Yes, I want to second the call for a similar exposure of David Brooks' wretchedness! Many of us in the blogosphere regularly hold our heads and moan at his hypocritical, skewed, self-serving columns for the NYT. Seeing someone systematically expose Brooks' vacuousness would be highly satisfying!

Verso published my book Strength of the Pack in 2004.  It has been making money for them ever since, but they refuse to pay me my royalties for 2010 and 2011.  Jake Stevens promised me statements and money in March, then April, but has gone back on his word time after time.  Are any other Verso writers having this problem?  Stevens won't even answer my emails.

Thomas Friedman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, where he has worked since 1981. He has been their foreign affairs columnist since 1995, and has written The World is Flat and other best-sellers.   This excellent book by journalist Bélen Fernández dissects Friedman’s writings on economic matters, the Arab world and the special relationship between the USA and Israel. She details his writings and compares what he writes one day with what he writes on another. She also compares his opinions with the facts. Using these straightforward methods, she proves him a fraud and a fool.   For example, in an article on Ireland’s economy, Friedman claims, “the easier it is to fire people, the more willing companies are to hire people.” Fernández points out, “Actually, the easier it is to fire people, the easier it is for Dell to close its manufacturing center in Limerick, lay off 1,900 employees, and transfer major operations to Poland in 2009, invalidating do-it-yourself guides by New York Times columnists on how to ‘become one of the richest countries in Europe’ through globalization.”   Friedman stated, “because of all the tax revenue and employment the global companies are generating in Ireland, Dublin has been able to increase spending on health care, schools and infrastructure.” In the real world, the government’s investment in education was falling and it was piling up huge debt.   He reduces politics and economics to emotions, for example, the Arab, or ‘Ahmed’ as he writes, is always ‘angry’. Rather than analyse a country he tells a story about someone he met there.   Over and again, Fernández exposes Friedman as inaccurate, inconsistent and downright stupid, a muddlehead whose self-deception makes him a sower of deception and confusion.   In sum, Friedman has the brains and morals of Private Eye’s Glenda Slag. Fernández concludes that Friedman’s writings amount to ‘warmongering apologetics on behalf of empire and capital’.  

“the easier it is to fire people, the more willing companies are to hire people.”
Sounds like a compelling hypothesis to me. I'm just an economist so what do I know.  It is unfortunate Fernandez chose this example.
Otherwise Friedman's is a clown.  A clown with a taste for ethnic-cleansing.