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David Brooks: Donald Trump's "Bigotry" Has "Done Enormous Damage To America's Reputation Abroad"
RealClearPolitics ^ | December 12, 2015

Posted on 12/12/2015 10:45:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

PBS: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's comments on banning Muslims from entering the U.S., a campaign surge for Sen. Ted Cruz, plus assessing Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s first month on the job.

Brooks says Republican Senators would rather vote for a Democratic Majority Leader than "universally unpopular" Ted Cruz.

JUDY WOODRUFF, PBS NEWSHOUR: When it comes to Trump, David, I know we have been talking about him, but this week, with the statement about keeping Muslims out of the country, is this just more of the same of what we have been hearing from Donald Trump, or are we hearing something at a completely new level?

DAVID BROOKS: I think it’s a different level.

The man is a genius for attention, an addict of attention, and therefore a genius of getting it. And so this I think is a different level for a couple of reasons. First, it is bigotry of a naked sort. The Mexican stuff was bigotry, too, but this strikes me as a higher level.

Second, an offense against religious liberty. And, third, because of the way Trump has now risen to prominence, it has reverberations around the globe, in the way the stuff even he said earlier about Latin Americans didn’t...

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To: Beer30

Okay. Thanks for you point of view.


41 posted on 12/12/2015 11:52:42 PM PST by RedHeeler
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To: RedHeeler

Cat got your tongue?


42 posted on 12/12/2015 11:54:43 PM PST by Beer30
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

saw a bit of SNL “news”. The black guy was calling Trump racist. Then showed pictures of Trump with various Black celebs and implied those Blacks aren’t good enough cause no one else would want to be around them. Now thats a racist statement. He knows the minds of Black people?

SNL isn’t funny. Trump should have never appeared on it.


43 posted on 12/13/2015 12:01:21 AM PST by RginTN
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To: Billthedrill
People, as we heard earlier in the program, are scared about terrorism. Secondly, there has been a pent-up, silent frustration about political correctness. So anybody who says something politically completely incorrect, and properly incorrect, for some people, that’s like a liberation. It’s, finally, somebody’s saying the truth.

In other words, David, he's addressing a legitimate issue and he's telling the truth.

But he's not supposed to do that...???

44 posted on 12/13/2015 12:05:42 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media .IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

Truth is hard.


45 posted on 12/13/2015 12:07:23 AM PST by Beer30
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Geee, how horrible!
Let’s make ourselves more popular in Krapistan!!!

But, how to do it?
Obama gives them billions and billions of dollars.
Obama gives them tons and tons of wonderful weapons they can use against us.
Obama gives them military training, too.
Obama uses our USAF and USN to protect rheir nuclear bomb-making factories (also their ICBM factories so they will be able to deliver their nukes to America easier).
Obama gives speeches all the time about how wonderful is Allah, Islam, and Mohammad. And, all about the terrriffic contributions Moslems have made to America throughout our history.
Obama brings their young military-aged men to America, provides them all kinds of special relocation and welfare assistance enabling them to better spy out our “soft targets” for Allah.
Obama has crippled our military defenses.
Obama has crippled our border and immigration services.
Obama is now bringing them into cities, towns, and villages from Sea to Shining Sea, in great big unmarked vehicles.
All of the above with our generous American taxpayers’ money.
Obama has Christianity and Jewish faith under siege in America and insofar as he’s able, around the world. Where he can’t directly undermine the Church, he gives more of his wonderful speeches against her and her teachings (while continuing to extol Islam as so beautiful and terrriffic).
And, every time the great Warriors of Allah carry out another of their brave, “audacious” terror attacks against us, Obama tries to cover it up as just a “workplace incident” or maybe what, minor spat at the quilting bee?

Gee, come to think on it.....what more could we possibly do for the great warriors of Allah ... to make ourselves even better liked?

OH I got it, let’s cancel our elections and leave Obama in our White House “for life!”

/s


46 posted on 12/13/2015 12:22:12 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Diff tween D's and R's is that the D's allow the poor to be corrupt, too. (O. Levant))
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To: SaveFerris

He can’t really criticize hm sartorially, so he goes after this penny ante stuff.


47 posted on 12/13/2015 1:01:56 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term governors)
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To: Billthedrill

I don’t know how to copy and paste a tweet, but DT just called out the Saudis for not taking any Syrian refugees.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/tweets


48 posted on 12/13/2015 1:19:30 AM PST by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

That’s kind of what I figured.

I can’t wait either!


49 posted on 12/13/2015 1:23:15 AM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What possible harm can he inflict on the rest of the world that Obama hasn't? Possibly cut funding for the study of Indonesian transgendered sexually transmitted diseases among youth which leave the victim's ears big as handlebars from hang-on rodeo rumping?

Yeah............I guess some harm is good in a Dickens sort of way?

50 posted on 12/13/2015 1:27:06 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We have posters here of similar mindset they just hold it back


51 posted on 12/13/2015 1:30:54 AM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But what about his pants (the crease, specifically)?


52 posted on 12/13/2015 1:53:50 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was this bonehead Brooks one of the masses of leftist writers who claimed that electing Obama would make the world, and especially the muslim world, love the USA again?

Mark


53 posted on 12/13/2015 1:55:42 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

David Brooks? THE David Brooks who can’t remember which side of the fence he is on? That David Brooks?


54 posted on 12/13/2015 4:46:08 AM PST by abclily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For those who have relatives abroad, what becomes clear is that what’s changed is the trust and respect other nations had for our prosperity, opportunity, innovation and advancements, and our freedom. They see us as declining, because we are - and people like Brooks are part of the reason for this decline.


55 posted on 12/13/2015 5:08:48 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: EinNYC
"And yet some of them are old enough to vote! Scary!"

The progressive stranglehold on education has produced exactly the type of citizenry it was intended to.

There can be no voting our way out of the mess we find ourselves in.

56 posted on 12/13/2015 5:40:01 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Brooks and Shield have been saying Trump is a loser from Day one. They really hate him and it shows.


57 posted on 12/13/2015 5:57:54 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama’s abject cowardice, incompetence, and corruption have done far worse.


58 posted on 12/13/2015 6:03:19 AM PST by IronJack
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant," Brooks says, "and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president."

I said it. About Hussein.

59 posted on 12/13/2015 6:07:06 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: IronJack
"I remember distinctly an image of-we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant," Brooks says, "and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president."

I said it. About Hussein.

60 posted on 12/13/2015 6:08:44 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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