Georges Sorel Tom Friedman on Meet the Press, from a reader:

Jonah,
Tom Friedman on Meet The Press:
“If climate change is a hoax, it’s the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the United States of America. Because everything we would do to get ready for climate change; to build this new green industry, would make us more respected, more entrepreneurial, more competitive, more heathy as a country.” Notice the context of the word “greatest”. He uses “greatest” not as
a way to describe the effectiveness of the hoax’s ability to trick the
public, but, as a way to describe how beneficial the hoax/lie would be
for the country.