Thomas Friedman Author and journalist, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, columnist for The New York Times.
“Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart.”
Source: Useful Idiots -- How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First, by Mona Charen, paper-back edition, 2004, page 245. Hardcopy: Copy of page 245 from Charen's book. Where: In a The New York Times column. When: April 2000. Contributor: AIM. Category: Communism