews and Thomas Friedman… not so much when the game is on the line.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:26amHave you ever noticed how many “overly intelligent” people have NO Common Sense?
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:10amI thought everyone in the world knew that people who used twitter are twits and twats.
Report Post »PRESENTSOFMIND
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:08amLibberalizum wurks fer me!!
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:07amI knew the Eli Whitney answer. I . of course didnt know the other answers.
Report Post »Duey2000
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 1:02pmI was just thinking the same thing. I would have got the same ones wrong that Friedman did, but I knew the Eli Whitney answer.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:02amThis is one of the problems with this country – people falling for the notion that rote memory skills equate to intelligence. It’s why liberals bamboozle themselves into believing having a degree makes you immediately qualified for any job at all. They incorrectly correlate “education” with “intelligence”.
I don’t know this Friedman character and certainly would be suspicious of his motives considering who he accepts his paycheck from, but this Jeopardy nonsense must be put out of our misery. It has very little to do with anything other than being really good at memorizing a lot of things.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:13amYou suck at Jeopardy, huh?
Report Post »Duey2000
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 1:04pmI agree. Thes Jeopardy stories are just really a way of Beck (who I usually have great respect for) to get back at the other people in the media that he doesn’t care for. Glenn, you’ve got us. We’re here. You don’t have to convince us that everybody else in MSM is a moron. We know. That is why we are on the Blaze every day…
Report Post »GoodCook
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:59amTypical Liberal… Long on talk short on knowledge!
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:02amMy thought exactly….DOH…
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:59amJust another case of a Supposedly Brillant Journalist.
Report Post »Proving they Aren’t
ddg7
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:52amHe probably doesn‘t know what a ’hooter’ is either.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:41amNo common sense!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:14amBingo! More to the point, he probably is extremely smart at one or two things and dumb as hell at the rest of life…Typical academic…
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:38amDO we really expect more from a dumb freaking Yankee that works for MSNBC ,
Report Post »he s so brainwashed with liberal garbage he s unable to think out of the box
hempstead1944
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:32amThis idiot has been “bombing” most of his professional life…..the TV show simply revealed what everyone outside New York always knew…..
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:24amProving once again… liberals = dumbbells
Report Post »Truth and Justice
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:24amSo the big intellectually elite Liberal was a total failure. Need we say more?!!
Report Post »rflemingtx
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:10am@ Billy Hallowell…No, The ANSWER was, “The National Inventors Hall of Fame said his work ‘brought the south prosperity,’ but he was out of business within 5 years.” The The QUESTION was “Who is Eli Whitney?”.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:09amIQ = Plant life +3
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:09amAll liberals and shows they are dummer than a door nails, but think they know it all. makes one smile and wonder how they are got the jobs they have.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:08amFriedman also believes the myth of man made global warming so it‘s no shocker he isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:06amFriedman really picked up as he went along. No matter how much I disagree with him politically, this story does not do his performance justice. Chris Matthews really did bomb; Friedman did not.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 9:11amHey, that is a non-partial, objective call on your part! These people are not going to want to hear that!
Better strap yourself in, this could get ugly…
Report Post »mayihelpyou
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 11:44amHe came in last with only a thousand dollars to his credit. Couldn’t have been that great of a performance.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 12:11pmMAYIHELPYOU,
I did not watch the show or even watch the clip, but I did read the story. Did you?
“Then, came Final Jeopardy. Going into it, Cooper, who was in first place, had a sum of $15,600. Friedman was at $8,400 and O’Donnell was in third place with only $2,000. Interestingly, Friedman wagered a whopping $7,400, O’Donnell put up $500 and Cooper only placed $1,201 on the line.”
Report Post »Juniemoon
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:04amExplains how Obama got a noble , be a radical, Marxist, Commie or Socialist. High IQ not needed.
Report Post »BigBadBud
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:04amI love it when supposed liberal intellectual I’m better than you types bomb miserably when it comes to basic world knowledge. They’ve been stuck in there little bubble for so long they longer can grasp reality. This is why the newspaper is going the way of the dodo bird.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:00amIQ= 3 above plant life!
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:59amIt‘s funny when libs think they’re the smartest people in the room.
Report Post »randy
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 7:54amUsed to be, any10 year old knew who Eli Whitney was.
Report Post »And these are the people spoon feeding you the news every night? LOL
teebubba
Posted on May 21, 2012 at 8:06pmI agree they all should have gotten Eli Whitney but as liberals they were not thinking of the South’s “cotton economy” but rather as a slave economy and couldn’t think of a device to enforce slavery…
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