Who the hell cares what Brooks has to say? Trump beat Hillary!
Posted on 03/18/2018 5:11:43 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
PBS NEWSHOUR: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s firing amid a wave of rumors about a wider Cabinet shakeup, Pennsylvania’s stunning election upset and Sen. Jeff Flake’s comments about 2020.
Brooks, who identifies as a conservative, lamented that Trump is "anti-system" and won't work through what he said is the "vast apparatus" in the White House.
"Trump is getting Trumpier, and the administration is getting Trumpier," Brooks said. ....
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The scribe said he has spent much time with Trump supporters in the last week and tried to rationalize why Trump "still" has a 90% approval rating among Republicans. Brooks determined that these people "have tuned in out" in regards to hirings and firings. He found that they support the administration and "like the big things about it" such as the tax bill.
Unable to process how one could support Trump, Brooks said he consistently asks "them" a line of "what about" questions.
"They have tuned it out," he said of the Trump supporter. "They support the administration. They like the big things about it, the tax bill, the deregulation, that kind of thing. And I always ask them, what about this, what about this, the things we frankly talk about a lot every week."
"It just sort of drifts by them unnoticed," Brooks observed. "And so if you want to know why he’s still got 90 percent approval roughly among Republicans, I think that’s the answer. A lot of things that would cause most people to shake their heads.
He said what Trump does just doesn't "rise to the level of consciousness" of a Trump supporter.
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I could not watch that. I'd shoot my TV.
Doesn't even matter. brookes', shields', and judy's Friday afternoon gig is nothing but DNC talking points amongst lefty head nodders.
I listen occasionally and it's become comical. They truly live in a bubble.
True. David Brooks is a fake POS acting like he is GOP. Most Trump supporters know that Brooks is a Judas who looks down on us “rube” conservatives. We got your number Davy!
I would like to ask Brooke a few “what abouts” concerning Obama and Hillary.
Well, you need to remember that Brooks is a part of that human bureaucracy that the Trump human wrecking ball has promised to knock down.
Brooks is just another brick in the democrat, deep state, news media haunted house of DC that needs smashing.
So, yes, I could not care less about what Trump is tweeting, or what porn star they’ve dug up to accuse him from “Sex is just about private business” from decades ago, as long as he destroys THEM.
THEY declared war on us years ago. Us bitter clingers, flyover folks, deplorable rednecks, whatever—we will NOT go away and let the self-described elitist betters rule us.
Because it is “chaos” to the swamp, not to the man draining it.
So this fine Conservative was cheating on his wife too. Sure, he speaks for all Repubs.
Just because you want a swingin' pair doesn't mean you got 'em.
Thank goodness Pres.Trump is “anti-system”. That “system” is what has been the problem all along & we finally got someone in there who shook it up. From the looks of things a lot more is still needed.
David Brooks is one of the biggest a$$wipes ever to sit in front of a television camera. I’m constantly amazed that he draws a paycheck for spouting the crap that spews from his mouth.
If Brooks is a conservative, then Pamela Anderson is a virgin.
Mr. Brooks and Mr. Shields:
We haven’t tuned Trump out.
We have tuned you out.
Sincerely,
Most people outside of the US urban mess
Brooks is not even close to being a Conservative.
The media is upset that we don’t accept that Trump is who they say he is. Who are you going to believe, the MSM or your own lyin’ eyes?
Brooks is just another future lamp post decoration as far as I am concerned.
Brooks has a long ways to go to reach RINO.
Who the hell cares what Brooks has to say? Trump beat Hillary!
Trump supporters have tuned out the bias of the liberal MSM for some time now. We simply ignore their ongoing ranting about this President ... they lost in November 2016 getting the biggest flip off in the history of politics in this nation.
These ‘elitist’ media prigs can’t handle it ... they were, and continue to be, scorned & ignored by conservative Americans.
The Journo Creed. (hat tip Michael Kelly)
Brooks believes President Bill Clinton. And has always believed him. Brooks believed it when Clinton said he had never been drafted in the Vietnam War and believed him later when Clinton said he had merely “forgotten to mention” that he had been drafted in the Vietnam War.
Brooks believed him when Clinton he said he hadn’t had sex with Gennifer Flowers and believed him later, when Clinton reportedly said he did bed her down.
Brooks believes the president did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom to celebrities, did not sell access to himself and the vice president to hundreds of well-heeled special pleaders and did not supervise the largest, most systematic money-laundering operation in campaign finance history, collecting more than $ 3 million in illegal and improper donations.
Brooks believes that Charlie Trie and James Riady were motivated by nothing but patriotism for their adopted country.
Brooks believed President Clinton when he conceded that his administration mistakenly obtained the FBI files of more than 300 people, including many top Republicans and believes it was the result of a “completely honest bureaucratic snafu” involving security clearances.
Brooks believed Clinton’s chief of staff, Leon Panetta, when he told reporters that “obviously a mistake was made” and apologized to the people whose FBI files wound up at the White House. Hollywood believed Clinton when he said “I completely support” what my COS Panetta said about the affair.
Brooks believed Vice President Gore when he said that he had made dunning calls to political contributors “on a few occasions” from his White House office, and believed him when he said that, actually, “a few” meant 46.
Brooks devoutly believes in no controlling legal authority....but not for Nixon or Trump.
Brooks believed Bruce Babbitt when he said that the $286,000 contributed to the DNC by Indian tribes opposed to granting a casino license to rival tribes had nothing to do with his denial of the license. Brooks believed the secretary when he said that he had not been instructed in this matter by then-White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes.
Brooks believed him when he said later that he had told lobbyist and friend Paul Eckstein that Ickes had told him to move on the casino decision, but that he had been lying to Eckstein. Brooks agreed with the secretary that it is an outrage that anyone would question his integrity.
Brooks firmly believes in the “Clinton Standard” of adherence to the nation’s campaign finance and bribery laws, enunciated by the president on March 7, 1997: “I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I had changed government policy solely because of a contribution.”
All of journo's accomplished wordsmiths noted with approval the use of the word “evidence” and also the use of the word “solely.” Journos believe, as Clinton does, that it is proper to change government policy to address the concerns of people who have given the president money, as long as nobody can find evidence of this being the "sole" reason.
Brooks believes president Clinton lived up to his promise to preside over the most ethical administration in American history that indicted former agriculture secretary Mike Espy did not accept $35,000 in illegal favors from Tyson Foods and other regulated businesses.
Brooks believes that indicted former housing secretary Henry Cisneros did not lie to the FBI and tell others to lie to cover up $250,000 in blackmail payments to his former mistress.
Brooks believes that convicted former associate attorney general Webster Hubbell was not involved in the obstruction of justice when the president’s minions arranged for Hubbell to receive $ 400,000 in sweetheart consulting deals at a time when he was reneging on his promise to cooperate with Kenneth Starr’s Whitewater investigation.
Brooks believes, as Harvey Weinstein does, that Paula Jones is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, that Kathleen Willey is a cheap tramp who was asking for it, and that Monica Lewinsky is a cheap tramp who was asking for it.
Brooks firmly believes Monica Lewinsky was “just fantasizing” in her 20 hours of taped conversation in which she reportedly detailed her sexual relationship with the president and begged Linda Tripp to join her in lying about the relationship and that any gifts, correspondence, telephone calls and the 37 post-employment White House visits that may have passed between Lewinsky and the president are evidence only of a platonic relationship. Journos believe that such innocent intimate friendships are quite common between middle-aged married men and young single women, and also between presidents of the United States and White House interns.
Brooks sees nothing suspicious in the report that the president’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed but before she filed an affidavit saying she had not had sex with the president.
Nor did insightful Brooks read anything significant into the fact that the ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, visited Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a job.
Wordsmith Brooks believes the instructions Lewinsky gave Linda Tripp informing her on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter simply wrote themselves.
Brooks believes, as does Hillary, that The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS and NPR are all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to malign the saintly Clintons.
Ever since I read that Quillette article by Jonathan Haidt, my way of checking for “real” conservatives is this: Do they understand why we feel the way we do? If they seem puzzled, they are not conservatives. Liberals do not understand how conservatives feel, think, or operate.
Yep, he leaves his bubble for a couple of days and explains to the rest of the bubble what we are thinking.
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